Don McKellar

Hard Core Logo 2: Trigger

October 7, 2010October 2, 2010

Vic (Tracy Wright) and Kat (Molly Parker) grew up together. They started a band together. They lived their lives together. They abused themselves with drugs and narcotics together. They were Trigger together. Trigger is playing/was playing a short engagement at Toronto’s brand-spankin’-new TIFF Bell Lightbox, and director Bruce McDonald was on-hand to introduce the film to the audience. McDonald explained that the film started as a continuation of the story of Joe Dick and Billy Talent who were the two front-men of the fictional band Hard Core Logo. Unfortunately Hugh Dylan’s and Callum Keith Rennie’s schedules made it impossible. Rather than scrapping the screenplay, McDonald and writer Daniel Macivor rewrote… Read More »Hard Core Logo 2: Trigger

The Movie Is Broken

July 23, 2010July 15, 2010

Bruce McDonald reinvented the concert film. Instead of shooting performers on a stage, McDonald attempted to tell a story in the context of a concert. This Movie Is Broken follows a young Toronto man and the love of his life, who’s recently returned to Ontario. Their paths lead them to Harbourfront Centre where Broken Social Scene are playing a free show. Let’s start off with the obvious (if you know me), I don’t like Broken Social Scene. I don’t hate Broken Social Scene, but I’ve never liked Broken Social Scene. The only member of the band I have any fondness for is Amy Millan, but I don’t like Stars, I… Read More »The Movie Is Broken

Blindness

June 18, 2010June 13, 2010

As a fan of Canadian cinema, I’m by default a fan of Don McKellar’s work. Aren’t we all, after all? McKellar wrote Blindness, a film which I really knew nothing about it before I watched it, other than the author’s previous work. In the film, a Japanese man (Yûsuke Iseya) living in an unknown city finds himself in suddenly blind while sitting in traffic. A man (McKellar) offers to drive him home, after getting him to his destination, he steals the car. Blindness, while usually described as darkness is instead described as brightness. It slowly spreads from Iseya’s character to the Doctor to McKellar’s character to a prostitute who was… Read More »Blindness