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	Ararat (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ararat is a 2002 film by Atom Egoyan about the Armenian Genocide, an event that is denied to this day by the government of Turkey.
		Ararat thus includes graphic sequences depicting the horrors of the genocide, but they are always framed as scenes from Saroyan's film-within-the-film.
		Furthermore, the actors and filmmakers are shown discussing the ethical problems that arise when adaptating contentious subjects into simplistic movies; for example, Elias Koteas plays Ali, a Turkish-Canadian actor who becomes increasingly uncomfortable with playing the role of an evil Turkish military officer in Saroyan's film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ararat_(movie) (557 words)

	The Battalion - 'Ararat'
		Kouyomjian said this movie is important and she encourages history students in particular to see "Ararat" because the film raises the issue of the Armenian history that has been left out of the history books.
		At the release, "Ararat" received mixed reactions ranging from "this movie was a masterpiece" to "this movie did not contribute anything to Armenian history." Some viewers thought the movie should have concentrated more on the genocide itself without bringing the other elements to the story, such as Raffi having a love affair with his stepsister.
		She said the purpose of the movie was to show the history, and not to shock the audience with violent scenes.
	www.thebatt.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=c94d39ae-4940-4202-9bd6-53260a5f46b3 (1112 words)

	ArmenianGenocidePosters.org
		» Atom Egoyan and Arsinee Khanjian at the 'Ararat' premiere http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2002/1/photos/11
		Ararat is probably as close as a film-maker has come to reconciling the conventions of commercial film with critical imperatives of history.
		'Ararat' Is Not the Genocide By Marc A. Mamigonian
	www.armeniangenocideposters.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=84 (9918 words)

	MovieFreak.com - Ararat DVD Review
		Ararat is about a tragic historical event, a country in denial and a people yearning for the truth!
		The film within Ararat recounts an almost forgotten and tragic event in history, the massacre and subsequent genocide of the Armenians in the year 1915.
		Moreover, Ararat is certainly not the film to define the event in history despite its educational value.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/a/ararat_a.htm (1297 words)

	Louisville Scene \| Movies \| Movie Review \| 'Ararat' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan reopens a bitter historical debate in "Ararat," using a film-within-a-film structure to examine the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and its effect on subsequent generations.
		Yet "Ararat" is no dry history lesson -- it's a deeply personal look at what we choose to believe, how we grieve for the dead, and what truths we admit or deny about ourselves.
		Written and directed by Egoyan, the movie takes its name from Mount Ararat, Turkey's highest summit, which is near the homeland of the slain Armenians.
	www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/reviews/2003/20030131ararat.html (580 words)

	Ararat Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		It is those issues of history, denial, and identity that form the heart of Ararat as a genocide of the 20th century is seen through the prism of the 21st.
		In Ararat's case, the movie-within-the-movie centers on the American Clarence Ussher (Bruce Greenwood), with a character based on the young Arshile Gorky added only as an afterthought.
		Ararat is among the director's best work, a rendering of the past that offers hope for the future.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=136461 (912 words)

	(OZAN-ARARAT) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The most virulent critiques with regard to the movie came from the Armenian community of Turkey, of which one of the representatives, a journalist, Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian language AGOS, which is the main Turco-Armenian communal newspaper, was present in Cannes.
		This movie could easily be labeled a 'HATE CRIME SYLLABUS' shot in Canada, for the sole purpose of teaching everyone, including the innocent minds of the children of Canada and of the rest of the world, to begin to hate Turks.
		Unfortunately, for the Armenians the Egoyan film, "ARARAT" is no longer in a position of doing that, because it has proven to be an unbelievable, dishonest story by the critics who saw it and passed their judgements on it.
	www.tallarmeniantale.com /mahmut-ararat.htm (2150 words)

