- Actors: Atom Egoyan, Arsinee Khanjian, Ashot Adamian
- Format: NTSC, Color, DTS Surround Sound
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
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- Studio: Alliance Films
- Release Date: May 3 2005
- Run Time: 85 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000065K3E
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #44,456 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Amazon.ca Canadian Essential
Calendar is one of Atom Egoyan's most courageous works: Technically experimental but also very human. This strange but beautiful tale about a love triangle involving a photographer, his wife, and their guide as they travel through Armenia is required viewing for fans of Egoyan, one of Canada's most critically acclaimed and influential filmmakers.
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Calendar cuts back and fourth between dinner dates a photographer (Atom Egoyan) has in his Toronto home, and flashbacks of a trip he made to Armenia to get shots of rural churches for a calendar. Accompanying him on the trip was his wife (Egoyan's real wife, Arsinee Khanjian), an Armenian who acted as his translator, and a local guide (Ashot Adamian) who spoke no English. Marital tensions ensue and a romantic triangle forms, with the photographer being increasingly excluded from the Armenian conversations his wife has with the guide. Writer-director Atom Egoyan is one of Canada's most critically revered filmmakers and this--probably his most neglected film--is arguably one of his best. Often noted for films told with cerebral detachment (like fellow Canadian filmmakers David Cronenberg and Denys Arcand), Calendar is Egoyan's most technically experimental movie, and also his most human and empathetic. It's hauntingly atmospheric, thanks to the location filming in Armenia, and also boasts a nice score of modern Western rock and traditional Armenian folk music. --D.K. Latta
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Armenians must know their history,
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This review is from: Calendar (Full Screen) (DVD)
Our duty as Armenians is to Remember and pass the memory to next generation and make the tragedy known to the world, this movie does it the best way... excellent, something to have at home and watch it over and over..it is good acting, excellent plot, love and history...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An artistic representation of New World existance...,
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The foreign languages in Calendar represents a world of immediate and authentic and real, uncalculated, uncategorized, or unanalyzed feeling. English, which is the only language which the male protagonist knows, represents the cultural parameters of the New World: utiliatarian, organizaed about doing things and doing them efficiently, and disengaged from any kind of here and now viscerality. All of the women in Calendar speak other langugages and they represent not merely other languages and backgrounds, but also a richer, more real, more authentically emotional, romantic, human, and passionate reality. The "star" of Calendar doesn't have an idiom of expression except that of a new world society in which doing and accomplishing and making and showing have all the value and the needs of people as spirits is not only ignored, but are also inexpressible. That spiritual paucity of new world existence is explored by Egoyan through his own ethnicity, background, and source culture. The man in that film lost something in being raised in Canada and doesn't know what it is or how to get it back. He only senses that the Armenian guide he is filming with his wife has something to give his wife that he will never have. This is a very brave, experimental movie which works well. The pacing is even and the scenes appear in a very precise manner.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funny, sad.....,
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This review is from: Calendar (Full Screen) (DVD)
CALENDAR is a funny little quirky film made by Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), directed by Atom Egoyan, and starring Atom Egoyan. The plot is simple-a photographer of Armenian descent (Egoyan) travels to the land of his ancestors to take photographs of old churches for a calendar he is developing. A woman translator, apparently his significant other (maybe his wife?), accompanies him. The photographer hires a local man to drive them through the countryside. As the party travels, it becomes clear that the photographer is only interested in getting his next shot while his female companion is becoming enamored with Armenia. Acting as a guide as well as a driver, the Armenian man begins to share his knowledge of each place with the woman. The photographer cannot speak Armenian and he becomes irritated with the delays caused by these exchanges and what he suspects is a growing attraction. The story is told in several chapters-each one framed by a still photo of a church. In each episode, the narrator (the photographer now returned to Canada) is in his apartment sharing a meal with a different woman. In each instance, the woman rises from the table to use a phone located near the wall where the calendar hangs. The viewer is transported into a succession of photographs of churches-each with a story. If you have stared a photograph of some beautiful place and thought how wonderful it would be to be transported through the frame and into the picture, you will enjoy this film. The artist creates a vehicle for conveying you to an enchanted haunted place that despite his onscreen characterization he obviously loves. Egoyan has created a funny, poignant, and moving tale and a small masterpiece you won't soon forget.
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