Atom Egoyan: Search and Destroy

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...

Chloe is on mubi, might give it a go.

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

Chloe is like one of his old Red Shoe Diaries episodes. Remember was so bad.

still haven't seen anything past Ararat. I think his films through Sweet Hereafter are all awesome.

Buncha his films newly available on Criterion Channel. Guess I should finally watch The Adjuster?

I remember loving The Adjuster while also having it nake me feel slightly nauseous inside

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.

Adoration is not terrible iirc

oooh i'm finally gonna get to see exotica!

/Adoration/ is not terrible iirc

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.

it's hard to forget by the sixth time she shows up in one of his movies

LOL

I've forgotten how much a creepy queerness permeates his films

Not sure i've ever detected that, but i'm rewatching stuff now after a 15-20-year layoff.

The older victim in The Adjuster feverishly kissing Elias Koteas' hand; the gay scene in Exotica...

his early movies are all incredible and that unsettling, uncomfortable aspect is what makes them so. but my favorite is Calendar.

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.

wow, the adjuster!!!! what a film

rewatched exotica last night, that's now an all-timer for me. a vibe i haven't found anywhere else

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

the club is incredible but all of my favorite dialogue exchanges in the movie are between bruce greenwood and sarah polley in the car

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.

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.

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

Liked Exotica when it came out, haven’t seen it since. Did see Don McKellar’s Last Night finally on MUBI recently.

holy fucking shit @ speaking parts