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"The Sweet Hereafter" isn't a wholly terrible episode but it's definitely a let down.
Many artists have also seen their music sales boom after embracing the sweet hereafter.
Just as "The Sweet Hereafter" was proving to be somewhat lackluster several events happened I wasn't expecting.
Especially since the season 1 finale, "The Sweet Hereafter," ended with so many shocking moments that have got fans talking.
"It's not just people in the tech industry talking about this," Mr. Banks, the author of "Affliction" and "The Sweet Hereafter," said.
"The Sweet Hereafter" turns away from the Blossom family drama, which you'd expect to get a lot of, considering Cliff's suicide, to develop other narrative threads.
Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter operates under a non-linear, shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later structure, which asks (nay, requires) the viewer to piece the events together themselves.
Good Will Hunting was released two weeks after The Sweet Hereafter, and it's a far more mainstream drama with its own potent story of overcoming the traumas of the past.
In the season 1 finale, "The Sweet Hereafter," Betty (Lili Reinhart) and Jughead nearly sleep together before they're interrupted by the Southside Serpents, who very much want to welcome Jughead into their gang.
With our excitement for season 2 only growing, we can't help but wonder if any milkshakes were harmed in the surprising final scene in Pop's Diner — surely they didn't call that episode "The Sweet Hereafter" for no reason.
In 2005, actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley (Go, The Sweet Hereafter) published a letter she sent to director Terry Gilliam about her experience as a 9-year-old actor on Gilliam's 1988 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Still, all I could imagine was the scene in "The Sweet Hereafter," where parka-clad children wave out the back window of their school bus just before it skids off the road, slides down an embankment and sinks into a lake.
Here is CineFix's list of the 10 best:The Mirror (oneiric)The Sweet Hereafter (nonlinear)Before the Rain (circular narrative)Rashomon (repetition)Irreversible (backwards)Citizen Kane (ending first)Ajami (hyperlink cinema)Godfather II (multiple timeline)High Noon (single uninterrupted stream)Die Hard (three act)
But The Sweet Hereafter, based on Russell Banks's novel, is not just about the accident or its aftermath—which is clear early on via the key image of a couple and baby asleep together, a visual first revealed without explanation before being given weighty context.
Polley, one of the stars of The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and the teen movie Go (1999) who instead opted for an arthouse career directing films like Away From Her (2006) and Take This Waltz (2011), here interviews her siblings, her father, and her family's friends about her late mother, Diane, a Canadian actor who died when Polley was a child.
The Sweet Hereafter is the soundtrack album to the 1997 Canadian film The Sweet Hereafter.
They formed the band Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter. Members of The Sweet Hereafter included Anne Marie Ruljancich on viola, Bill Herzog on bass, Kevin Warner on drums (on first two albums) and Eric Eagle on drums. In 1999 Sykes met producer Tucker Martine who recorded and produced the first three albums of The Sweet Hereafter. 2011's "Marble Son" was produced by Sykes and Wandscher along with engineer Mell Dettmer.
1\. Robert Duvall - The Apostle 2\. Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold 3\. Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog 3\. Ian Holm - The Sweet Hereafter 3\.
The Globe and Mail, December 8, 1994. and The Sweet Hereafter."Egoyan film wins 8 Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 15, 1997.
The iTunes bonus track version has four bonus tracks: 12. Sleepyhead (Acoustic Version) 13. The Sweet Hereafter 14. Where The Green Grass Grows 15.
His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He has written fiction, and more recently, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997 (see The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction).
Sykes was previously married to musician Jim Sykes. She was in a 10-year relationship with Sweet Hereafter bandmate, Phil Wandscher. Sykes is currently living in Iowa.
Although The Sweet Hereafter was not a box office success, it was critically acclaimed and won three awards, including the Grand Prix, at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, along with seven Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture. It also received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Toronto International Film Festival critics named The Sweet Hereafter one of the top 10 Canadian films of all time.
