...and here's the trailer for Chloe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPimNHuCoRQ
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
remembered this guy during films of the 00's poll, thought how he had really fallen off compared to the previous decade
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/chloe/
― i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is (velko), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
He fell off as soon as he stopped writing his own scripts.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
had no idea he had another one out so soon. I still haven't seen the last one. Which is weird because he was probably my favorite modern director for a number of years there.
― akm, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only seen three of his films, I think. He's sometimes at the Cinematheque (Toronto) when I see films there. I'm not bold enough to go up to him and say, "Stop--please."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
We watched Chloe last night... Mixed feelings on it. I guessed the twist right away (never saw the source film this was based on) but thought the third act was the weekest. Not bad though, the lead has great lips and curves... kinda this Sarah Polley meets ScarJo hybrid (straight up Egoyan's alley, iow). Julianne Moore is pretty decent too. I think this was the movie that Liam Neeson was filming when his wife died. Not sure if that affected his performance. Idk, I could go either way on this. Might watch again.
― Fuck these fake assholes. They suck now.#0 (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"Plus, he's a better adapter than original screenwriter"
Still can't believe someone believes this.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you not familiar with Amanda Seyfried, Shasta? She's been getting a lot of roles lately.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
If you had looked at this poster when it came out, and were asked who would have the best career 7 years down the road, would you have picked Amanda Seyfried? I doubt that anyone would, yet here we are.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/Mean_Girls_movie.jpg/220px-Mean_Girls_movie.jpg
― The Man Mens (Phil D.), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
felicia's journey was a weird freakin movie. idk what was even going on in that one.
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Felicia's Journey came out while I was living in Birmingham, and it was fun to see my adopted home writ large.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't seen his last three films, for some reason. at one point he was my favorite filmmaker. I still think most of his stuff through Sweet Hereafter is top-notch. YOu need to get over the canadian-ness of some of the acting though.
― akm, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
in the shower this morning i was trying to remember if amanda seyfried had been in this movie, and i managed to convince myself i'd been confusing her with blonde rachel mcadams.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
you all shouldve watched Veronica Mars, where Amanda Seyfried plays a better dead girl than Sheryl Lee...
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Just watched Sweet Hereafter again; I think that movie has held up really well...
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
I was just thinking of watching that again. Love Ian Holmes's last line to Sarah Polley in that.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
"Ian Holm's" rather
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
^yeah that's great! Holm is awesome; Polley, too.
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
Also the rare film that is better than the (well regarded) source novel. Seem to recall Banks liking Egoyan's additions as well.
Man, Egoyan - what happened, man?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 May 2011 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
stopped directing films he wrote, mainly. although I didn't see adoration (actually I haven't seen anything past ararat, which I think is very good)
― akm, Saturday, 21 May 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
although people liked chloe, didn't they?
Chloe has to be his biggest film; they were selling it at Walmart!
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 May 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
it has the most famous lead acress of any of his films, which is why
― akm, Saturday, 21 May 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, right, it's just an erotic thriller from Atom Egoyan is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Walmart
I wonder what happened to his repertory...
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 22 May 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
Chloe is on mubi, might give it a go.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
I hear good things about Remember from some ppl I mostly trust but overall man it's hard to think of filmmakers who fell off harder
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 21 May 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
Chloe is like one of his old Red Shoe Diaries episodes. Remember was so bad.
― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, 21 May 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
still haven't seen anything past Ararat. I think his films through Sweet Hereafter are all awesome.
― akm, Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
Buncha his films newly available on Criterion Channel. Guess I should finally watch The Adjuster?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
I remember loving The Adjuster while also having it nake me feel slightly nauseous inside
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
That's how I feel about a lot of his earlier stuff. It can be so ... discomfiting. (At least "Next of Kin" is pretty funny, iirc.) I want to say his "mature" streak of "Calendar," "Exotica" and "Sweet Hereafter" is where it all comes together (right before it all falls apart), but I haven't seen those early movies in so long.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link
Adoration is not terrible iirc
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 2 July 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
oooh i'm finally gonna get to see exotica!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 July 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
/Adoration/ is not terrible iirc
― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, 2 July 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
Saw Next of Kin for the first time... It is funny, but also has the hollow protagonist/videotape thing which is quite creepy.
Also i'd forgotten Arsinée Khanjian is married to Egoyan.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 July 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
it's hard to forget by the sixth time she shows up in one of his movies
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 3 July 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
LOL
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 3 July 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
I've forgotten how much a creepy queerness permeates his films
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 July 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
Not sure i've ever detected that, but i'm rewatching stuff now after a 15-20-year layoff.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 July 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
The older victim in The Adjuster feverishly kissing Elias Koteas' hand; the gay scene in Exotica...
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 July 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
his early movies are all incredible and that unsettling, uncomfortable aspect is what makes them so. but my favorite is Calendar.
― akm, Friday, 3 July 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
I'm dreading a rewatch of Family Viewing but I'm otherwise compelled to. I haven't rewatched any of the early ones since they came out.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 July 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
wow, the adjuster!!!! what a film
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 September 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
rewatched exotica last night, that's now an all-timer for me. a vibe i haven't found anywhere else
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 25 September 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
the verhoeven quote upthread is fundamentally right especially wrt to comparing exotica and showgirls, but it also wouldn't occur to me to compare them. showgirls is corrupted; exotica, despite its consumingly sinister atmosphere, is very innocent. these are babes in the woods, broken apart by trauma and reassembled into people they don't recognize
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 25 September 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
the club is incredible but all of my favorite dialogue exchanges in the movie are between bruce greenwood and sarah polley in the car
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 25 September 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
yes, one of my absolute all time favorite films. I think the screenplay is exceptional. It's one of the only screenplays I bought in book form and kept.
― akm, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
showgirls and exotica aren't even remotely about the same thing so comparing them isn't fair to either one. Exotica is explicitly about grief.
― akm, Friday, 25 September 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
the abrupt transition from the club to the shot of the search party emerging over the hill and then back to bruce greenwood sweating in the bathroom... takes my breath away
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 25 September 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Liked Exotica when it came out, haven’t seen it since. Did see Don McKellar’s Last Night finally on MUBI recently.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 September 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link