	..:: STRADIGMA.com ::.. ANATOMY OF "ARARAT", ARMENIAN LOBBY'S PROPAGANDA THROUGH ART, AND THE GESTURE TO ...
		In the movie, Turkish troops put women, children and the elderly to the sword, rape women recklessly, ignite them alive and these are all shown in detail.
		The movie which constantly accents attacks on the Turkish government consists such expressions as "the government was aware, there were telegraphs and notes".
		The movie frequently repeats that the Armenians have forgotten this incident that they want to forget, that this was wrong, and that there should always be efforts to remind and get acceptance for the incident.
	www.stradigma.com /english/special/articles_02.html (2265 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Ararat" review (2002) Atom Egoyan, David Alpay, Arsinee Khanjian
		Writer-director Atom Egoyan's heartfelt passion project "Ararat" is an abstractly structured account of both the 1915-1923 Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks and the massacre's emotional reverberation in the descendants of its survivors.
		Another present day plot concerns the making of a movie about the massacre by a very dedicated director (Charles Aznavour) and screenwriter (Eric Bogosian), who hire Khanjian as a consultant when they decide to fold the story of Gorky's war-torn childhood into their plot.
		There's far more intricacy to the connections in "Ararat" than I have stamina to describe here -- for instance Alpay's girlfriend (Marie-Josée Croze) is also his step-sister, who blames his mother (the art historian) for her own father's death and frequently harasses her at public appearances.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/ararat.html (541 words)

	JTW Article - Art and Propaganda: Ararat Case Study - 2
		In the movie director Edward is an Armenian who lost most of his family in 1915 and is trying to fulfill a promise he made to his mother.
		However, the movie’s importance, for Egoyan and his associates, is not related to their expectations for high box office returns or artistic satisfaction.
		The objective and the importance of the movie cannot be understood without examining the environment from which it was born, because that environment was very sensitive.
	www.turkishweekly.net /articles.php?id=90 (6864 words)

	Ararat - Movie Review
		The titular Ararat is a big mountain in the region (and allegedly the place where Noah's Ark landed, but that's another story).
		Ararat is at its finest when our scholar is brought to the movie set and points out what's wrong with the film-within-a-film's recreation of the past.
		Most notably, Mt. Ararat isn't visible from the town where the film is based, yet a huge matte painting of Ararat looms over the set.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/ararat (1127 words)

	JoBlo's Movie Club - Reviews: Ararat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		ARARAT, the movie, is flawed yet, somehow, it manages to capture the hearts and the thoughts of its audience for so many reasons I hope I'd be able to illustrate in the following lines.
		ARARAT is not the very first artistic effort that I see on the screen about the Armenian awful suffering during the war.
		I was so reminded by it today while watching ARARAT because they mentioned how Turks would rape and kill pregnant women and then kill the infants they carry in their wombs.
	www.joblo.com /forums/showthread.php?s=3cdebaea6d042c9640877bbe7efb8ce2&threadid=40076 (1242 words)

	Ararat (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ararat is a chauvinistic story filled with religious symbolism.
		He said that he gave voice also the Turks, but there is only one Turk in the movie (Ali) who is depicted as a unrefined, cruel man.
		I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0273435 (530 words)

	Ararat
		Atom Egoyan is squeezing in one project before filming his next movie, Ararat, in the spring.
		It will be a movie within a movie focused on an 18-year-old driver for the production being filmed (a recreation of a historic battle in Armenia).
		"Ararat," described as a film within a film, is a contemporary story of the making of a historical epic about the Armenian holocaust.
	brucegreenwood.com /mov-tv/ararat/ararat-cast.htm (582 words)