The film garnered Williams a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 18th Genie Awards."Sweet Hereafter leads the Genie award pack". The Province, November 5, 1997.
Beth Pasternak is a Canadian costume designer. She has worked on films with director Atom Egoyan, such as The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Ararat (2002) and Where the Truth Lies, as well as Kevin Smith's 2011 horror film Red State. Pasternak was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Costume Design for The Sweet Hereafter. For Ararat, she had to have historically-modeled costumes made by hand, and won the Genie Award for Best Costume Design.
1st TFCA Awards January 13, 1998 \---- Best Film: The Sweet Hereafter The 1st Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1997, were held on 13 January 1998.
Jesse Sykes (née Solomon) (born July 17, 1967) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her band Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, which was formed in 1999 with Phil Wandscher.
Director Atom Egoyan adapted Russell Banks' novel The Sweet Hereafter and incorporated The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Canadian director Atom Egoyan adapted the screenplay after his wife, actress Arsinée Khanjian, suggested he read Russell Banks' The Sweet Hereafter. The novel is inspired by an incident in Alton, Texas, in 1989, in which a bus crash killed 21 students, leading to multiple lawsuits. Egoyan found it initially challenging to acquire the rights, as they had been optioned to another studio that was not actually producing it.
"Film is '60s surreal: Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati funny and disconcerting". Montreal Gazette, May 24, 1997. The film garnered Williams a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 18th Genie Awards."Sweet Hereafter leads the Genie award pack".
Off for the Sweet Hereafter is a 1986 novel by T. R. Pearson. The story opens with a sentence over 400 words long. This opening sets the stage for the rambling tone of the entire novel, which consists more of digressions than of straightforward plot.
Atom Egoyan in 2017 Atom Egoyan is shown setting up several television sets in a large room. The television sets show excerpts from Egoyan's films Next of Kin, Family Viewing, Calendar, The Adjuster, The Sweet Hereafter, Speaking Parts, Exotica, A Portrait of Arshile, and Citadel.
Some community residents criticized some of the victims' families as they used the settlement money to make large automobile or house purchases, and some community members expected those receiving settlements to lend money to them; this caused estrangement between the recipients of the settlements and other community members. In May 1990 a guardrail system along FM 676 at the accident site was installed by the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation, as the City of Alton had requested. Other guardrails were installed around area caliche pits. The 1991 novel The Sweet Hereafter received inspiration from the Alton bus crash; it was adapted into the 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter.
At the 18th Genie Awards in 1997, she received two simultaneous nominations for Best Supporting Actress, for both Karmina and The Countess of Baton Rouge."Sweet Hereafter leads the Genie award pack". The Province, November 5, 1997. In 1999, she played Linda in a French-language production of Death of a Salesman at Montreal's Théâtre Jean-Duceppe.
First edition (publ. Harper Collins) The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks. It is set in a small town in the aftermath of a deadly school bus accident that has killed most of the town's children. The novel was adapted into an award-winning 1997 film of the same name by Canadian director Atom Egoyan.
According to Johnson, strangers often tell her stories. An older woman on a bus once told her about the man she'd fallen in love with as a teenager. War had kept them apart but they'd stayed in touch and the woman had plans to see him again. This became the inspiration for her characters Sweet and Curtis in Sweet, Hereafter.
The closure of Andy's Diner followed the earlier closure of another train-themed Seattle restaurant – the Iron Horse – and prompted the Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely to eulogize that in "the sweet hereafter ... the Big Engineer in the sky makes a choice between Andy's and the Iron Horse". Menus from Andy's Diner are archived in the special collections unit of the Seattle Public Library.
Camelia Frieberg (born 1959) is a Canadian film producer and director."Champion of Canadian film gets her salute: Sweet Hereafter producer Camelia Frieberg is Vancouver Women in Film and Video's woman of the year". Vancouver Sun, February 26, 1999. She is a two-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Picture, as producer of Atom Egoyan's films Exotica"Egoyan and Exotica dominate Genies".
