'Remember' Trailer: Christopher Plummer Wants Revenge
Quickly following the releases of The Devil's Knot and Captive, we're already getting another film from director Atom Egoyan. Watch the Remember trailer.
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'The Captive' Trailer: Who Took Ryan Reynolds' Daughter, And Why?
On a routine day, the daughter of a man played by Ryan Reynolds is kidnapped from his car, and that might be the least unusual crime in the film The Captive. Atom Egoyan directs a story about the suspicion that falls upon a family as an investigator (Rosario Dawson) attempts to unravel the crime. But…
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'The Captive' Trailer: Atom Egoyan's Kidnapping Thriller Starring Ryan Reynolds
Watch The Captive Trailer. Ryan Reynolds stars in a kidnapping thriller by Atom Egoyan that'll premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
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'The Devil's Knot' Trailer: A New Account Of The West Memphis Three
Here's the official US The Devil's Knot trailer, giving us a new look at Atom Egoyan's dramatization of the West Memphis Three story.
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'Devil's Knot' Trailer And Poster: Atom Egoyan's Star-Studded Take On The West Memphis Three
As talented as Atom Egoyan is, he undertook an incredibly difficult task in making a film about the West Memphis Three. The disturbing and fascinating yet ultimately redemptive true story of three young boys convicted of a murder they didn't commit has already been told near perfectly in no-less-than four documentaries. So right off the…
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'Devil's Knot' Director Atom Egoyan Sees West Memphis Three Case As "A Piece Of American Mythology"
Even after the three men were freed last year, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin, aka the West Memphis Three, remain figures of intense interest. There are four major documentaries about the murder case that saw the three young men sentenced to death (Echols) and life in prison (Misskelley and Baldwin) for the murders…
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Big Roles For Newcomers: Kathryn Bigelow Picks Her Osama Bin Laden; Atom Egoyan Finds Damien Echols
If I needed to I could come up with two films more different than Kathryn Bigelow's "kill Osama Bin Laden" movie Zero Dark Thirty and Atom Egoyan's West Memphis Three drama Devil's Knot. But for the sake of argument let's note that despite being fiction based in truth, they're still pretty seriously different projects.Both films…
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The Best Movies About Grief You Probably Haven't Seen
Tell me if you had a similar experience. Every year when I was a kid my father would wait until I was having the most fun during Memorial Day weekend – I'd either be mid-chomp on a hot dog or about to leap off a diving board – when he'd remind me that, “this weekend…
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Colin Firth To Join Reese Witherspoon In West Memphis Three Drama 'Devil's Knot'
The star power that came out in defense of the West Memphis Three was remarkable and now there's added juice behind an eventual dramatic film version. Oscar-winner Colin Firth has just joined previously cast Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon in Devil's Knot, the first narrative feature (after several documentaries) concerning the complicated yet fascinating subject of the West…
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West Memphis Three: Atom Egoyan Plots Feature; Peter Jackson Responds To Freedom; Third Documentary News
Last week saw the dramatic end to the story of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr., aka the West Memphis Three. The trio were the subject of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's documentary Paradise Lost in 1996. That film told of how the three young men had been tried and convicted for the…
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Atom Egoyan And Guy Maddin Making Short Films For Opening Of New Toronto Film Fest HQ
For the past few years the Bell Lightbox has been under construction just on the north edge of downtown Toronto. The center is meant to be the new headquarters of the Toronto International Film Festival, and it finally opens this year, on September 12. In addition to the annual festival, which opens September 9, the…
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French NSFW Trailer For Chloe With Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson And Julianne Moore
The latest, definitely NSFW trailer for Atom Egoyan's Chloe comes from France where they're reputedly a lot happier about nudity and 'sensuality' than in the US. You can see for yourself after the break. It will probably leave you with the impression that the French are quite happy about women kissing each other too. I…
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