Chloe

In Atom Egoyan’s ‘Chloe,’ Amanda Seyfried has the scary power of a young Bette Davis

There was plenty of bad behaviour at this year’s event, thanks to the likes of Drew Barrymore, Neil Young and Colin Farrell

Oprah kick-stars an Oscar campaign and Egoyan jolts the audience, and his dad, with a commercial movie

The festival plays it safe with a pedestrian epic about angst and Big Ideas

When Ghostbuster Ivan Reitman wants to remake a sexy French movie, who’s he gonna call—auteur Atom Egoyan!

Strange days for Canadian auteurs. David Cronenberg is making a movie with Tom Cruise. And Atom Egoyan is making a movie for Ivan Reitman. Ivan has hired Atom to direct Chloe, a remake of a French erotic intrigue that’s now being shot in Toronto. It’s Egoyan’s first feature based on a script he didn’t write, and it’s also quite a departure for Reitman, best known as the man who gave us Ghostbusters. I wrote about this odd creative marriage in this week’s issue of Maclean’s. And I was on the set at the Windsor Arms hotel to shoot a video of our photo shoot. Here is the result:

They are two Canadians from opposite ends of the cinematic spectrum

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