It is produced by CBC Arts. The first season was hosted by journalist Johanna Schneller and focused on "the greatest Canadian films and filmmakers of the last 20 years." Those films included The Sweet Hereafter, Stories We Tell, I Killed My Mother, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Water, Incendies, War Witch and Manufactured Landscapes."CBC does Saturday Night At The Movies with a Canadian twist".
Movies partially shot on location in the community of Stouffville include: The Russell Girl (2008), Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming (2007), Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000), On Hostile Ground (2000), Strike! (1998), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Bad Day on the Block (1997), Martin's Day (1984), and The Dead Zone (1983). Television shows shot in Stouffville include episodes from Warehouse 13 (2010), The West Wing,West Wing Episode Guide, Opposition Research.
"One More Colour" is a song by the Canadian singer/songwriter Jane Siberry. It is the first single released in support of her third album The Speckless Sky, issued in 1985. Composer Mychael Danna later rearranged the song for the 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter, where it is performed by Sarah Polley.Miguel Mera, Mychael Danna's The Ice Storm: A Film Score Guide, The Scarecrow Press, 2007, p. 41.
It was filmed while Clarkes was living on the top floor of Vancouver's historical Sylvia Hotel. In 2016, the actor Tony Pantages portrayed Clarkes in director Rachel Talalay's Leo Award-winning film (for Best TV Film), called On The Farm. Clarkes has had solo exhibitions in Vancouver, Toronto and Seattle. His photographs have been used in the feature films Everything's Gone Green, by Douglas Coupland, directed by Paul Fox, and Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter.
Thompson describes it as, "a silent film that speaks through a series of post-structuralist and surrealist signifiers in conversation." The triptych of shorts Ms. Thompson wrote and directed titled, Alyssa, about a young woman coming to terms with her diagnosis and undergoing chemo, thereby forfeiting her ability to have children, was acknowledged as an outstanding initiative by the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology. It stars Rhonda Dent and Gabrielle Rose of The Sweet Hereafter.
Merritt provided the backdrop for the Academy Award-nominated movie The Sweet Hereafter. The debut episode of Smallville was partly filmed on location in Merritt. Jack Nicholson's The Pledge and the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man were also filmed partly in the area. In 2013 Shana: The Wolf's Music directed by Nino Jacusso was released, it is a drama about a First Nations girl coming of age set in a First Nations location.
In 2010, Sykes sang at All Tomorrow's Parties in Monticello, New York with the festival's headliner Altar, a collaborative project (as well as album name) between Sunn O))) and Boris. The festival was curated by the film director Jim Jarmusch. That same weekend Sykes also performed in Altar at Brooklyn's Masonic Temple. The show was opened by BXI, the collaborative project with Ian Astbury, front person of The Cult, and Boris, followed by Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter.
By February 1999, The Red Violin had grossed $2 million in Canada, surpassing the previous year's winner of the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture, The Sweet Hereafter. By August 1999, the film grossed $6 million in the United States, which Lions Gate Entertainment declared "a huge success for a specialty film". It was the distributor's most successful Canadian film of the year. The film finished its run having made US$10 million in the United States.
The film, made by a collective of then- emerging young directors, was considered an unofficial sequel to Montreal Stories (Montréal vu par...), a 1991 anthology film by six more established filmmakers. The film was Canada's submission to the 70th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not make the shortlist.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences It was also a shortlisted nominee for Best Motion Picture at the 18th Genie Awards, but lost to The Sweet Hereafter.
One City One Book programs take the idea of a localized book discussion club and expand it to cover a whole city. The first such program was "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book" in 1998, started by Nancy Pearl at Seattle Public Library's Washington Center for the Book. The book chosen for the program was 'The Sweet Hereafter' by Russell Banks, written in 1991. Other cities copied the idea, and the Library of Congress listed 404 programs occurring in 2007.
