Saturday, July 22, 2017

CBC Tonight: The Filmmakers - Atom Egoyan

At 8:30pm tonight, on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is part one of a new half-hour interview program I never knew existed until minutes ago:

The Filmmakers (interviews with Canadian filmmakers of the last 20 years)

Tonight's episode: "The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan"


2 comments:

DonaldAR said...

*Sigh* I do miss Elwy Yost...

Simon St. Laurent said...

Elwy Yost was a one of a kind. He was the guy who really got me into film and made me look at it in different ways, certainly though his terrific interviews. The sheer breadth of those pieces was something for the classroom. Examples: name the actor/actress; name the director; Tony Thomas; Lionel Newman; Linwood Dunn; and on....

As for the first episode: Johanna Schneller is not a great interviewer. Geoff Pevere, one of her guests on last evening's show, would have been a much better choice to carry "The Filmmakers". While I appreciate the fact that the CBC wants to make the series accessible to the non film student, I was expecting something a little more academic.