Atom Egoyan Articles

Tribeca Film Festival 2011 Jury: Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Wilson, Souleymane Cissé, Michael Cera 2011 Tribeca Film Festival jurors and their respective categories. World Competition Categories: The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition are: Souleymane Cissé: Noted Malian director; films include the 1995 Cannes Palme d’Or nominee Waati, 1987 Cannes Jury Prize Winner Brightness and Tell Me Who You Are. Scott Glenn: Actor; films include [...]

THE SWEET HEREAFTER Review: Part I Another side story focuses — of course — on the lone man in town, Billy Ansell, who, out of principle, refuses to be part of Stevens’ suit. Played by the always engaging Bruce Greenwood, Billy is a widower involved in an adulterous affair with the owner of the local motel, Risa Walker (Alberta Watson, who has an utterly pointless [...]

THE SWEET HEREAFTER (1997) Direction: Atom Egoyan Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson, Caerthan Banks, Maury Chaykin Screenplay: Atom Egoyan; from Russell Banks' novel Oscar Movies Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, The Sweet Hereafter By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: Some films are well crafted but lifeless. Others err by believing they can too readily make an audience care for [...]

Ben Stiller, Jennifer Jason Leigh in Noah Baumbach's Greenberg (top); Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore in Atom Egoyan's Chloe (upper middle); Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist in Niels Arden Oplev's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (lower middle); Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart in Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways (bottom) Among the movies in limited release, those screening in less than 500 venues, the Noah Baumbach-Ben Stiller comedy Greenberg [...]