EPISODE · Feb 11, 2026 · 2 MIN
PREVIEW - #690 - The Egoyan Identity
from Michael and Us · host Luke Savage and Will Sloan
Who says a 23-year-old WASP can't be the long-lost son of an Armenian immigrant family? That's the question asked by the protagonist of Atom Egoyan's debut feature NEXT OF KIN (1984), a moving and sometimes troubling film about identity and class in 1980s Canada. PLUS: We survey the wreckage from Jeff Bezos's Washington Post layoffs. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/690-egoyan-150508725
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Who says a 23-year-old WASP can't be the long-lost son of an Armenian immigrant family? That's the question asked by the protagonist of Atom Egoyan's debut feature NEXT OF KIN (1984), a moving and sometimes troubling film about identity and class in 1980s Canada. PLUS: We survey the wreckage from Jeff Bezos's Washington Post layoffs. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/690-egoyan-150508725
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