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another brilliant Egoyan film
Speaking Parts begins, as do all of Egoyan's films, in the middle of a complex web of relationships, and part of the joy of the movie is to figure out what those relationships are as they are revealed to us in a very natural way.Lance is a hotel housekeeper/gigolo/aspiring actor and Lisa is another housekeeper who loves him.Since this love is unrequited, Lisa obsessively rents videos in which he appears, though he does not have a speaking part in any of them; at one point Lisa even defends this to another character when she asserts that "words aren't all that important".Clara is the screenwriter for a film that is being cast, and in her staying at the hotel, Lance sees seducing her as his way of taking advantage of a big break.Clara, in the meantime, is often seen viewing a memorial film of her brother at a mausoleum.

As the film progresses, we learn that Clara's screenplay is autobiographical, thoughClara is losing control of the project at the same time she's mesmerized by Lance.Characters are often seen detached from others -- viewing rather than participating in life and watching people rather than interacting with them.Also, many of the characters look alike in an androgynous way, becoming more interchangeable and confusing the relationships we see.

Egoyan is one of my favorite directors.Whenever I start a film of his that I haven't seen before, I settle in for a good long while.I watch it and then watch it with the director's commentary and then re-watch it.They are that rich and rewarding, and Speaking Parts is no exception.

Extras include an excellent and rewarding director's commentary as well as stills and some interviews with Egoyan.

80's Avante Garde
This movie is a prime example of 80's egosim and the human need to see the way others view you.Lisa played by Khanjian,(I think she is also Atom's wife) is a hotel maid that craves the attention of Lance a co-worker. The bulk of the movie is centered on Lance and Lisa and how they their need for attention ultimately throws them into a web of intrigue, delusions, sexual desire and ultimatley death.This is a movie that is best seen more than once, due to it's hidden meaning and dialogue.If possible I would highly recommend getting the DVD version, because there is commentary from Atom that is very helpful. F.Y.I. Micheal McManus also appears in the sci-fi show "Lexx," as the dead bun-headed assassin Kai and he also has a cameo in "Dog Park," as the waiter.

Riveting and Spellbinding!!
I was pleasantly surprised to see the release of this film, since it got less than it's deserved attention. The moodiness and underlying tension focus on Lance, a part-time actor/houskeeper/ prostitute trying desperately to break into the forefront of dramatic performances, but all of his efforts seem to be thwarted at every turn. His employer wants to keep him as her own personal sexual property to be doled out upon demand to customers, and Lisa, another employee at the hotel where he works has raised the level of obsessiveness to new heights, dragging other people into her obsession. Claire, a screenwriter Lance seduces into helping him to be cast in a locally produced film, has her own obsessions, and incorporates Lance into compromising his own needs with disatrous results. The performances were outstanding, especially from McManus, who portrays the effete Lance with a mixture of selfishness and torment. Lisa's descent into madness is underplayed just right, no over-the-top histrionics. The only flaw I found was the unbelievably bad wig they put on McManus for the comparison to Claire's brother's image. It must have been dreadful to acheive the desired results with the stringy locks hovering around just enough to distract his performance. But then, bad wigs pretty much come with the territory for McManus, who is also one of the lead actors on the sci-fi epic, "Lexx", currently on television, but his performances are just as spellbinding.. The Dvd comes with lovely extra goodies, especially the narration by Egoyan, which explains motivations behind each and every scene. Also contained were deleted scenes, which explained a few things not evident on first viewing. Highly recommened, but ignore the bad costumes and hairdos...

A deeper look into Speaking Parts
"Speaking Parts" is far more than just the script for the movie. This softcover book also includes an introduction by Ron Burnett, an essay by Atom Egoyan, and an interview with Egoyan by Marc Glassman. These alllead the viewer to a deeper understanding of the complexity and artistry ofEgoyan's second major film. The book is also enhanced by black and whitestills as well as pages from the original script showing hand writtensketches and dialogue changes. Also included is a filmography of Egoyan'sfilms through 1993. If you've been carried away by the film as I have, youmust find a copy of this book!

Speaking Parts, Brilliant!
An excellent film by Atom Egoyan. The moody atmosphere enhances the plot and the production is excellent. McManus fans who know him through Tales from a Parallel Universe, or Lexx as it is called in the UK, will love himin this. McManus' portrayal as the ambitious, but emotionally ambivilantLance is fantastic as is Arnesee Khanjan's performance as the frustratedLisa. UK buyers will be pleased to know that this tape will play well on avideo with duel PAL and NTSC format, with a decent PAL t.v. and is a must.Well worth the wait and not as pornographic as some reviews make out, butvery erotic in parts. Not rated but not suitable for veiwers undereighteen. ... Read more

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Films such as The Adjuster, Calendar and Speaking Parts established Canadian Armenian director Atom Egoyan as leading contender for being the worlds most alluringly postmodern filmmaker. In these and other films the distortions and perversions of the self are mirrored through an omnipresent (and sexualised) visual media culture. Through the filter of a compassionate detachment his work is an unparalleled probing of identity and alienation, sexuality and dysfunction, psychologyand subjectivity.
Leading critic Jonathan Romney traces Egoyan's career, film by film - from his early shorts, through the video-themed features that made his name, to his emergence as prize-winning A list auteur with The Sweet Hereafter and the wider canvases of his most recent films Felicia's Journey and Ararat. The author shows how films such as Egoyan's Exotica (set in a strip club and structured like a striptease) offer their viewers rich, almost inexhaustibly complex pleasures and demonstrate the craft of one of contemporary cinema's most provocative auteurs. ... Read more

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In a culture that often understands formal experimentation or theoretical argument to be antithetical to pleasure, Atom Egoyan has nevertheless consistently appealed to wide audiences around the world. If films like The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter have ensured him international cult status as one of the most revered of all contemporary directors, Egoyan's forays into installation art and opera have provided evidence of his versatility and confirmed his talents.