The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1997, and went on to play at the Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, New York Film Festival and Valladolid International Film Festival. In Canada, the film was distributed by Alliance Communications. Following its screening at Cannes, Fine Line Features secured rights for the film for distribution in the United States, releasing it there on October 10, 1997. In Region 1, The Sweet Hereafter was released on DVD in May 1998.
Pearson was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was a student at North Carolina State University, where he gained a BA and MA in English. He went on to teach at Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina. He started work on a PhD in Pennsylvania but soon returned to North Carolina, where he worked as a carpenter and a housepainter while he began writing his first two novels, A Short History of a Small Place and Off for the Sweet Hereafter.
Phil Wandscher is the former guitarist of the alt-country band Whiskeytown, and is now a member of Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter. Wandscher appeared on Death Cab For Cutie's album Transatlanticism, singing backing vocals on the album's title track. He also contributed lead guitar to two Nada Surf tracks: "Comes a Time", from the 2005 release The Weight Is a Gift, and "Are You Lightning", from 2008's Lucky. Wandscher also performs with Jon Langford's "glam-voodoo space rock" project Bad Luck Jonathan.
Inspiration for I Love You, Apple, I Love You, Orange was drawn from a variety of sources including, Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Kristen Kosmas's play The Mayor of Baltimore, and the films The Hole, What Time Is It There?, Alice, The Sweet Hereafter, Punch-Drunk Love, and Brief Encounter. Real foods were used as stop-animated characters. A single ham, playing a major role, was used during the entire year and a half of production.
The Seattle Times said; "Rolling Stone magazine called Sykes' brooding, emotionally-raw album "quiet marvels of lamentation," and "Oh, My Girl" made a handful of Top 10 of 2004 lists." According to the Miami New Times, "At this time the band spent the majority of time on the road, mostly in Europe where The Sweet Hereafter received its earliest accolades." The band played the Roskilde musical festival in Denmark in 2004. In 2005, Conor Oberst, a fan of the band, invited them to tour with his band Bright Eyes.
Sparklehorse was dropped from its label during the tour with the Sweet Hereafter, which Sykes described as a "bomb dropped on the Sparklehorse camp—most critically on Mark Linkous" in an article for the Seattle Weekly she authored describing her experience touring with Mark Linkous. The song, "Birds Of Passerine" on Marble Son was written by Sykes for Mark Linkous after his death. In 2008 the band toured with Earth and Black Mountain. In 2009 Sykes and Wandscher wrote and recorded original music for The Seattle Shakespeare Company's performance of "The Tempest".
Atom Egoyan, (; born July 19, 1960) is an Armenian-Canadian stage and film director, writer, and producer. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter (1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations, and his biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe (2009). His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy, or other power structures.
Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor and producer. He is known for his role as the American president John F. Kennedy in Thirteen Days, for which he won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and as Captain Christopher Pike in J. J. Abrams's Star Trek reboot series. He has been nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards, once for Best Actor (for Elephant Song) and twice for Best Supporting Actor (for The Sweet Hereafter and Being Julia). In television, Greenwood starred as Gil Garcetti in The People v.
Jake Smith performed several songs on the crime drama television series Sons of Anarchy. Most notably, in 2014, he and The Forest Rangers performed the Season 7 finale song, "Come Join The Murder", written by the show's creator Kurt Sutter. Other songs appearing on Sons of Anarchy include "Matador", "Damned", "Wish It Was True", "House of The Rising Sun" (with The Forest Rangers), "The Whistler", "Set My Body Free", "Sweet Hereafter", "Oh Darling, what have I done" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" (with The Forest Rangers). In 2015, the album Love and the Death of Damnation was released.
Joel RL Phelbs at Club W71, Weikersheim (2014) Joel RL Phelps is a songwriter originally from Montana and was part of the indie rock band Silkworm. He left that band in 1994 and since has recorded his own material. He recorded his first non-Silkworm album in 1995 in Seattle with members of other bands such as Jessamine, Citizens' Utilities, Engine Kid, and the Deflowers assisting. The following records pared down the members to a trio including Joel, Bill Herzog (Citizens' Utilities, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Sunn O)))), and Robert Mercer (the Deflowers, Treasure State, Zebra Hunt).
