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Arshile Egoyan on Before They Joined Us: 'It's not obsessed with delivering a specific narrative. It leaves things to be questioned and interpreted' The latest short from Arshile Egoyan, which will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival tomorrow, has a very personal origin. Before They Joined Us draws on the childhood of his mother, actress Arsinée Khanjian, to show two sisters fleeing Lebanon to live with their Jehovah’s Witnesses relatives in Canada, who believed the world was due to end. Khanjian features in the film alongside young stars Lorie Berberian and Ava Andreakos, who escape one sort of uncertainty only to be confronted with another. We caught up with Egoyan over Zoom to talk about crafting the story and its core themes ahead of its premiere.

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Atom Egoyan has revealed that he was so traumatized by the negative reception to his Ryan Reynolds-starring thriller The Captive at the Cannes Film Festival that he will never return again with a film.

The pedophilia thriller, starring Reynolds as a man dealing with the disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter, was widely panned by the Cannes critics corps when it world premiered in competition in 2014.

“It was actually the worst reviewed film that I ever did. We should never have taken it to Cannes,” the Canadian-Armenian director told a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra meeting in Qatar on Wednesday.

“It got this really crazy reception. It was in competition on the Friday night. I haven’t been to Cannes since because I just don’t ever want to come back to what we had that night. The last couple of films, we showed in Venice or Berlin.

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It would be disingenuous to suggest that Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster is a horror film.

Psychological thriller is more apt descriptor, though audiences seeking scary set pieces will walk away unsatisfied. Despite this, The Adjuster has a narrative of thriller tropes, including a large number of psychosexual relationships, characters adopting dual roles (or simply role playing) and an ending that encourages audiences to re-evaluate what they have seen.

Egoyan is one of Canada’s most significant contemporary directors, though internationally his work is known principally in art cinema and film festival circles. In the 90s, Egoyan was a symbol of national pride; he, along with David Cronenberg, was essentially the face of English-language Canadian film. His most famous film is the Sarah Polley-starring The Sweet Hereafter,...

Throughout his sixteen feature films, prolific Toronto-based, Egyptian-born filmmaker Atom Egoyan has explored obsession, modern technology, fragmented families, the unreliability of memory, and multicultural tensions embodied within Canada. His latest film, Guest of Honour, recalls his earlier films––including Family Viewing, Speaking Parts, The Adjuster, and Exotica––in a story featuring David Thewlis as a food inspector and Laysla De Oliveria as his adult child, wrongfully convicted of a crime she did not commit but agrees to serve the time for, in order to atone for other sins.

An intimate thriller told through the unreliable memories of its protagonist’s daughter, Guest of Honour is now available via Kino Marquee, supporting Virtual Cinemas. We spoke to Egoyan about the inspirations behind hiis latest film, launching at Venice and TIFF last year, and its place in his career spanning three and a half decades since his first feature, 1984’s Next of Kin.

"All I want to know... is if that's the truth?" Kino Lorber has released a new official Us trailer for the indie drama titled Guest of Honour, the latest from Egyptian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan. This first premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals last fall, and played at lots of other festivals last year. The film follows a father and daughter in Canada, as they attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets. Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully imprisoned for. Both her and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them. Starring David Thewlis and Laysla De Oliveira as Jim and Veronica, along with Luke Wilson, Rossif Sutherland, Arsinée Khanjian, and Alexandre Bourgeois. I saw this film in Venice last year (my review) and it's good, a sobering,...

"All I want to know, is if that's the truth?" Cine Maldito in Spain has unveiled an official trailer for the indie drama titled Guest of Honour, the latest feature made by Egyptian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan. This originally premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals last fall, and played at numerous other festivals last year. It was originally set to open in April in Europe, but will likely be held until cinemas start re-opening. The film follows a father and daughter in Canada, as they attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets. Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully imprisoned for. Both her and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them. Starring David Thewlis and Laysla De Oliveira as Jim and Veronica, along with Luke Wilson, Rossif Sutherland,...

