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	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Four Films in Search of an Author: Atom Egoyan
		To be sure, Egoyan also maintains that his earlier films had attempted to take the same attitude toward their characters, but that he had not managed successfully to impart that attitude to his audience.
		Egoyan’s films have always struck a knife’s-edge balance between emotional authenticity and intellectual distance, the non-linear movement of the plot forcing the audience to bridge the gap between the characters’ deadened emotions and the trauma behind them.
		The growing degree to which the auteur Egoyan is bracketed in his films by the greater world — financial, historical, cultural — around him thus mirrors the inevitable loss of control to which the auteur submits when he or she emerges from a cocoon of independence into the global marketplace of contemporary cinema.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /52/egoyan.htm (9432 words)

	Atom Egoyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker of Armenian descent.
		Egoyan was born to Joseph and Shushan Yeghoyan in Cairo, Egypt.
		Egoyan is now based in Toronto, where he lives with his wife, Arsinée Khanjian, an actress who appears in many of Egoyan's films, and their son, Arshile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atom_Egoyan (353 words)

	atom on Encyclopedia.com
		ATOM [atom] [Gr.,=uncuttable (indivisible)], basic unit of matter ; more properly, the smallest unit of a chemical element having the properties of that element.
		The atom consists of a central, positively charged core, the nucleus, and negatively charged particles called electrons that are found in orbits around the nucleus.
		He held that all the atoms of an element are of exactly the same size and weight (see atomic weight) and are in these two respects unlike the atoms of any other element.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a1/atom.asp (1970 words)

	Atom Egoyan - Armeniapedia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Atom Egoyan (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker of Armenian descent.
		Egoyan was born to Joseph and Shushan Yeghoyan in Cairo, Egypt and was raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
		Egoyan is now based in Toronto, where he lives with his wife, Arsinee Khanjian, an actress who appears in many of Egoyan's films, and their son, Arshile.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Atom_Egoyan (172 words)

	Egoyan, Atom
		Recurring themes in Egoyan's work such as alienation, voyeurism and the futile pursuit of emotional fulfilment can be seen as the director's attempt to express the condition of cultural dislocation.
		Egoyan's work, personal as the motivations behind it may be, evokes profound public resonance, nationally and internationally.
		Egoyan's films all end on nearly operatic emotional epiphanies and are rooted in the romantic search for self-fulfilment through intimacy.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009049 (634 words)

	Atom Egoyan
		A sputtering automobile slowly traverses an irregular dirt road on the side of a hill towards an ancient church on the summit (in a spare and elegant long shot that evokes the opening sequence to Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia) amidst the elegiac sounds of a rhythmic, traditional chant.
		Recalling the incorporation of desolate, metaphoric landscape in Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy, Egoyan juxtaposes the serene, panoramic grandeur of the ancient churches against the detailed, often close-up and interior shots of crumbling structures and ruins that manifest the internalized turmoil and devastation of a dissolving marriage.
		Egoyan uses non-linearity as a means of exploring the process of grief.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/egoyan.html (1074 words)

	Egoyan, Atom - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Egoyan, Atom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Among his critically acclaimed, intricately structured works are Family Viewing (1987), Exotica (1994), which won the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and The Sweet Hereafter (1997), which brought him commercial as well as critical success.
		Egoyan was born in Cairo, Egypt, to Armenian refugees who emigrated to British Columbia when he was three years old.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Egoyan,+Atom (181 words)

	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.
		Egoyan is Armenian-Canadian, and as one of the few well-known Armenian filmmakers had long been encouraged to make a film about the genocide.
		Egoyan won a prize from the Writers Guild of Canada awards, 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ararat_(film) (411 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Reel memories in exhibition
		Egoyan also compares the physical act of oxides on the tape being moved, to that of the Biblical idea of the graven image, a relationship which he says is being lost in the digital age.
		Egoyan first became interested in the machines when his father used one to record audio diaries and the sounds of his children - a recording of the seven year old Atom Egoyan singing Doe a Deer from The Sound of Music is included in the exhibition.
		Egoyan has also explored the issue of memory in his films ¿ his latest Ararat draws on his Armenian background and shows a film director (played by Charles Aznavour) exploring the allegations that more than 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Turks in the early 20th Century.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/arts/2239537.stm (708 words)

	Atom Egoyan: All About Atom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While still a freshman, Atom produced a short film with the assistance of the Hart House Film Board, a program under the auspices of an activity center at the university.
		Atom was able to fulfill a dream when, in 1992, he traveled to Armenia for ten days to shoot scenes for Calendar.
		The CBC hired Egoyan to direct this tragic Canadian story, and although the script was not his, Atom emphasized aspects of the story that equated with some of his own thematic concerns.
	members.cruzio.com /~akreyche/aeaaa.html (1311 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Cover story - Atom Egoyan
		Atom Egoyan is known first and foremost as the man who is arguably the most famous and influential Canadian filmmaker working in the medium.
		Egoyan, who is the Musée’s artist-in-residence this year, began advertising for potential local contributions to his show over a year ago.
		The results, reports Egoyan, were amazing, and reflect thoughts and feelings of Montrealers in regards to technology and memory, and the relationship between the two.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2002/082902/cover.html (2182 words)

