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Ararat (2002)

Life must be a nonstop party at the old Egoyan homestead. Our pal Atom comes home, tired from a long day’s work, sits down for dinner with his wife Arsinée Khanjian, and finally they retire to the living room where they get to discuss Armenia at length. Atom Egoyan, the avant-garde Canadian filmmaker born in

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Atanarjuat (2001)

After screening Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) before a sold-out crowd at the New York Museum of Modern Art, filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn answered an audience member’s question with obvious chagrin. While the film had collected six Genie awards (Canada’s Oscars), including prizes for Best Film, Best Direction, and Best Screenplay, Cohn noted that

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Audition (1999)

Starting right with its cover shot of demure Japanese model Eihi Shiina wearing a chemical-safe, black rubber glove and clutching an enormous syringe, we know we’re in for something extremely wrong with Takashi Miike’s Audition. And in a way, that’s the problem. Audition starts out as the sweetest little love tragedy you can imagine. Poor

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