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‘Seven Veils’ Filmmaker Atom Egoyan on Melding His Passion for Opera into Latest Film (Video Interview)

It’s unclear how many fans of Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s film work are aware of his side project directing operas for a number of Canadian opera companies, going back to 1996 when he directed his first production of Richard Strauss’ “Salomé.”  In 2023, Egoyan returned to direct that opera for the Canadian Opera Company at…

Horizon: An American Saga : Trailer / Kevin Costner’s Passion Project

Academy Award-winning visionary filmmaker Kevin Costner directs New Line Cinema’s vast “Horizon: An American Saga” Chapters One and Two, a multi-faceted chronicle covering the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West.  A story of America too big for one film, this true cinematic event also stars Costner, who co-writes with Jon Baird (“The…