	Ararat, d'Atom Egoyan, à Cannes - Un génocidetiré de l'oubli
		Des applaudissements, une chaleureuse réception: Ararat du Torontois Atom Egoyan, oeuvre de complexité qui se pèle comme un oignon à couches superposées, a remporté hier sa mise sur la Croisette.
		Le chef d'orchestre Egoyan conserve sa réserve (très canadienne), une retenue qui l'empêche de plonger complètement dans l'émotion, mais son style brillant a pris ici une vraie épure.
		Egoyan et son équipe se sont fait bombarder de questions sur le sujet.
	www.ledevoir.com /2002/05/21/1525.html (951 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| Issue #36 \| The Journeys of Atom Egoyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Atom surmises that his recurring artistic theme of alienation derives from not only his personal disorientation in a new land but also the profound sense of dislocation felt by Armenians because of the destruction of Armenia as a nation and the 1915 massacre by the Turks.
		Egoyan wanted to work again with Costume Designer Sandy Powell, who won the Oscar for her Elizabethan costumes in Shakespeare in Love, because he loved her costumes for the opera he directed, Dr. Ox’s Experiment, which was produced by the English National Opera.
		Egoyan chose that style over Victorian because in the 1950s when the room was decorated by the mother he thought that would be what she wanted; the style also possesses the contradictory intimacy and austerity “which suited the tone of the piece,” he says.
	www.moviemaker.com /issues/36/36_egoyan.html (3244 words)

	Cinema Confidential News: 10/17/05 - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Atom Egoyan on "Where The Truth Lies"
		ATOM: No, they did, and we did have to alter that scene as well, which we did, and when they persisted with the NC-17 rating, we reconstructed the whole thing from how it was originally intended.
		ATOM: That’s also been an interesting profession where you have contact with people because of your job, you’re in other people’s lives, and you’re cleaning their room, or delivering a meal to their room, you have a window into another person’s life.
		ATOM: It’s an interesting thing, in the act it’s Vince who’s always trying to control Lanny, and Vince seems to be the one who’s civilizing that aspect of the partnership.
	www.cinecon.com /news.php?id=0510171 (1454 words)

	FILMDECULTE : Ararat, de Atom Egoyan
		Atom Egoyan didn’t direct a film about the killings but about our need, and even our duty, to not forget them.
		If Saroyan is there to represent Egoyan, the other characters also have their share of symbolism: Raffi is an 18 year-old young man who’s getting on a quest to find his origins.
		Egoyan seems almost sympathetic for the character, and he prefers to put the blame on the education he received in Turkey.
	www.filmdeculte.com /film/film.php?id=349 (483 words)

	Filmmaker Magazine \| Web Articles: REVIEWING HISTORY
		Egoyan’s film addresses the 1915-1917 genocide in the region of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, a chapter in history that has been largely unacknowledged, even disavowed to the present day.
		For Egoyan and his wife, actor-collaborator Arsinée Khanjian, as well as for generations of geographically and historically displaced Armenians and Turks, the story of the Armenian genocide and its legacy is one that must be remembered and articulated to fully understand their cultural identities.
		As much as Egoyan aims with urgency to bring to international recognition one of the darkest chapters of the history of the Armenian people, his film ultimately unfolds as a poetic and self-reflexive meditation on the intimate moments of remembering and telling stories and an ode to the creative process.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /archives/online_features/reviewing_history.php (3679 words)

	Atom Egoyan
		Atom Egoyan was born to Armenian refugees in Cairo, Egypt, but the family moved to Victoria, British Columbia when he was three years old.
		Although he was studying to become a diplomat, Egoyan made a short film while a freshman, receiving financial backing from the Hart House Film Board.
		Egoyan was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1999.
	www.tribute.ca /DIRECTORS/bios/3837.htm (342 words)

	Zeitgeist Films \| Atom Egoyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Atom Egoyan has directed films, which include CALENDAR, EXOTICA, THE SWEET HEREAFTER and his most recent work ARARAT.
		Egoyan’s installations have been exhibited at museums and galleries in Canada and abroad, including the Venice Biennale.
		Egoyan was President of the Jury at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival.
	zeitgeistfilms.com /directors/aegoyan (129 words)