Sarah Ellen Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, producer and political activist. Polley first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. Subsequently this led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996). She has starred in many feature films, including Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Guinevere (1999), Go (1999), The Weight of Water (2000), My Life Without Me (2003), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Splice (2009), and Mr. Nobody (2009).
A Stone's Throw marks the directorial debut of Camelia Frieberg, previously known for her producing work on films such as Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter. Frieberg stated that she was inspired to write a film based on the premise that "there's very little in society that allows you to understand that each of your actions has a consequence ... on the planet, on other people, and on other species." The film was shot in and around Frieberg's home in Halifax, Nova Scotia over the course of 15 days. At the 2006 Atlantic Film Festival it was awarded best Atlantic feature, and best sound design.
Paul Sarossy, , , (born April 24, 1963) is a Canadian cinematographer and film director. He is known for his collaborations with director Atom Egoyan, serving as his director of photography on twelve feature films (Speaking Parts, The Adjuster, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia's Journey, Ararat, Where the Truth Lies, Adoration, Chloe, Devil's Knot, The Captive & Remember).Paul Sarossy CSC/BSC, Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers. He has won five Genie Awards for Best Achievement in Cinematography, a Gemini Award, and five Canadian Society of Cinematographers awards, as well as being nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and an Independent Spirit Award.
She then returned to Toronto and focused on finding roles in independent films. She worked with director Colleen Murphy on the film Shoemaker (1996), for which she received a second Genie nomination for Best Actress. Among her well-known film roles are the bed-ridden mother Susan Aibelli in the 1994 American independent film Spanking the Monkey, Lauren Murphy (the mother of Jonny Lee Miller's character Dade, aka "Crash Override"/"Zero Cool") in the 1995 cult film Hackers, and Risa in the 1997 Academy Award-nominated Canadian film The Sweet Hereafter, directed by Atom Egoyan. In Spanking the Monkey, Watson plays her favorite character,Profile TVGuide/Yahoo Chat, January 7, 1999.
Neither was published until 1985, when he moved to New York City, where both books were issued by Linden Press. His novels are set in the South, in the imaginary small town of Neely, near Winston–Salem, or, in his recent novels, in the Appalachian areas of Virginia, where he now lives. His writing captures a uniquely Southern social order, outlook, and voice and has been compared to the work of Mark Twain and William Faulkner. A Short History of a Small Place, Off for the Sweet Hereafter, The Last of How It Was, Cry Me a River, Polar and Blue Ridge were New York Times Notable Books.
In 1927, Jean Epstein's La glace à trois faces (The Three Sided Mirror) features a sequence where the events happen in reverse, beginning with the protagonist's exit from a room until the viewer sees the entrance. The Czech comedy Happy End (1966) is a farce which starts with a guillotined man finding his head popped back on his shoulders and ends with him as a new-born being pushed back into his mother's womb. Atom Egoyan, influenced by Pinter's plays, tells the story of The Sweet Hereafter (1997) in reverse chronology, with the first scene of the film set in 1977 and the last in 1968.MacDermott, Felim; & McGrath, Declan (2003). Screenwriting.
The Sweet Hereafter is a multiple first person narrative depicting life in a small town in Upstate New York in the wake of a terrible school bus accident in which numerous local children are killed. Hardly able to cope with the loss, their grieving parents are approached by a slick city lawyer who wants them to sue for damages. At first the parents are reluctant to do so, but eventually they are persuaded by the lawyer that filing a class action lawsuit would ease their minds and also be the right thing to do. As most of the children are dead, the case now depends on the few surviving witnesses to say the right things in court.
