Looking for something a little less death-and-resurrection to do this weekend? How about just the death part? This Sunday the final installment of Edgar Wright's The Wright Stuff rolls out at Toronto's Bloor Cinema with a pair of Canadian cult classics, David Cronenberg's The Brood and Don McKellar's Last Night. The Brood will be screening from a spiffy new uncut print and McKellar - incidentally also the writer of Tony award winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone and a co-writer on Blindness - will be in attendance for Last Night while Wright says other guests are a possibility as well. Get on out!
Edgar Says: Two of my very favorite Canadians films. David Cronenberg is the King Of Canada as far as I’m concerned. I was watching his films and seeing Toronto on screen, before I even knew where it was. His body of work and his journey from making genre films to being one of our most lauded international auteurs continues to amaze. “The Brood” is a cult classic and deserves to be seen more often. Cronenberg also appears in “Last Night”, an outstanding film about the apocalypse by the great Don McKellar. This bleak gem is one of the films that influenced “Shaun of the Dead”, so I’m very happy to present it at the Bloor. See you there.
I love that "Last Night" was an influence on "Shaun of the Dead" - the former is one of my favorite, horribly underwatched films.
What a great film-combo and event. the Brood is one of my all time faves.
I also dig LAST NIGHT. A lot.