	Atom Egoyan
		A consummate artist, Egoyan's genius as a director, writer and producer of vision and startling originality is combined with qualities he shares with Bruce -- an innate sense of dignity, simple everyday morality, thoughtful intelligence, and focused integrity.
		Atom Egoyan was intrigued, watched his work and instantly decided to re-write Exotica with Bruce in mind.
		Atom Egoyan's films with Bruce Greenwood are also among his most respected and honored and are covered in enormous detail on this website.
	www.brucegreenwood.com /atom (263 words)

	indieWIRE: White Trash: Atom Egoyan's "Where the Truth Lies"
		Egoyan has always been at his best with inscrutable (but not impenetrable) meditations on human dynamics, but from the very opening, "Where the Truth Lies" is terribly schematic.
		Time was, Atom Egoyan observed his subjects with a cool and clinical distance that denied easy answers to questions of character motivation and identification.
		Egoyan specializes in transforming the expected into the unexpected, in repeating shots and revealing worlds of emotion that weren't at first apparent.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/2005/10/white_trash_ato.html (1693 words)

	MPAA upholds NC-17 rating for Atom Egoyan film \| News \| Advocate.com
		ThinkFilm requested the appeal after Egoyan had already made several cuts to the film in hopes of receiving an R rating, which requires viewers under 17 to be accompanied by an adult.
		According to Egoyan, the shot was filmed as a single sustained master shot and he couldn't cut it any further without rendering the mystery incomprehensible.
		Fortunately for Egoyan, ThinkFilm chairman Robert Lantos is also the film's producer, and he supported the decision not to cut the scene in question completely, the director said.
	www.advocate.com /news_detail_ektid20434.asp (466 words)

	Atom Egoyan - Northern Stars
		Egoyan's television directorial credits expanded, and he was becoming increasingly in demand from Canadian and American productions on location in Toronto.
		Egoyan finally had the opportunity in 1993 to visit his parents' homeland when he went to Armenia to film scenes for Calendar.
		The critical and box-office success of Atom Egoyan's films serve as both a symbol of national pride and a role model to up and coming directors, screenwriters and...
	www.northernstars.ca /directorsal/egoyanbio.html (959 words)

	Egoyan, Atom -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		With Ararat, Atom Egoyan investigated the Turkish genocide of the Armenians in 1915 through the eyes of a filmmaker (played by Charles Aznavour) researching a film.
		Canadian director Atom Egoyan followed a disappointing melodrama, Where the Truth Lies, with his production of Ruba Nadda's Sabah (also called Coldwater), a more rewarding story of a Syrian Canadian woman invigilated by her strict Muslim family but defiantly in love with a Canadian carpenter.
		Atoms therefore were not the smallest units of matter, as scientists had thought they were.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9114526?tocId=9114526 (796 words)

	Atom Egoyan by Carole Desbarats, Jacinto Lageira, Danièle Rivière, Paul Virilio
		Egoyan, born in Cairo to Armenian parents and Canadian-raised, has always been interested in cultural and geographic displacement, but he (and Desbarats) seem more pressingly occupied with other modes of familial displacement – sexual/emotional "perversity" and the effects of technology on the private sphere, to name two (often these are irretrievably intertwined).
		Egoyan's films, it could be said, literalize the "family romance" genre, incest and incestuous relationships being just one staple of the Egoyan canon.
		The former relates to one of the common criticisms of Egoyan, that his rejection of linear narrative is mere directorial manipulation, a cheap (but effective) means of building suspense and adding an affected "artiness" to his films.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/02/20/egoyan.html (1580 words)

	Colin Firth in Where the Truth Lies
		Egoyan said the actress's quality of innocence and vulnerability is essential, because it makes her eventual ability to turn the tables against her aggressors that much more powerful.
		Atom Egoyan on the dark side of the film: “I think that as dark as the film is, it ends with a tremendous beam of light, that the decision she makes is very optimistic.
		Atom Egoyan on style and noir movies: “I revisited a lot of noir movies and it seems to me that the defining aspect of noir is not any particular visual style but the sense that the character is dealing with the notion of fate.
	www.firth.com /truth.html (13156 words)

	- RebeldeMule :: Ver tema - Ararat. Atom Egoyan, 2002.
		Para Atom Egoyan la vida es un conjunto de huecos que hay que saber rellenar.
		En los films de Egoyan las miradas se recorren atemporalmente y siempre están seccionadas por silencios que parecen esconder los secretos que ni las miradas más atrevidas se atreven a observar.
		Si Egoyan pensara como Loach, que gran ayuda sería.
	www.nodo50.org /rebeldemule/foro/viewtopic.php?t=643&view=next (800 words)

	TAKE ONE: Faraway, so close: Atom Egoyan returns home with Ararat - Palestinian writer - Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At one level Said is correct, based on the optimistic and dubious assumptions of American melting-pot social theory; at another, he is mistaken, for he assumes that forms of cultural remembrance will remain static and reactionary in the Canadian multicultural model and therefore the pain of exile will go unrelieved and unexpressed.
		Throughout his career, Egoyan has fashioned original, searching investigations into the implications of dislocation, alienation and a sense of internal Canuck exile upon individual identity, memory and consciousness.
		As often happens in Egoyan's cinema, fiction and fact spiral together into states of epistemological uncertainty for characters and the audience alike.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_39_11/ai_92802464 (1205 words)

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