Word: egoyan
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When Atom Egoyan's son, Arshile, was six or seven, the Canadian director decided it was time to share with him some painful family history: the deaths of more than 1 million Armenians, including some of Egoyan's paternal relatives, at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I. In response, the little boy had one inevitable question...
...Turks say sorry?" Since the Turks have never admitted that the massacres and forced deportations amounted to genocide - they acknowledge only that many died on each side in World War I - Egoyan didn't know what to say. "I realized that by telling him the answer, the trauma of denial that I had been raised with would be transferred to him," says Egoyan. "I understood that I wanted to talk about how this trauma lives on today." So Egoyan decided to make a movie - and cast in the title role a potent symbol: Ararat. Physically, Mount Ararat is located...
...recent six-hour video project for PBS, Ma collaborated with artists from various disciplines to present Bach’s “Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.” Choreographer Mark Morris, Olympic figure skaters Torvill and Dean, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, a Kabuki actor and a landscape designer worked with Ma on different suites to create what The Washington Post called an “18th-century music video...
...world of filmmaking has changed radically in the last decade, Egoyan notes. "When I made Family Viewing there was definitely a firm line between commercial and independent movies that seemed immutable. But today, that's all changed. I think it really began with Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape-a title I still wish I'd thought of first, incidentally-which proved that features which were artistically ambitious could still meet with commercial success...
...When asked whether he would ever consider coming to Hollywood to make a big-budget, artistic feature such as Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, Egoyan admits that he "would definitely be open to it. It all depends on the situation. Having complete control and final cut is a very important element to me. At the same time, I am definitely aware of the possibilities that the world of Hollywood offers. I haven't yet wanted to tell a story that required any kind of sizeable budget, but it's a possibility that could definitely arise in the future...