For all our UK enthusiasts...
The Tracey Fragments will be screening on Friday 22nd at the Leeds Festival at 9.45pm followed by the Tracey Remixed party with Youth Movies!!
Following the huge success of this event at the East End London Film Festival I reccomend you check it out - watch the movie and then watch the movie remixed live to awesome music!
http://www.leedsfestival.com/news/index.aspx
Hope you're all having a great summer!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Tracey Fragments DVD out today in Canada and the US
After a great DVD launch screening in Toronto on Sunday night with giveaways, a Q&A with Bruce McDonald, screenings of the Winning and Shortlisted entries of the Tracey:Re-Fragmented contest and a sneak peek at the new film by Bruce McDonald "Pontypool" the DVD is now available for everyone else!
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Toronto - The Tracey Fragments DVD Launch and Giveaway!
Hi All,
For those of you in Toronto who have missed The Tracey Fragments in it's big screen awesomeness, or just want a chance to see it again and catch up with the director Bruce McDonald;
Come out this SUNDAY JULY 6TH to THE ROYAL - 9.15pm
608 College Street
DVD Launch - Giveaways of DVDs (with bonus features including interviews on the set with Ellen Page and Bruce McDonald), the original soundtrack album - featuring new music by Broken Social Scene, comic books and even a few of the exclusive and impossible to buy anywhere - Posters!
ALSO - World Premiere screening of the finalists and winning entries of the Tracey: Re-Fragmented contest, cut from footage of the film.
and FINALLY, a special sneak peek at something new from director Bruce McDonald, come on down and ask him about it.
The Tracey Fragments is available on DVD in the US and Canada JULY 8th! Pre-order HERE:
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Houston Chronicle Review
Come out and see The Tracey Fragments at the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/5864597.html
STARTS TOMORROW 2 July Houston, TX
Musuem of Fine Arts
Friday, June 27, 2008
Boston Herald Review...see it this week!
'Fragments' Takes Page out of 'Juno' By James Verniere
http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/view/2008_06_27_‘Fragments__takes_Page_out_of_‘Juno_/srvc=home&position=also
If you have an aversion to split screens, the experimental technique that enjoyed a brief vogue in the 1960s and is revived here with a passion, steer clear of this vertigo-inducing entry. Otherwise, paging Page fans everywhere.
When the story begins, Tracey Berkowitz (Page) is naked, wrapped in a curtain on a bus with bright-blue seats, addressing the camera - and she tells a sorry tale indeed.
An outcast at school because of her prepubescent lack of womanly attributes, 15-year-old Tracey is also unhappy at home, where her doltish, working-class father (Ari Cohen) grounds her unfairly and chain-smoking drudge mother (Erin McMurtry) seems to hate her. Adding to Tracey’s and our sense of dislocation, her shrink is played by a man (Julian Richings) in drag.
When Tracey’s younger brother Sonny (Zie Souwand) disappears without a trace while with his sister, all hell breaks loose in the Berkowitz home, and Tracey, whose job it was to care for and keep an eye on Sonny, runs away.
Did I mention that Tracey believes she “hypnotized” Sonny and convinced him to think he was a dog?
“The Tracey Fragments” is a modern-day “Candide”-like, picaresque tale in which Tracey encounters, among other things, a convenience store clerk with horns and a drug dealer in trouble with his supplier (the film’s one unfortunate stereotype).
Visually, the movie is fascinating and ambitious. The screen responds to Tracey’s words, creating “multiframe” images with screens of various sizes within the screen, swirling and fluttering like a stream of psychic, autumnal leaves.
McDonald, working with Canadian writer Maureen Medved adapting her own novel, uses the art of film to bring the thoughts in Tracey’s head to vivid Mondrian-like life.
A sequence featuring Patti Smith’s incantatory anthem “Land: Horses” is utterly spellbinding (speaking of which, Smith’s life is a movie waiting to be made). In other scenes, Tracey reads a graphic novel called “Ed the Happy Clown,” which seems to be a variation of her adventures.
