Twenty five years ago, writer-director Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter opened the Toronto International Film Festival, after first premiering at Cannes. The deeply poetic, emotional film about a ...

Looking at the film lineup this season, I can see all the standard issues: two standard-issue underdog/loser makes good and shows bullies/populars/government he/she ...

He emerged from Hungary and Toronto to guide such other films as ‘Sunshine,’ ‘The Gate,’ ‘Chéri’ and ‘Owning Mahowny.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Hamori died Sept. 2 in Budapest after a long illness ...

On their previous three albums, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter have pursued a distinctly shadowy alt. country direction, their sorrowful sound packing a high enough gloom count to catch the ...

September 15, 2011 • Sometimes, out of great turmoil comes great beauty — and, in the case of Sykes and her band The Sweet Hereafter, they've translated their woes into a commanding new record. Hear ...

It isn’t every day that a movie comes along about an accident in which a bus load of children are killed. Set to premiere locally today, The Sweet Hereafter has been praised to the skies by critics in ...

This is the first in a series of essays by panellists featured on the new CBC Arts talk show The Filmmakers. A panellist from each episode writes about the film being featured this week, which this ...

"Slowness," says Omar Sharif in the title role of the film Monsieur Ibrahim, "that's the key to happiness." Jesse Sykes might not use those exact words, but the Seattle-based singer-songwriter clearly ...

The third album from Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter-like its predecessors, Reckless Burning and Oh, My Girl-proceeds at a decidedly unhurried pace, but one that could hardly be considered ...

NEW YORK — Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the ...