Guest Of Honour director and rabbit competition winner Atom Egoyan with Anne-Katrin Titze’s Steiff Dürer Bunny at the Seven Grams Caffe in New York Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the Canada Now Opening Night U.S. premiere on February 13, of Atom Egoyan’s Guest Of Honour, starring David Thewlis and Laysla De Oliveira with Luke Wilson and Arsinée Khanjian, 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman asked Atom about his work with longtime composer Mychael Danna and Shannon Graham.

Guest Of Honour China poster from Atom Egoyan’s phone Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Ed Bahlman: Atom, it’s a beautiful score. Can you talk a little bit how you worked with the composer?

Atom Egoyan: The composer is someone I’ve been working with since Family Viewing, Mychael Danna. He’s a very brilliant composer. Because of the relationship, a lot of the visual composing...

It would take more explaining than the film merits to articulate why deep-fried rabbit ears are briefly a plot point in “Guest of Honour,” but so they are: The camera grazes over a platter of the oval-shaped delicacies, looking invitingly golden-crumbed and crunchy, and for a second any reservations you might have about the unusual menu item fall away. , in which a frayed father-daughter bond yields all manner of secondary indiscretions and traumas over a wildly careering 15-year timeframe. Incorporating stray narrative and thematic elements from Egoyan’s earlier (and far better) films into an odd kind of self-pastiche, this unwelcome “Guest” serves only to remind viewers how the director’s gifts have withered.

An Atom bomb even by his unreliable recent standards, “Guest of Honour” does, however, extend Egoyan’s mystifying run of major European competition berths for shaky genre pieces of limited artistic ambition. While the combination of...

The film follows a group of washed-up pop musicians trying to stage a comeback.

Tel Aviv-based companies Green Productions and Sushi and Bourekas have released a first look image of Boaz Armoni’s upcoming musical comedy The Electrifiers about a group of washed-up pop musicians trying to stage a comeback.

Zvika Nathan, who also takes producer and co-writer credits, stars alongside Uri Hochman and Sharon Alexander as the members of a revival band alongside a host of real-life 1980s Israeli pop icons.

Israeli TV stars Tal Friedman and Eli Yatzpan make an appearance as the band’s agents and nemesis.

A total of 36 projects will be in Berlin.

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The Berlinale co-production market (February 17 – 21, 2018) will welcome 36 new feature film projects that are looking for co-producers. In addition, five production companies will be introduced in the ‘company matching’ programme.

Projects include new films by Todd Solondz, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aisling Walsh and Franka Potente.

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Hundreds of movies have resulted from the previous fifteen editions of the event. Two films to emerge from recent editions confirmed for this year’s Competition section of the Berlinale are Figlia mia (Daughter of Mine) directed by Laura Bispuri and Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot by Philip Gröning.

For the 2018 market, 21 feature film projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €6m, were selected from 326 submissions. The projects, which will be presented by their producers already have either production support from their home countries, or financing of at least 30 percent in place.

Two additional film projects...

The most populous city in Canada has appeared on-screen in many different ways over the years.Enemy (2013)

There are many ways in which cities are portrayed in cinema. Sometimes cities are anonymous and nameless, and sometimes cities become characters in the films they are portrayed in. Cities can be merely incidental settings, or the specific locations within a city can be incredibly important both narratively and visually. The people within a city tend to represent the place itself: how they act, how they dress, where they work, how they speak, and what they eat. All of these things can be related to the place they live. Cities are home to an infinite multitude of experiences — people from different places, with different families, different wants and desires and identities.

There are cities that are frequently remembered as being iconic within the world of cinema. Paris, Rome, New York, Venice, Chicago, and London have all received loving portraits in...

Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” is the second film at this year’s festival with poetry as its central theme, though unlike Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist extravaganza “Endless Poetry”, “Paterson” deals in the so-called poetry of the everyday and the ordinary, or prosaic poetry – and I spent the entire film unable to figure out if Jarmush was pulling the audience’s legs reciting and rehashing and superimposing on-screen verses of the sort “Today I washed my feet. Remains to be seen if tomorrow will bring toe-nail clipping”. Not literally, but almost.

Still on a high from yesterday’s jubilant South American mad fest, today the tale of small-town New Jersey haiku-weaving bus driver Paterson (Adam Driver) fell painfully short of the exhilaration that real filmed poetry can arouse. Paterson is mild-mannered, old-fashioned, and slightly dim-wit looking (his naiveté has shades of Forrest Gump). He is also exasperatingly hyper polite, thanking his...

Canadian film-maker received the honour before a screening of Exotica as part of the Tribute To… programme

At the Sarajevo Film Festival on Wednesday [Aug 19], Canadian director Atom Egoyan received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo for his contribution to the art of film at a ceremony in the festival’s Meeting Point cinema.

“By awarding Atom Egoyan with the Heart of Sarajevo, we would like to honour one of the most noted contemporary film-makers, who is not only a theatre and opera director as well, but also a visual artist, writer and professor of film,” said Sff festival director Mirsad Purivatra.

“They call him the master of visual and verbal storytelling, and we completely agree.”

Egoyan then took to the stage and delivered a touching speech: “I’ve been to many festivals, I’ve received honours, but this one is so special because of the spirit and the history of this festival.

“This is a festival...

Exotica

Written & Directed by Atom Egoyan

Canada, 1994

Atom Egoyan’s serpentine erotic thriller, Exotica, is a flawless exercise in understated urgency. Flashbacks, arresting visuals, and Mychael Danna’s score slowly reveal a web of strangers inextricably linked by one man’s suffering. It’s less a cinematic puzzle than an organic realization. When all of the mysteries are unraveled, you know a little bit more about the Human condition. Though many consider The Sweet Hereafter to be Egoyan’s masterpiece, Exotica is fearless indie filmmaking at its best.

From the very first images of Exotica—a languid tracking shot across an artificial tropical landscape—we have the unsettling feeling that something terrible is lurking in the weeds. “You have to ask yourself what brought the person to this point,” an unseen narrator advises us. Egoyan then spends the next 100 minutes re-constructing the events that irrevocably shattered each of his characters.

★★★★☆ Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan has explored a wealth of recurring motifs throughout his career thus far. These include repeated inspections of identity, performance and voyeurism amidst wider contexts such as familial anxiety and immigration. The first flex of his distinct voice can be found in his more than capable feature debut, Next of Kin (1984), which is now rereleased on UK DVD and Blu-ray courtesy of Artificial Eye. In little over an hour he manages to address many of the elements that would define his later work and create a compelling piece of cinema, though it will not be to all tastes.

Renowned for his dispassionate characters, his first protagonist was a prime example. Peter (Patrick Tierney) is a young man emotionally disconnected from his endlessly arguing parents and without any direction in life. Having developed a coping mechanism in which he pretends to be other people, said folks attempt to...

The Cannes Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury announced its winners. Jean-Pierre Dardenne led the jury of Arsinée Khanjian, Karim Aïnouz, Emmanuel Carrère and Yu Lik-Wai. Three of the festival's 15 selected short films, chosen from 1,700 submissions, were screened and given their awards at the Buñuel Theatre ceremony. First place winner, Taisia Igumentseva from Russian, is also guaranteed to have her first feature screen at Cannes. Winning films are listed below: First Prize (€15,000): "Doroga Na (The Road to)" directed by Taisia Igumentseva Vgik, Russia Second Prize (€11,250): "Abigail" directed by Matthew James Reilly Nyu, USA Third Prize (€7,500): "The Hosts" directed by Miguel Angel Moulet Eictv, Cuba...

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgian director, scriptwriter and producer) will preside over the jury for the Cinéfondation and short films at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.

