Author: Eric, your haikuist

This week I feel likedown-home indie Canadian cult road movies directed by Bruce Macdonald.First, ROADKILL, a low-budget, black-and-white film about a woman(Valerie Buhagiar) learning to drive, a serial killer (Don McKellar),a confused film crew, Joey Ramone, and tons of circa-1989 grungyCanadian indie music. It’s cool and gritty and funy, and it remindsme a bit of Clerks (which came 5 years later).Roadkill is only 70 minutes long, so I wanna couple that with BruceMacdonald’s much slicker 90-minute HARD CORE LOGO, a Spinal-Tap-likemockumentary about a punk band on a tour of western Canada.

I may set aside some time to gush about the movie and convince you that the black-and-white all-little-person German film we are watching is indeed a masterpiece, despite your misgivings…. But I really, really like this movie, and it makes me sad that there are so many people out there who haven’t seen it, and if you have seen it, you know it bears watching multiple times, and this is the director’s cut, anyway, which you might not have seen.