The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, and Bruce Greenwood, and adapted from the 1991 novel of the same name by Russell Banks. The film tells the story of a school bus accident in a small town that results in the deaths of numerous children. A class-action lawsuit ensues, proving divisive in the community and becoming tied with personal and family issues. The film, inspired by the 1989 Alton, Texas, bus crash, was filmed in British Columbia and Ontario, incorporating a film score with medieval music influences and references to the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Egoyan began making films in the early 1980s; his debut film Next of Kin (1984) world-premiered at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg and won a major prize. His commercial breakthrough came with the film Exotica (1994). He received the Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association) in Brussels, the FIPRESCI Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and Best Motion Picture at the Canadian Screen Awards (then called the Genie Awards). However, it was Egoyan's first attempt at adapted material that resulted in his best-known work, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), which earned him three prizes at the 50th Cannes Film Festival—the Grand Prix, the FIPRESCI Jury Prize, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
Greenwood at the 39th Primetime Emmy Awards, 1987 Greenwood is known in the United States for his appearances in Star Trek; I, Robot; Double Jeopardy; The Core; Thirteen Days (in which he played president John F. Kennedy); Capote, (in which he played Jack Dunphy, Truman Capote's lover); Eight Below, (in which he played Professor Davis McClaren); and Firehouse Dog. He is also known for his role in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as the voice of Overlord. He had prominent roles in the award-winning Atom Egoyan films Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, and Ararat. He appeared in the 1980s teen cult film The Malibu Bikini Shop and starred in Mee-Shee: The Water Giant.
A number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood significantly contributed to the creation of the motion picture industry in the early days of the 20th century. Over the years, many Canadians have made enormous contributions to the American entertainment industry, although they are frequently not recognized as Canadians. Standard Theatre, 482 Queen Street West, Toronto, 1906 Canada has developed a vigorous film industry that has produced a variety of well-known films, actors and actresses. In fact, this eclipsing may sometimes be creditable for the bizarre and innovative directions of some works, such as auteurs Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, 1997) and David Cronenberg (The Fly, Naked Lunch, A History of Violence) and the avant-garde work of Michael Snow and Jack Chambers.
Polley appeared as Lily on the CBC television series Straight Up. It ran from 1996 to 1998 and she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series for her role. Polley's subsequent role as Nicole Burnell in the 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter brought her considerable attention in the United States; she was a favourite at the Sundance Film Festival. Her character in the film was an aspiring singer, and on the film's soundtrack, she performed covers of The Tragically Hip's "Courage" and Jane Siberry's "One More Colour," as well as the film's title track, which she co- wrote with Mychael Danna. In 1998, Polley appeared in the critically acclaimed film Last Night.
The Iron Horse was a hamburger restaurant in Seattle, Washington established in 1971 by Charlie Maslow. Located in Pioneer Square, food orders at the restaurant were delivered by model trains which moved along a track that circled the dining area. The Iron Horse closed in 2000, its then-owners citing increasing rents created by the dot com boom, combined with a loss of event business occasioned by the demolition of the Kingdome, as reasons for its shuttering. After the closure of the Iron Horse, the subsequent closing of another train-themed Seattle restaurant – Andy's Diner – prompted the Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely to eulogize that in "the sweet hereafter ... the Big Engineer in the sky makes a choice between Andy's and the Iron Horse".
He formed the electro-rock band Petrol with French musician Julie Peel, although they failed to progress far; nonetheless, this was Peel's first entry into music, and she enjoyed working with someone who was "kind of famous" in Ireland, although they, "never actually played a gig - only did studio work and rehearsed". A more substantial effort was known as AV8 (sometimes "Aviate"). This began in 1998 when Healy and Niamh McDonald began a writing and performing partnership, to be joined about a year later by French guitarist Morgan Pincot. AV8 recorded an album called Tremor, and was still a going concern in 2002, albeit with a name change to "Sweet Hereafter", but may now be defunct as Healy, with David Morrissey, is currently part of Mark Cullen's Pony Club.
