Based on an Inuit legend and made almost entirely by Inuit filmmakers, this totally absorbing 172-minute feature (2001), winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, is exciting not as ethnography but as ...

"We never knew what he was or why it happened. Evil just came to us." "The Fast Runner" (also known as "Atanarjuat"), inspired by an ancient Inuit myth of evil spirits and human greed, is an ...

Centuries ago, in what would become the Canadian Arctic, Atuat is promised to the malevolent Oki, son of the leader of their tribe. But Atuat loves the good-natured Atanarjuat, who ultimately finds a ...

“Astonish me,” Diaghilev ordered Cocteau, and The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) more than fulfills that regal dictum for new art. The first feature to be made in Inuktitut, directed from a script that is ...

Do yourself a favor and ignore the running time and that thing about subtitles above. Yes, it's almost three hours long, and yes, it's in probably the most foreign of languages. But "The Fast Runner ...

The hot art-house ticket this summer is for one cool movie. Atanarjuat–The Fast Runner has won festival prizes and critics’ raves, and not only because it’s the first fiction feature made about the ...

"Storytelling" is a big buzz in Hollywood these days, with nearly every actor, writer, director and even gaffer saying that stories are what their work is all about. It's a glib line that often erases ...

The first cinematic look at Eskimo life since, well, the silent documentary Nanook of the North in 1922 is not only the first widely distributed movie in the Inuit language but it’s also being hailed ...

The context of the creation -- Seeing the unseen -- The people and the path of Isuma -- Isuma's motives -- The legend and its variants -- Reviews and awards ...

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Tue 3/29 Curated by actor and artist Michael Horse, the Briscoe’s Native Film Series continues with a screening of Zacharias Kunuk’s Canadian epic Atanarjuat: The Fast ...

Every 80 years, like clockwork, someone makes a terrific Eskimo movie. In 1922, it was Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty's partly fictionalized documentary about a year in the life of an Inuit ...