Atom Egoyan Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/atom-egoyan/ What to Watch Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:20:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Atom Egoyan Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/atom-egoyan/ 32 32 SEVEN VEILS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/seven-veils/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:20:23 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52746

(Check out Chris Reed’s Seven Veils movie review. The film is playing now in theaters via Elevation Pictures. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The work of Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (Guest of Honour) is often complex […]

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]]> SEVEN VEILS Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Takes on the Opera in Atom Egoyan’s Psychological Drama https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/seven-veils-amanda-seyfried-atom-egoyan/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:50:37 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52428 Amanda Seyfried in Atom Egoyan's SEVEN VEILS

Following its TIFF premiere in 2023, writer-director Atom Egoyan’s new film Seven Veils will finally be released in U.S. theaters. Reuniting with his Chloe star Amanda Seyfried, the psychological drama follows a theater director whose newest undertaking of the opera […]

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]]> THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT Trailer: Four Women Survive War in a Lost Country in Moving Debut Documentary https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/there-was-there-was-not-emily-mkrtichian/ Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:30:25 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52050 THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT

Life in a lost country comes into focus in one of DOC NYC’s most acclaimed selections, There Was, There Was Not. Emily Mkrtichian makes her directorial debut with this documentary that follows the lives of four women in Artsakh, a […]

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]]> TIFF 2023 LINEUP: New Films From Richard Linklater, Kitty Green, Atom Egoyan, & Michel Franco Among World Premieres https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/tiff-2023-lineup-gala-special-presentations/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:09:04 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=39974

With the film industry shaken up by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the Toronto International Film Festival will forge ahead this coming September. They have just announced their first batch of starry lineups featuring about 60 films across the Gala […]

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]]> A Conversation with Atom Egoyan (GUEST OF HONOUR) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/atom-egoyan/ Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:01:45 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31416

I met with Canadian director Atom Egoyan (Devil’s Knot) on Monday, September 9, 2019, at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss Guest of Honour (which I also reviewed), his newest feature. In it, he explores the fraught relationship […]

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Egoyan proves, yet again, that no one does lamentation quite like him. "Guest of Honour" deserves full cinematic reverence.

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]]> Hammer To Nail’s 20 Most Anticipated Films of TIFF 2019 https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/htn-tiff-2019-preview/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:59:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31328 Once again, Hammer to Nail has representation on the ground at TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival). As we did last year, we here offer up our recommended (of films we’ve already seen) and most anticipated (of films we haven’t) […]

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]]> A Conversation With Bela Tarr (THE TURIN HORSE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-bela-tarr-the-turin-horse/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-bela-tarr-the-turin-horse/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:02:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14007 “Just remember,” grins Béla Tarr, on a hot November day in Los Angeles, “outside the sun is shining.” He’s pitying, comforting, and mocking his audience as they settle in for an AFI Fest screening of his final and most uncompromising […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-bela-tarr-the-turin-horse/feed/ 2 A Conversation With Hal Hartley https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-hal-hartley/ Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:06:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6853 Still playful after all these years, catching up with The Unbelievable Truth last week was something of a difficulty, certainly more so than catching up with its director, Hal Hartley. While I didn’t have to trek all the way up […]

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