Narratively, “The Tracey Fragments” is also like origami, folded and refolded upon itself. If it were “straightened out,” this 77-minute entry would be more like three hours.
“The Tracey Fragments” should be seen by anyone interested in the art of film and the art of bravura film acting. It is also a further reminder that Page is the real thing.
But we knew that already.
“Juno Has a Nervous Breakdown” might be the best way to describe Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald’s “The Tracey Fragments,” a dysfunctional family drama featuring a tour de force turn by Juno herself, Ellen Page.
If you have an aversion to split screens, the experimental technique that enjoyed a brief vogue in the 1960s and is revived here with a passion, steer clear of this vertigo-inducing entry. Otherwise, paging Page fans everywhere.
When the story begins, Tracey Berkowitz (Page) is naked, wrapped in a curtain on a bus with bright-blue seats, addressing the camera - and she tells a sorry tale indeed.
An outcast at school because of her prepubescent lack of womanly attributes, 15-year-old Tracey is also unhappy at home, where her doltish, working-class father (Ari Cohen) grounds her unfairly and chain-smoking drudge mother (Erin McMurtry) seems to hate her. Adding to Tracey’s and our sense of dislocation, her shrink is played by a man (Julian Richings) in drag.
When Tracey’s younger brother Sonny (Zie Souwand) disappears without a trace while with his sister, all hell breaks loose in the Berkowitz home, and Tracey, whose job it was to care for and keep an eye on Sonny, runs away.
Did I mention that Tracey believes she “hypnotized” Sonny and convinced him to think he was a dog?
“The Tracey Fragments” is a modern-day “Candide”-like, picaresque tale in which Tracey encounters, among other things, a convenience store clerk with horns and a drug dealer in trouble with his supplier (the film’s one unfortunate stereotype).
Visually, the movie is fascinating and ambitious. The screen responds to Tracey’s words, creating “multiframe” images with screens of various sizes within the screen, swirling and fluttering like a stream of psychic, autumnal leaves.
McDonald, working with Canadian writer Maureen Medved adapting her own novel, uses the art of film to bring the thoughts in Tracey’s head to vivid Mondrian-like life.
A sequence featuring Patti Smith’s incantatory anthem “Land: Horses” is utterly spellbinding (speaking of which, Smith’s life is a movie waiting to be made). In other scenes, Tracey reads a graphic novel called “Ed the Happy Clown,” which seems to be a variation of her adventures.
Narratively, “The Tracey Fragments” is also like origami, folded and refolded upon itself. If it were “straightened out,” this 77-minute entry would be more like three hours.
“The Tracey Fragments” should be seen by anyone interested in the art of film and the art of bravura film acting. It is also a further reminder that Page is the real thing.
But we knew that already.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Where's Tracey?
and where will she be next?
Well right now of course she's in Portland and Seattle, but she's coming to a town near you!
Well right now of course she's in Portland and Seattle, but she's coming to a town near you!
18 June
27 June Boston, MA
Brattle Theater http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/index.html
2 July
Musuem of Fine Arts http://www.mfah.org/films
5 July
Friday, June 13, 2008
Seattle and Portland - Tracey Opens TODAY!
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS is taking this show on the road, starting tomorrow! For all of you near
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In Seattle:
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
1515 12th Avenue (and Pike), Capitol Hill
Shows at 7:15 and 9:15 (plus 5:15 on Saturday and Sunday)
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
Advance Tickets- http://www.brownpaperticke
(BTW- while you're there, grab advance tickets to see the absolutely stunning FROWNLAND, which opens June 27th- we're not affiliated with this film, but if you like Tracey, this will be right up your alley).
In Portland:
HOLLYWOOD THEATER
4122 NE Sandy Blvd (at NE 41st Place)
Shows at 5:15 Friday, 12:30, 5:30, 7:30 Sat & Sun, 7:30 Mon and Wed, 6:45 Tues and Thurs
http://www.hollywoodtheatr
Advance Tickets- https://robot.boxofficetic
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Both of these engagements are for ONE WEEK ONLY, so don't waste time on the microphone!
And for the rest of you, you are not forgotten- New
See you at the movies!
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