Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're talking about the saint of Canadian cinema.

Yeah.

It is Adam O'Goyan.

Yeah, if you, you know, are interested in cinema in Canada, if you followed the Canadian

film industry, if you grew up in the 90s in Canada, it was impossible to not hear about

Adam McGoyan.

He was Canada's official filmmaker, perhaps even still is.

However, I feel like whenever I hear him these days, I hear people ragging on him.

The sweet hereafter is considered one of the greatest Canadian films of all time.

Sure.

Like, you cannot read any textbook without that film coming up.

But there's something about the fact that because he became, you know, the king of Canadian cinema,

even though he made these difficult and penetrable art films in the 80s, he's regarded as this kind of establishment figure now. And the fact that, I mean, frankly, he's been on a bit of a losing streak lately, I think, makes him, it just makes him like the perfect easy target for people who want to complain about the Canadian film industry. Yeah, when you're talking about funding or something like that, you go, look at Adam McGoyan. Why does Adam McGoyan, you know, ten flops in a row? Why does he keep getting money? And I sympathize with that somewhat, to be honest. We got to say right off the top, too, that Adam McGoyan, as people that live in Toronto ourselves, he may be the filmmaker who it's the most probable that this could somehow get back to him.

Yeah.

Like, people that live in Toronto ourselves, he may be the filmmaker who it's the most probable

that this could somehow get back to him. Yeah. Like, we joked about Paul Gross and stuff like that, but when we mentioned to people that we were doing an Adam Magorian episode, everybody had a story of meeting him personally. Yeah, I've met him. Have you met him? No, I have not. Okay. Well, I assume that, like, I have come across him, but I didn't know who he was.

I see met him. Have you met him? No, I have not. Okay. Well, I assume that, like,

I have come across him, but I didn't know who he was. I see him around at a lot of stuff, especially at the lightbox, you know. And you interviewed him, didn't you? When I was 18 years old, he was one of the first people I interviewed at the school newspaper at U of T, yeah. And did you feel you got a good interview out of him?

Yeah, it was very forthright, very pleasant.

You know, it was really cool for me just coming out of the suburbs, coming downtown, working at the paper, and now I get to like spend an hour in the company of this great Canadian filmmaker. Yeah, like it was a big ego boost at the time. And you mentioned last episode as well that you've seen all of his movies up to a certain point. There was a feeling that these were important. Yeah, definitely. But then the losing streak

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