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Expertly compiled
Atom Egoyan has made significant contributions to filmmaking, installation art and opera that contradict the widespread notion that formal experimentation and theoretical argument must, of necessity, be antithetical to the pleasures of creation and/or enjoyment of observational or experiential art. Expertly compiled and collaboratively edited by Ryerson University Department of English associate professors Monique Teschofen and Jennifer Burwell, "Image + Territory: Essays On Atom Egoyan" offers eighteen diversely informed and informative essays grouped around the themes of `Media Technologies, Aura, and Redemption'; `Diasporic Histories and the Exile of Meaning'; `Pathologies/Ontologies of the Visual'; and `Conversations'. Enhanced with the inclusion of an exhaustive Filmography, an extended Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, and an Index, "Image + Territory: Essays On Atom Egoyan" is offers impressive body of commentary pertaining to the study of theatre, film and opera which would prove to be a core contribution to university library collections and supplemental reading lists for academic studies. ... Read more

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The first book on the extraordinary young Turkish filmmaker, whose work explores the way human relationships are corrupted by the omnipresence of technology. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Etc. Montreal, published by Revue d'Art Contemporain Etc. Inc. on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1554 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Souvenirs analogues: Atom Egoyan, Hors d'usage (exposition).
Author: Julie Hetu
Publication: Etc. Montreal (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Revue d'Art Contemporain Etc. Inc.
Issue: 60Page: 47-8

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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 5089 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Relocating the viewer: an interview with Atom Egoyan.
Author: Jacinto Lageira
Publication: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2001
Publisher: Parachute Contemporary Art
Volume: 103Issue: 7-9Page: 51-71

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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 5555 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Reloger le spectateur: une interview avec Atom Egoyan.
Author: Jacinto Lageira
Publication: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2001
Publisher: Parachute Contemporary Art
Volume: 103Issue: 7-9Page: 51-71

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This digital document is an article from Opera Canada, published by Opera Canada Publications on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1596 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Forging the ring: Atom Egoyan in pre-rehearsal rehearsals for Die Walkure.
Author: Wayne Gooding
Publication: Opera Canada (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Opera Canada Publications
Volume: 45Issue: 1Page: 14(2)

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This digital document is an article from Take One, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1912 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How do we know what we know? Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.
Author: Tom McSorley
Publication: Take One (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 14Issue: 51Page: 20(5)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on May 2, 2001. The length of the article is 1081 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Atom Egoyan: Nueva variante de la Bella y la Bestia.(TT: Atom Egoyan: an updated version of Beauty and the Beast.)(Reseña)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: May 2, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 47Issue: 2498Page: 57

Article Type: Reseña

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This digital document is an article from Take One, published by Canadian Independent Film & Television Publishing Association on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3139 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Death, Canadian style: Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter.(Reprint)
Author: Geoff Pevere
Publication: Take One (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Canadian Independent Film & Television Publishing Association
Volume: 14Issue: 50Page: 6(7)

Article Type: Reprint

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on November 22, 2002. The length of the article is 5034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: THE DAWN of the atomic age in Egypt inspired filmmaker Atom Egoyan's unusual first name.(Entertainment)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: November 22, 2002
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: T14

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This digital document is an article from Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada, published by Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 586 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Egoyan's venture into chamber opera met a disastrous fate. The opera 'Elsewhereless' featured at Festival Canada met lackluster response from audiences and critics alike. The inappropriate staging and dissonant music were blamed for the poor production.

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Title: Elsewhere....(critique on Toronto-based filmmaker Atom Egoyan and his chamber opera production titled 'Elsewhereless')
Author: Iris Winston
Publication: Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada
Volume: 32Issue: 1Page: 6(2)

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Title: The Politics of Denial: An Interview with Atom Egoyan.(Interview)
Author: Richard Porton
Publication: Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 1999
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: 25Issue: 1Page: 39

Article Type: Interview

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This digital document is an article from C: International Contemporary Art, published by C The Visual Arts Foundation on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 546 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Atom Egoyan and Juliao Sarmento.(installation artwork at the 49th Venice Biennale)(Brief Article)
Author: Laurel MacMillan
Publication: C: International Contemporary Art (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: C The Visual Arts Foundation
Page: 44

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Egoyan's filmmaking career is well-documented but his equally prestigious reputation as a visual artist, less so. This publication fills that gap. With an interview, filmography, bibliography and a list of Egoyan's installations and projects. ... Read more

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Everybody loves the movies. But a movie about the colour blue, or an isolated mountain range, or a man grown so thin the world floats through his perfect transparency? 'You know what would be really great - to make a two-hour movie about Taylor Mead's ass,' remarked Andy Warhol, the most notorious fringe filmer of them all. Welcome to the strange and wonderful universe of fringe cinema, where the only rules left unbroken are the ones that have been forgotten. Twenty-three interviews with Canada's finest underdogs lay it all down like a road, ready to take you through the vanishing point of personality.

This new edition includes a foreword by Atom Egoyan, and features never-before-heard raps from Ellie Epp, David Rimmer, Ann Marie Fleming, Anna Gronau, John Kneller, Rick Hancox and Kika Thorne, joining fellow fringers like Mike Snow, Carl Brown, Patricia Gruben, Penelope Buitenhuis, Fumiko Kiyooka, Wrik Mead, Annette Mangaard, Gariné Torossian, Richard Kerr and Mike Cartmell.

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The questions of the "Narrative" in art and film are posed and compellingly expounded upon in this innovative publication from the Irish Museum of Modern Art. ... Read more