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More Bruce McDonald: Potential ‘Pontypool’ Sequel, A Michael Ondantje Adaptation, & A Stephen McHattie Jazz Gig

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:00:00 +0000

During the 2010 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, the Playlist sat down with Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald for a looong conversation about myriad projects including his latest film, the Broken Social Scene concert film/narrative feature “This Movie Is Broken” which made its world premiere (read our review) at the fest.

McDonald obviously told us about several projects like his upcoming women-in-prison martial arts film, “Lucky Ho,” the chatty rock girls reconciliation film, “Trigger” a New Orleans-set documentary called, “Music From The Big House,” and his sequel to “Hard Core Logo.”

But of course there’s more for the filmmaker who is easily becoming the most prolific director in the Great White North.

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Box-Office Options: May 29-31: ‘Up,’ ‘Drag Me To Hell’ & ‘Pontypool’

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Your new box-office choices this weekend — if you’re a multiplex denizen only — seem pretty obvious (though remember you don’t have to just see what’s new). You have on one side, the populist, feel-good, by all accounts wonderful, Pixar 3D animated adventure, “Up,” and you have Sam Raimi’s goofball horror comedy, “Drag Me To Hell.”

We loved “Up” and hated “Drag Me To Hell,” but both have extremely good Rotten Tomatoes ratings.

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The Independent Film Festival of Boston Scores ‘Brothers Bloom,’ ‘500 Days Of Summer,’ ‘Big Fan’ ‘The Burning Plain’ And More For Cine-Fete Apr 22-28

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:35:00 +0000

Boston is stepping up it’s game. No we don’t mean the city or its baseball team, we mean the The Independent Film Festival of Boston. Admittedly, we don’t know what the festival was like in 2008, but regardless, this year IFFBoston has firmly put itself on the map with a rather excellent line-up that runs April 22 through 28.

Highlights of the festival include Rian Johnson’s “The Brothers Bloom,” “500 Days of Summer” which includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel and a killer soundtrack, the writer of “The Wrestler”s (Rob Seigel) directorial debut, “Big Fan,” starring comedian Patton Oswalt in a dramatic role, Guillermo Arriaga’s “The Burning Plain” (he used to pen all the Alejandro González Iñárritu films, “Babel,” “21 Grams”), Olivier Assayas’ beautiful and profoundly affecting meditation on the loss of parents in “Summer Hours,” Bruce McDonald’s subversion of the zombie genre with “Pontypool,” and Sundance acclaimded films like, Nicolas Winding Refn’s psychopath flick “Bronson” and Bobcat Goldthwait’s “The World’s Greatest Dad.” It’s like a mini SXSW and Sundance right inside Boston which is pretty impressive.

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The Playlist SXSW Recap Pt 1: ‘Objectified,’ ‘Moon,’ & ‘Pontypool’

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:06:00 +0000

Here’s the top level view, brief recap from Tuesday.

Friday, March 13
We arrived so late on Friday that there wasn’t a lot to see. Still we tried. “New World Order,” the latest documentary, by the director of the D&D-like LARP game, “Darkon,” Luke Meyer, this time working with Andrew Neel, was full and then so was “Ong Bak 2.” So we decided to orient ourselves and have a beer. Technically you could say we saw “I Love You, Man,” for its SXSW Premiere, but we actually saw it weeks ago.

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We’re Back – The Brief SXSW Recap

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:32:00 +0000

We’re back and still exhausted. Thanks to The Playlist scribes Astrud Sands and Gabe Toro for holding down the fort and Jonathan and Jared for their awesome soundtrack features and script reviews.

Blame the lack of updates today so far on me. I slept 13-plus hours after not really sleeping the night before.

Our quick SXSW trip was brief, but awesome and we saw about 10 films in about two days.

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