Dardenne shared the honours of the Grand Prix with his brother Luc for The Kid with a Bike in 2011, after winning two Palmes d’Or, first in 1999 for Rosetta and then in 2005 for The Child, and the prize for best screenplay in 2008 for Lorna’s Silence.

The jury comprises of five well-known personalities from the world of cinema and literature: Arsinée Khanjian (Canadian actress), Karim AÏNOUZ (Brazilian director and scriptwriter), Emmanuel CARRÈRE (French writer, scriptwriter and director) and Yu Lik-wai (Chinese director of photography and filmmaker).

The Jury will select three films presented in the Sélection Cinéfondation, composed of works by cinema-schools, to which they will award prizes of €15,000, €11,250 and €7,500 respectively.

The jury will also award the Palme d’Or for Short Films, to...

The San Francisco International Film Festival unveiled the lineup and program for its 55th edition yesterday, 174 films in all, from 45 countries. Sfiff's not a festival that places much emphasis on premieres, but one that it is touting is The Fourth Dimension, a collection of three shorts by Harmony Korine, Alexsei Fedorchenko (Silent Souls) and Jan Kwiecinski, screening April 20 and four days later at the Tribeca Film Festival (Sfiff runs from April 19 through May 3, Tribeca from April 18 through 29).

The Hollywood Reporter debuted the trailer on Monday; and, for Sfiff, Cheryl Eddy fills us in: "Created under a 'manifesto' whose directives would make Lars von Trier shudder, this three-part film might look on paper like an exercise in forced hipness…. Working under orders tall, whimsical (according to the manifesto, a stuffed animal must make an appearance no matter what) and surreal, Korine's Lotus Community Workshop drops Val Kilmer in an alternate-universe existence...

Although Canada was long ignored as a film producing country, it has produced the English-speaking world’s two greatest filmmakers after 1990. If one of these is David Cronenberg, the other is Atom Egoyan, who, like David Lynch, is an artist whose work is compelling but also bewildering. If Lynch’s films attain their effects partly through Angelo Badalamenti’s music, Egoyan has had an equally important collaboration with composer Mychael Danna. The difference is perhaps that while much of Lynch’s cinema is surreal in some sense, many of Egoyan’s films – the earlier ones – are dominated by the absurd. If the ‘surreal’ is more striking, flamboyant and/or wildly comic, the ‘absurd’ is wrier. Both strive for truths that go beyond the ‘real’ but while the ‘surreal’ seeks out metaphysical and/or social truths the ‘absurd’ attempts to find truths of a personal and/or psychological nature.

Although Egoyan...

HollywoodNews.com: Jennifer Love Hewitt has recently received a not-so-flattering title from ‘Slate’ magazine: Worst Actress since 1985.

Love Hewitt was chosen from 2,700 directors and actors who have made ten or more films in the last 26 years, states TooFab. The cutoff was 1985 as a marking point for modern films.

Chuck Norris was named the worst actor.

French actor Daniel Auteuil and Armenian-Canadian actress Arsinée Khanjian were named the best by critics.

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The snarky statisticians over at online magazine Slate have named Jennifer Love Hewitt the worst actress since 1985. Action star Chuck Norris was named the worst actor. The editors chose from 2,700 directors and actors who have made ten or more films in the last 26 years. Why did they choose 1985 as the cut-off? The explanation is rather lengthy, but basically defines their era for modern films. Using Rotten Tomatoes' infamous "Tomatometer" rating system (where reviewers assign movies a numerical rating, with higher numbers being "fresh" and lower numbers being "rotten"), they calculated Love Hewitt as the worst actress. Her 18.9% overall rating comes from such "rotten" films as " Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit " (7% rating), " I Still Know What You Did Last Summer " (7% rating), and both " Garfield " movies (15% and 11%, respectively). The best actors? French actor Daniel Auteuil (86% overall rating) and Armenian-Canadian actress Arsinée Khanjian (84.7% overall rating). Haven't heard of them? Neither have we.