	ARARAT
		Though we don't initially know it, most of Ararat is told via flashback as 18-year-old production assistant Raffi (newcomer David Alpay) is detained and questioned by a soon-to-be-retired airport security officer named David (Christopher Plummer, A Beautiful Mind) about the contents of three sealed film canisters.
		Ararat is to Egoyan what Schindler's List was to Spielberg, and I suspect there is a lot of hidden subtext in the dialogue that flew way over the heads of people who can't even find Armenia on a map.
		Ararat's acting is all solid, with Alpay — who could be Elijah Wood's double in The Lord of the Rings movies — making an impressive feature-film debut.
	www.sick-boy.com /ararat.htm (591 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - 'Ararat' Opens Toronto Festival with Party of 4,000 Guests
		She speaks Armenian, in the movie as well, and grew up knowing about the secret that the rest of the world seemed to ignore.
		The rest of their cast also partied at the exclusive VIP area at the festival upstairs looking down on the historic building and ballroom, filled with food and 34 individual bars.
		In the movie, there are scenes within scenes as a film is being made by a famed director, played by Charles Aznavour, and the making of the film involves Khanjian, playing an activist historian.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---13620,00.html (383 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Ararat \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		To use a cinematic metaphor, the main problem with "Ararat" is that it seems to be a bit out of focus.
		As a result, this Canadian drama — probably the zillionth movie over the past couple of years to feature the film-within-a-film conceit — seems a bit unsure of what it's trying to say.
		"Ararat" is rated R for graphic scenes of violence (shootings, stabbings and explosive mayhem), occasional use of strong sex-related profanity, gore, glimpses of full female nudity, drug content (drug discussion and handling of heroin and marijuana), simulated sex and a scene depicting rape and other sexual violence.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,330000197,00.html (359 words)

	LM: We should not react to the movie "Ararat", by Egemen BAGIS
		Some people name Atom Egoyanís latest movie "Ararat" as the "New Midnight Express", because the genocide allegations of the Armenians are among the multi leveled and complex story of this film.
		In the case of a few movies with well-known actors hitting the market at the same time ìAraratî premiers, the investors who expect to double their monies will be very upset.
		It would be an achievement if we could convince Disney to make a statement somewhere in the movie and explain that although the story is based on actual experiences of some witnesses, the historical aspects of the events are still being debated by historians.
	www.lightmillennium.org /winter_02/ebagis_ararat.html (566 words)

	Ararat - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		The man problem with Ararat is that instead of letting the subtlety of various characters on the fringes of the genocide story work, Egoyan can't resist hammering the genocide home to the audience.
		With Michael Danna's emotional score at crucial moments, the audience may feel as though it is in a classroom instead of a movie theater.
		It's like letting just one shoe drop and we think, "What now?" One of the inside jokes here is that in filming the movie-within-a-movie, Mount Ararat is not visible from this particular area of the country, yet the film artists painted the mountain in the background anyway.
	www.tollbooth.org /2003/movies/ararat.html (578 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'Ararat'
		To this day, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge that with the advent of World War I a well-orchestrated plan to exterminate the Armenian population of Ottoman Turkey ever took place.
		"Ararat" is, first of all, a triumph of strategy.
		"Ararat's" key figure is Ani's 18-year-old son, Raffi (newcomer David Alpay), who has been moved to go to Turkey with his video camera to make a film diary of the ruins of his ancestral homeland.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-ararat15nov15,0,5495916.story (808 words)

	Ararat Movie Review - Ararat Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		''Ararat,'' the complex and ambitious new film from writer-director Atom Egoyan, attempts to question historical oversights, reconstruct biography, delve into trauma, and challenge the shoddiness of memory - all while avoiding a collapse into propaganda.
		''Ararat'' is as rich and deep as a casserole, built out of layers of questions and ideologies.
		Large chunks of this movie are devoted to a dialogue between Raffi and David (Christopher Plummer), the Montreal customs officer who wants to know what's in the film canisters the boy is bringing back from Turkey.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=1814 (587 words)

	HyeForum > "ararat" Movie Shown In Argentina
		May 30 2003, 09:34 AM Atom Egoyan's "Ararat" was shown in Argentina a few day ago with the support of the Armenian Embassy in that country.
		Jul 11 2003, 04:32 AM "Ararat" was also shown in Greece, i think through normal distribution.
		It really is a brilliant movie that suceeds on very many levels - but of course it requries a viewer who is able to understand these - and it is very demanding in that regard.
	hyeforum.com /lofiversion/index.php?t6578.html (518 words)

