Tag: Sarah Polley

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  eXistenZ (1999)

  January 15, 2022

  1990s, Arthouse Cinema, Canadian Cinema, Cyberpunk, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Satire, Sci Fi, Thriller, Video Games

  Continuing the cyber-punk run I’m on by firing up a rewatch of David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999), which is up there with Dark City with cult movies overshadowed by The Matrix’s box office success. Pre-millennium video-game inspired noirish narratives about the nature of reality and its confusion with fiction; the type with strong fans who will… Read.

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  Exotica (1994)

  July 27, 2020

  1990s, Arthouse Cinema, Canadian Cinema, Crime, Drama, Independent Film, Mystery

  Atom Egoyan’s early work was a regular fixture on SBS Saturday Cult Movie night and him, alongside Hal Hartley, defined a certain indie cinema aesthetic pre-Tarantino. I remember Egoyan’s break-out arthouse hit Exotica (1994) being advertised as an erotic thriller, posters and video boxes using the imagery of Mia Kirshner’s character dancing in a school… Read.