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Apr 30, 2024 · Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-born Canadian writer and director who was known for his nuanced character studies of people in unconventional circumstances. His notable movies included Next of Kin, The Sweet Hereafter, and Felicia’s Last Journey. Learn more about Egoyan’s life and career.
Jan 8, 2024 · Atom Egoyan is a Cairo-born Canadian filmmaker of Armenian descent who broke through in the early '90s with a string of sharp and experimental dramas, including Exotica and his magnum opus, The...
Jan 18, 2012 · Atom Egoyan (born Atom Yeghoyan), CC, FRCA, writer, director, producer, artist (born 19 July 1960 in Cairo, Egypt). Atom Egoyan is one of Canada’s most acclaimed and influential filmmakers. Cerebral and unconventional, his films are often told in a non-linear style.
Jul 27, 2020 · Egoyan’s plotlines, with their shuffled timelines and accordingly unwieldy relationship to cause-and-effect dramaturgy, inspire curiosity—that most thrilling and weightless of moviegoing sensations—while also requiring completion in the viewer’s consciousness.
Jan 28, 2015 · Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has directed fourteen features, including The Adjuster (1991), Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Ararat (2002), and, most recently, The Captive (2014). He writes, “Rather than a top ten, these are ten films with which I have some sort of personal relationship. I saw them at a certain point in my life ...
Mar 17, 2003 · Published Online March 17, 2003. Last Edited March 4, 2015. If Atom Egoyan is hot stuff in the fire hall, perhaps it is official that he has finally made his mark in the mainstream. Not too many years ago, despite his popularity in Europe, Egoyan's name in North America was synonymous with cinema's art-house fringe.
Biography. Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian independent film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures.
