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Review: ‘Tracey Fragments’ Is, Well, Fragmented, But At Times Beautiful

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:16:00 +0000

“The Tracey Fragments” is going to be polarizing in the blogosphere, we can feel it. Not so much for the splintered film techniques (more on that later), but more because of hot-button topic actress Ellen Page whose role in “Juno,” seemed to provoke a lot of ire of many a blogger and armchair critic who evidently hates teen girls that deign to speak in pop-cultural tones.

No Diablo Cody isn’t with her this time, but instead of playing a 17-18 year old smarmy kid, Page now plays a melodramatic 15 year old with a sarcastic streak – just not as pronounced and not as obnoxiously clever (it’s a different role, not in a different universe, mind you, but knee-jerk reactions claiming the two characters/performances are the same are sure to come).

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What About The Voice Of Geddy Lee? Fact Checkin Cuz Tells Us It Helped Spawn ‘The Tracey Fragements’

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:53:00 +0000

So last night we attended a screening of “The Tracey Fragments,” at a Diesel event where director Bruce McDonald and Broken Social Scene-r Brendan Canning were at for a Q&A after the film (Canning’s stripped down version of the Social Scene wrote the film’s score; the soundtrack of which came out yesterday via ITunes).

More on the film in a review tomorrow, but the Q&A yielded some interesting tidbits: Namely that Rush’s high alto wailing singer Geddy Lee might be the person to thank for the film.

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‘Tracey Fragments’ Soundtrack Coming Out Early Via ITunes On May 6

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:12:00 +0000

We gave you the scoop on “The Tracey Fragments” soundtrack that comes out May 13 via Lakeshore records and features a score by Broken Social Scene and songs by the Fembots, Rose Melberg and other Canadian indie-rockers (star Ellen Page and director Bruce McDonald are Canucks, hence the Great White score). We also gave you a first look at the new Social Scene track “Horses” (also bel0w) sung by newest BSS satellite-member Liz Powell from Montreal indie trio Land of Talk (it’s a Patti Smith cover).

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Preview: New Broken Social Scene Track From Ellen Page’s ‘Tracey Fragments’

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:47:00 +0000

As we mentioned yesterday, this new track, “Horses,” is a cover of the Patti Smith classic by Broken Social Scene (or a condensed version of the every-changing band) featuring Brendan Canning, Charles Spearin , Damon Richardson [formerly of Danko Jones] and Liz Powell from Montreal indie trio Land of Talk on vox.

The track comes from the upcoming soundtrack to Bruce McDonald’s indie film, “The Tracey Fragments,” (starring Ellen Page) due May 13 on Lakeshore records and features four new Social Scene songs (they composed the entire score to the film), plus one old track from the compilation Bee Hives.

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Exclusive: ‘Tracey Fragments’ Soundtrack Due May 13, Features New Broken Social Scene Songs, Fembots And The Deadly Snakes

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:30:00 +0000

Ellen Page’s latest film, the Canadian production, “The Tracey Fragments,” is finally coming out in the U.S. on May 9 via ThinkFilm and the movie has a soundtrack hitting shelves April 29 May 13 (Lakeshore goofed on their date).

As we previously reported months ago and reminded just again recently when the U.S. release was announced, Broken Social Scene composed the score for their friend, director Bruce McDonald (director of the classic pseudo rockumentary “Hard Core Logo“; the filmmaker also recently shot a documentary for Brendan Canning’s self-titled Broken Social Scene series solo album that comes out June 22 on Arts & Crafts) .

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Even More Ellen Page: Broken Social Scene Scored ‘Tracey Fragments’ Hitting U.S. In May

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:12:00 +0000

Remember how we said Ellen Page is going to be everywhere in the next couple months and years? Well, add one more film to the ongoing list, but this is and old one of sorts.

Canadian director Bruce MacDonald’s (director of the classic pseudo rockumentary “Hard Core Logo “) newest film “The Tracey Fragments” had its debut at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2007 and finally saw release in Canada last November/early Christmas.

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‘Juno’ Actors’ ITunes Playlists Not-So-Subtle Application For Pitchfork Gig

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:44:00 +0000

That Ellen Page is one hip, spunky kid with pretty decent taste. Not only did she recommend the Moldy Peaches to director Jason Reitman who then made their and Kimya Dawson’s music integral to the film “Juno,” she’s got pretty good musical ear that might make the dorks over at Pitchfork want to date her something fierce.

Thanks to our buddy Arye, we were hipped to her ITunes playlist that is pretty great and much better than the actual Juno soundtrack itself (then again, she didn’t have to clear licensing for anything and just picked what was available in ITunes).

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