Screening Dates
  • November 10, 2017 8:30
  • November 11, 2017 6:30
New Restoration

“Unapologetically odd … An increasingly weird mix of Heart of Darkness and The Wizard of Oz.”

Steward Mason, AllMusic

When Bruce McDonald’s debut feature, the rock-and-roll road movie Roadkill, won the $25,000 prize for best Canadian film at TIFF in 1989, the maverick Toronto director famously quipped that he was going to buy ​“a big chunk of hash.” Now a Canadian cult classic—and newly restored—Roadkill stars Valerie Buhagiar as naïve Ramona, intern at a concert agency, who’s sent on a quest to find the Children of Paradise, a band missing somewhere in Northern Ontario. Canuck mainstay Don McKellar plays a would-be serial killer and wrote the film’s script. Musicians Nash the Slash, Leslie Spit Treeo, and Joey Ramone make appearances. The soundtrack features a wealth of Canadian indie rock. Hipster McDonald would rock-and-roll and road-movie it all over again in Highway 61, his award-winning follow-up, also featuring Buhagiar and McKellar.

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