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26 August 2008 2:19 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Pontypool will be having it's world premier at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival (and we should have a review for you, yeah!) and is directed by Bruce McDonald (The Tracey Fragments), so I'm quite hopeful even though it sounds like another "hey we're stuck in a building surrounded by zombies" film. "It's set around a small radio station in Pontypool, Ontario. One day our hero, Grant, a talk radio DJ starts to get reports of strange, unnerving acts of violence that are happening in the area. They come realize this because the English language has been infected with a virus." So far so good, now let's get down to what he actually said about the "zombies", or what McDonald's calls "conversationalists". "There are three stages to this to this virus. The first stage is you might begin to repeat a word. Something gets stuck. And usually it's words that

28 July 2008 6:48 PM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

Yes, boys and girls, I think it is safe to say that much loved Canadian director Bruce McDonald is back where he belongs.  After carving out a niche for himelf with intense road pictures like Hard Core Logo - the first major acting gig for Headstones frontman Hugh Dillon, who now plays the lead on Canuck export TV series Flashpoint - Highway 61 and Roadkill, McDonald ended up working largely in television for a number of years.  That’s not necessarily a bad thing, the man worked on some of the best television to come out of this nation in recent days and certainly made Kevin Smith happy by helping to re-launch Degrassi, but McDonald has always belonged in features.

He returned to the big screen last year with The Tracey Fragments, his first feature since 2001, and now he’s back again with Pontypool.  About to take its bow as

Todd Brown

8 July 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Bruce McDonald's adaptation of Maureen Medved's stream-of-consciousness teen novel The Tracey Fragments turns the screen into an ever-shifting mosaic, with anywhere from two to 20 separate images appearing at the same time. Some show different angles on the same action, and some show what's going through the mind of the title character, played by a pre-Juno Ellen Page. Dubbed "the titless wonder" by her peers, Page is a miserable high-school student with a grumpy father and a distant mother. When her younger brother disappears on her watch, Page begins a cold journey through the Toronto night, winding up naked, wrapped in a shower curtain, and riding the city bus. As Page reflects on how she ended up this way, McDonald uses her anxiety as the foundation for an audacious formal experiment, intended to depict the inherent schizophrenia of the adolescent mind. McDonald isn't the first to play with multi-screens,

Noel Murray

3 June 2008 4:09 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Principal photography is underway in Toronto for Pontypool, a new film from director Bruce McDonald (Highway 61, Roadkill and recently, The Tracey Fragments, with Ellen Page). "It is set in a radio station in Pontypool and our morning team took reports in of extreme and bloody incidents of violence. The reason for this violence is that the English language has become infected with a virus," McDonald tells 680 News in an interview. From a script by Tony Burgess, the film stars Stephen McHattie, Daniel Fathers, Georgina Reilly and Beatriz Yuste. The great news is that Pontypool should be ready in time to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, hopefully we'll catch it if it screens.

5 May 2008 8:24 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer and Alison Willmore

This week, "Juno"'s Ellen Page is back in theaters with "The Tracey Fragments," playing another troubled but eloquent teenager girl. Is it safe to say that Page is the wide-eyed, smart-mouthed face of the MySpace generation on the indie screen? In honor of her role, this week on the Ifc News podcast, we take a look at some of the better representations of teens on screen, from "Kes" to "Ghost World."

Download now (MP3: 27:56 minutes, 25.5 Mb) Podcast feeds: [Xml] [iTunes]

[Photo: "The Tracey Fragments," THINKFilm, 2007]

Alison Willmore

5 May 2008 8:14 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

This week sees the return of the Wachowski brothers, Tarsem Singh ("The Cell") and Henry Bean ("The Believer") to the big screen, not to mention new films from documentarians Nick Broomfield ("Tupac and Biggie") and Doug Pray ("Scratch"). On the other hand, after running around Tribeca, we still need to catch up on last week's releases.

"The Babysitters"

The idea of the spunky teenage boy succumbing to the allure of an experienced older woman is the kind of Hollywood golden goose that launches major careers (think Dustin Hoffman). But when the roles are reversed, the result is the directorial debut of David Ross that sees an entrepreneurial high schooler (Katherine Waterston, daughter of Sam) and her friends turn their babysitting ring into a call girl service, realizing there are alternative ways to pay for college besides waiting tables. It stars when one local dad (John Leguizamo) goes

Neil Pedley

6 articles from 2008