The Atom Egoyan Collection (Blu-ray disc)

Collection of seven films from Canadian writer/director Atom Egoyan. In 'Exotica' (1994), pet shop owner Thomas (Don McKellar) arrives in town with a secret cache of rare bird eggs. Sharing a cab from the airport he ends up in Exotica, a local strip club. Fascinated by star stripper Christina (Mia Kirshner), he becomes drawn into her sordid lifestyle, along with the club DJ (Elias Koteas) and a disturbed tax auditor (Bruce Greenwood). As the multiple narratives and chronological twists unfold, the characters find their lives becoming inexorably intertwined as they head towards a shocking conclusion. In 'The Adjuster' (1991), Koteas plays Noah Render, an insurance adjuster whose attempts to help others mask a deeper malaise in his own life. His wife Hera (Arsinée Khanjian) is a disillusioned film censor who obsessively copies the most explicit scenes in the films she is supposed to review. After Noah helps a rich young woman whose house has burned down, Hera invites a young film-maker into their home to shoot a movie, and as their elaborate sexual fantasies are acted out on video, they begin to explore a world where voyeurism and exhibitionism are all-consuming. In 'Family Viewing' (1987), Van (Aidan Tierney) finds himself in a difficult situation when he realises that his father Stan (David Hemblen) is recording over the family's home movies with home-made pornography. Not only is Stan's lover Sandra (Gabrielle Rose) completely at the mercy of his dark fantasies, but she also expresses a sexual interest in Van. Dividing his time between the family home and a nearby nursing residence caring for his aging grandmother Armen (Selma Keklikian), Van meets Aline (Khanjian), who works as a phone-sex operator, and the two concoct a plan to escape his emotionally cold father. In 'The Sweet Hereafter' (1997), powerful lawyer Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) arrives in a small town in British Columbia after 14 children die in a school bus crash. Announcing that he will win compensation for the townsfolk, Stephens investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding the accident, discovering various dark secrets lurking beneath the surface. In 'Calendar' (1993), a photographer (Egoyan) and his wife (Khanjian) travel to Armenia to photograph churches for use in a calendar, employing a native speaking driver (Ashot Adamyan) to escort them around the country. On their travels a relationship develops between the photographer's wife and the Armenian guide. Looking back on this time from his apartment in Toronto, the newly separated photographer contacts women through an escort agency and invites them to dinner, all while his estranged wife tries reconcile with him. In 'Next of Kin' (1984), Peter (Patrick Tierney) is a young man from an Anglo-Saxon family who is constantly under pressure to do something meaningful with his life. The family visit a therapist in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the tension between themselves and Peter's apparent laziness. When Peter visits the clinic before the next session hoping to view the video recording of their last meeting he is given the wrong tape and instead is shown the recording of an immigrant family who had given up their first son for adoption upon entering the country. What Peter then suggests to his family and therapist is that he take a break in order to find himself, but what he actually does is assume the identity of this other family's long lost son. Finally, in 'Speaking Parts' (1989), struggling actor Lance (Michael McManus) works in housekeeping at a local hotel while waiting for his first speaking role. Meanwhile, his co-worker Lisa (Khanjian) is obsessed with him and seeks out all the movies he appears in as a means of satisfying her voyeuristic tendencies. When Lance learns a scriptwriter, Clara (Rose), is staying at the hotel he chooses to leave his résumé in her room in the hope that she'll give him a part in her next film about her late brother. Before long the two become romantically involved and Lance finds himself with his first lead role but Clara becomes increasingly distressed when a series of changes are made to her story by the movie's producer.

General

Studio:	Artificial Eye
Release date:	April 2014
Movie released:	2013
Actors:	Bruce Greenwood • Mia Kirshner • Elias Koteas • Don McKellar • Victor Garber • Jack Blum • Billy Merasty • Damon D'Oliveira • Peter Krantz • Calvin Green • David Hemblen • Sarah Polley • Maury Chaykin • Jennifer Dale • Armen Kokorian • Gerard Parkes • Gabrielle Rose • Jacqueline Samuda • Arthur Sarkissian • Aidan Tierney • Arsinée Khanjian • Selma Keklikian • Jeanne Sabourin • Rose Sarkisyan • Vasag Baghboudarian • David Mackay • Hrant Alianak • Ian Holm • Peter Donaldson • Brooke Johnson • Tom McCamus • Stephanie Morgenstern • Earl Pastko • Alberta Watson • Ashot Adamyan • Atom Egoyan • Michelle Bellerose • Natalia Jasen • Susan Hamann • Patrick Tierney • Berj Fazlian • Sirvart Fazlian • Margaret Loveys • Thomas Tierney • Phil Rash • Paul Babiak • Michael McManus • Tony Nardi • Patricia Collins
Contributors:	Camelia Frieberg • Atom Egoyan • Mychael Danna • Robert MacDonald • Peter Mettler • Norayr Kasper • Paul Sarossy
Directors:	Atom Egoyan
Format:
Disks:	7
Region encoding:	Region B. This Blu-ray disk will play in all South African Blu-ray players.
Languages:	English
Age restriction:	18
Categories:	DVD > Drama DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	X4M-3FA-NKE-2
Barcode:	5021866103402

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