Perusing the online entertainment news over at the Los Angeles Times, there was a headline that caught my eye right away: "Rotten Tomatoes critics agree: Jennifer Love Hewitt is the worst actress of all time." You see now, as Joanna pointed out yesterday, Rotten Tomatoes allowed Slate.com access to its database--which aggregates movie reviews from critics and publications across the country--and Slate spit out a few interesting "statistics." I didn't set out to necessarily defend Jennifer Love Hewitt's ability, mind you. If I'm going to be honest, I'm not sure I've ever seen her act, other than in a "Ghost Whisperer" commercial. And no, I didn't get the feeling she was anywhere near an Emmy nomination, but these particular statistics are based on movie scores, not individual actor scores.

So if I understand correctly, the way the Hollywood Career-o-Matic rates an actor is by plotting the film scores...

Chicago – So many films come and go without leaving a permanent imprint on one’s cinematic memory. Catherine Breillat’s galvanizing 2001 drama, “Fat Girl,” is most certainly not among them. I’ll never forget the profound level of shock and unease I felt during my initial viewing of the picture, which was eventually followed by a deep admiration of Breillat’s uncompromising bravery in tackling such disquieting material.

Ever since her 1976 directorial debut, “A Real Young Girl,” the French auteur has made a great many moviegoers (particularly of the male persuasion) uncomfortable by depicting primal sexuality from a female perspective. She doesn’t shy away from exploring the awkwardness and confusion that’s often glossed over in most coming of age tales. The dangers posed by predatory men emerge as a tangible threat in her work, though Breillat never follows a predictably moralizing path when dealing with gender conflict.

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In 1922, Robert J. Flaherty gave us Nanook of the North, one of my favourite silent films and an early example of a snow movie--that is, a movie that wouldn't be what it is without its wintry landscape. In some films, snow is incidental--a pretty backdrop or a minor metaphor (like the snowfall that blankets the Bride's duel with O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill Vol. I). In others, a snowy climate is central to the story or sometimes even a character in its own right. Here are 10 movies that each use ice, snow, and cold in a specific way; together, they collectively demonstrate the range one symbol can have.

As with a typical Pajiba Guide, many genres are represented (don't worry Nanook fans -- silent film, documentary, and Inuit culture are all covered below in some form). And as with a typical Guide, apologies must be made for omitting many more...

In the late 90s, Atom Egoyan seemed to be entering the mainstream with the striking The Sweet Hereafter and the creepy Felicia's Journey. But this movie, set in Toronto and starring his wife and muse, Arsinée Khanjian, as a batty schoolteacher, is a ludicrously convoluted tale that deals with the Holocaust, terrorism and several of his recurrent obsessions (appearance and reality, the influence of new technologies and so on) but gets nowhere.

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Precious (15)

(Lee Daniels, 2009, Us)

Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey. 110 mins.

It sounds like a relentlessly depressing pile-up of miseries: the tale of a 1980s Harlem teenager who's poor, lonely, overweight, undereducated, abused by both parents, and pregnant for the second time by her father. And it gets worse after that. But, mercifully, this doesn't play by European social realist rules, throwing in flourishes of fantasy and even comedy, and offering glimmers of hope, real and imagined, to lighten its heroine's unenviable burden. It's still a harrowing watch, powerfully performed and earnestly authentic, but even as it wallows in the gutter, it's looking for the stars.

The Princess And The Frog (U)

(Ron Clements, John Musker, 2009, Us)

Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos. 97 mins.

Another Disney Princess™ for the merchandising range, sorry, cinematic tradition, and the first African-American one. True to latter-day Disney form, she's capable and motivated – until she's turned into a frog,...