	Ararat (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The name "Ararat" is mentioned four times in the Bible's original manuscripts (Gen.
		It is believed that the land of "Ararat" is the Hebrew equivalent of Urardhu, or Urartu, which was the Assyrian-Babylonian name of the Vannic or Chaldean kingdom (between the Aras River and the Tigris River).
		At the close of the seventh century B.C. the kingdom of Ararat came to an end, and the country was occupied by a people who are ancestors of the Armenians of the present day.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/ararat.html (376 words)

	Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » Ararat, Armenian Genocide, and Student Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The movie is not really about Mount Ararat, but about the Armenian genocide which took place in 1915 during World War I and is still denied by the government of Turkey.
		The movie Ararat has as its unifying theme the life of Arshile Gorky, an Armenian born near Van, Turkey, who witnessed and survived the genocide.
		Unfortunately because of its “R” rating, the movie “Ararat” is not appropriate to show to students, but there is a wealth of online resources about the Armenian genocide and the current controversy over its acknowledgment which could make for a rich and worthwhile study.
	www.speedofcreativity.org /2005/12/21/ararat-armenian-genocide-and-student-research (875 words)

	ATOM BOMBING TURKEY's DENIAL
		Ararat is really a movie about Turkish denial, and is a movie within a movie.
		Ararat, the movie, is predicted to be the biggest event since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk caused the collapse of the first Armenian Republic.
		Ararat promises to fuel interest in and activity within the Armenian community to unprecedented levels while bringing the genocide issue back to life, sending people into the library and record store in search of more about Armenia and Armenians.
	www.webspawner.com /users/araratthemoviecom (2139 words)

	Ararat
		It is difficult to know whether this film will follow in their footsteps, especially given its difficult subject matter and unusual structuring, but one thing is for sure: the accompanying music CD is well worth a listen.
		The film Ararat, so named after the famous Mount Ararat where Noah's Ark supposedly finally came to rest, is structured as both a voyage of discovery and a film-within-a-film.
		Its use in Ararat, where it has been arranged for symphony orchestra for the first time, allows Danna to make a musical link between the history and traditions of the Armenian culture, and modern life, lending the entire score an overtone of remembrance and solemnity.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /araratcd.htm (708 words)

	Amazon.com: Ararat (2004) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		All these characters, combined with the movie within the movie, intertwine in a complex yet powerfully emotional examination of memory (both cultural and personal), loyalty (to one's family, to one's heritage), creativity, and the subjectivity of truth.
		ARARAT is a very emotional movie which generates even more emotions from the viewer.
		"Ararat" is a brutal film containing recreations of Turkish atrocities, so it is definitely off limits to the kiddies, but it isn't horrific for the sake of sensationalism.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000TG9QU?v=glance (2270 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Movies - Ararat
		He told the Canadian publication MacLean's that the film "has so many issues of judgment, and what constitutes justice, that the idea of presenting it to a jury didn't sit well." The film didn't sit well with the Turkish government, either, which reportedly tried to prevent the film from being shown at all.
		A movie producer (Charles Aznavour) invites her to be a consultant on a film about the Van, a famous massacre site.
		It is a shame that Egoyan adds confusing textures to an already crowded political and personal montage, especially when the painful message of the film is so clear and simple: history is written by the victors.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2002/49257_20021204.asp (1135 words)

	Atom Egoyan’s “Ararat” Opens in Fresno
		Fresno Armenians gathered at 10AM on opening morning to watch, for the first time in Fresno, the movie “Ararat.” With their ticket stubs in hand, Armenians ranging in age from young children to elderly, some of whom were genocide survivors, proudly entered the theater for the premiere.
		Kouymjian commented on the movie stating that for Egoyan to tell this story was an extraordinary challenge.
		He related the “Ararat” to a film called “Shoah,” made by the famous French film-maker, Claude Lanzmann, who felt that it would be difficult to make a film on the Holocaust.
	armenianstudies.csufresno.edu /hye_sharzhoom/vol24/dec2002/ararat.htm (781 words)

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