The soft-drink truck was owned by Valley Coca-Cola, a division of the soft drink giant.Tony McAdams, Blame and the Sweet Hereafter, Legal Studies Forum Volume 24, Numbers 3 & 4 (2000) The bus manufacturer was sued on the grounds that the standard rear emergency door should have been supplemented with an exit on the left side of the bus which would have permitted most or all of the children to escape (this crash had occurred only months after another bus disaster in Kentucky in which the number of emergency exits played a role in fatalities). The community of Alton was sued because the pit was not thoroughly barricaded. The State Bar of Texas sought to bring actions against lawyers whom it believed to be paying people to refer clients to them.
Pastko received a Dora nomination for his performance in La Ronde and a Jessie nomination for The Ends of The Earth. His most recent stage appearances were as Lars in The Company Theatre's production of Festen and as Alexander Stern in The Rant, presented by Chicago's Mary Arrcher Theatre Co. His best known film roles are as Satan in Bruce McDonald's Highway 61; as Hartley Otis in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter; as the artist in Jeremy Podeswa's Eclipse; and the hotel detective in David Weaver's Century Hotel. Pastko worked with George A. Romero (Land of the Dead); Eugene Levy (Sodbusters); and Roger Christian (Masterminds and Battlefield Earth). Pastko's television appearances include Street Justice, Highlander, Street Legal, Kung Fu, Lonesome Dove, Poltergeist, Lexx, Stargate, La Femme Nikita, Once A Thief, The Eleventh Hour, This Is Wonderland, Zixx, Living in Your Car and The Murdoch Mysteries.
McCamus' role as struggling actor Henry Adler in I Love a Man in Uniform (1993), directed by David Wellington resulted in him winning the Genie Award for Best Actor. McCamus has been nominated for the Genie Award on two occasions since, for Long Day's Journey into Night (1996), also directed by Wellington, in which McCamus reprised his successful performance as Edmund Tyrone from the Stratford Festival, and for the Oscar-nominated The Sweet Hereafter (1997), directed by Atom Egoyan. McCamus came to the attention of a wider audience playing the villainous Mason Eckhart in the Marvel TV series Mutant X. Although McCamus proved sufficiently popular that he appeared in every episode of the first season, something that was not originally planned, he quit the show to star as Richard III and Mack the Knife at the Stratford Festival. He only returned to Mutant X to make occasional appearances in the second and third seasons.
He continued to perform Shakespeare, and appeared with Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989) and as Polonius to Mel Gibson's Hamlet (1990). Holm was reunited with Kenneth Branagh in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), playing the father of Branagh's Victor Frankenstein."Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)" British Film Institute. Retrieved 20 June 2020. Holm raised his profile in 1997 with two prominent roles, as the stressed but gentle priest Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element and lawyer Mitchell Stephens in The Sweet Hereafter. In 2001 he starred in From Hell as the physician Sir William Withey Gull. The same year, he appeared as Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, having previously played Bilbo's nephew Frodo Baggins in the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. He returned for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), for which he shared a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
He now produces films through his production company Serendipity Point Films. Lantos has produced 40 feature films. His credits include the Golden Globe Winner and Academy Award nominated Barney's Version, Golden Globe nominated and Academy Award nominated Eastern Promises, Fugitive Pieces, winner, Best Actor at the Rome Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at the Sydney Film Festival. Golden Globe- nominated and Academy Award-nominated Being Julia, Golden Globe nominated Sunshine, the Cannes Grand Prix winner and Academy Award nominated The Sweet Hereafter, Berlin Silver Bear winner eXistenZ, Cannes Ecumenical Prize winner Adoration, Cannes Special Jury Prize winner Crash, Cannes International Critics Prize winner Exotica, Genie Award winners, Where the Truth Lies, Black Robe, In Praise of Older Women, and Canadian domestic box office phenomenon Men With Brooms. Another five of his films have been a part of the Cannes Official Selection: Night Magic (1985), Joshua Then and Now (1985, In Competition), Felicia’s Journey (1999, In Competition), Stardom (2000, Closing Night), Ararat (2002), Where The Truth Lies (2005, In Competition).

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