Atom Egoyan's fable on memory and truth is wrecked by a terrible lead performance and dubious assertions, writes Peter Bradshaw

Since making this film in 2008, Atom Egoyan has completed another feature – a thriller starring Julianne Moore called Chloe. Egoyan's admirers must be hoping that it is better than this. It could hardly be worse. Adoration is a ­muddled and frankly dubious film featuring Egoyan's partner, Arsinée Khanjian, in the leading role. She gives a bizarrely mannered, supercilious, Razzie-worthy ­performance as Sabine, a teacher of French and drama in a Canadian high school, who one day reads aloud to her pupils a news story about a terrorist who put his pregnant fiancee on a flight to Israel, along with a bomb planted, ­unbeknown to her, in her hand luggage: the device was found and the horror averted. She then privately encourages tightly wound student Simon (Devon Bostick) to ­re-imagine this story,...

One minute he's making uneasy arthouse films, the next he's a Hollywood gun for hire, shooting the likes of Liam Neeson. Can auteur Atom Egoyan really cope with a dip in the mainstream?

A year is a long time in the movies. Fifteen months ago, I met the Canadian film-maker Atom Egoyan as he brought his low-key indie Adoration to the London film festival. The venue was an anonymous hotel cafe. At the festival's next edition, Egoyan returns with a new film, Chloe; this one stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried, and Egoyan is holding forth in a suite at Claridge's in central London. Things have clearly gone well for him.

At our first enconter, in the cafe, Egoyan was nursing a hangover that made him pleasantly effusive. He wasn't what I expected. Even his actors can be confused; before starting work on Adoration, one of its leads,...

With his twelfth feature 'Adoration,' Atom Egoyan remains committed to provocative fare.   Asked how he achieves such intellectual richness in his independent films, filmmaker Atom Egoyan leans closer, flashes a quizzical look and asks for the question to be repeated. Speaking during a lunchtime interview at last fall's Toronto Film Festival, Egoyan struggles to be heard in a hotel restaurant crammed with fellow festival filmmakers, their casts and assorted members of the press. A friend and fellow journalist interrupts our conversation to ask about an upcoming interview and Egoyan flashes an irritated look. It's hard to talk seriously about your serious movie when there's chaos around you.   "People refer to me as an independent filmmaker and I understand why they say that," Egoyan says, resting his elbows on the table. "But the word independent, at least as it means to film, that's confusing to me. I mean my...

We're all for getting out in the summertime, but there might not be anything more refreshing than cooling off in a movie theater... or seeing a movie in the comfort of your air-conditioned home on demand, on DVD, or online... or better yet catching a classic on the big screen at a nearby repertory theater. With literally hundreds of films to choose from this summer, we humbly present this guide to the season's most exciting offerings.

May 1

"Eldorado"

The Cast: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde, Philippe Nahon, Didier Toupy, Franise Chichy

Director: Bouli Lanners

Fest Cred: Cannes, Warsaw, Glasgow, Palm Springs,

The Gist: When Elie (Adde), a hapless young thief attempts to rob Yvan (Lanners), a 40-year-old car dealer, the two form a unlikely friendship that leads to a road trip across Belgium in this slight comedy that won the Best European Film at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes last year.

TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 27th edition Thursday night in a low-key manner for the hometown crowd with the North American premiere of native son Atom Egoyan's Ararat. Eager fans lined up along the red carpet outside Roy Thomson Hall downtown to catch a glimpse of Egoyan, his wife and the film's star, Arsinee Khanjian, and the film's Bruce Greenwood, as well as other stars walking up the red carpet to the entrance lobby. Peppered throughout the onlookers were Teamsters drivers from International Local 847, holding picket signs in protest. Tim Cadeaux, a business agent for Teamsters Local 847, said the protesters were looking for a labor contract with Canadian producers as well as increased wages. Thursday night was a precursor to what's expected over the next 10 days when Hollywood star power descends on Toronto. Warner Bros. Pictures beats the drum tonight for White Oleander, with stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Renee Zellweger and Robin Wright Penn expected to appear on the red carpet. Other galas set to bow over the weekend are Neil Jordan's The Good Thief, the Salma Hayek starrer Frida and Paramount Pictures' The Four Feathers.