Bruce McDonald

Bruce McDonald

Born: May 28, 1959
in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Bruce McDonald (born May 28, 1959) is a Canadian film and television director, writer and producer. He is known for his award-winning cult films Roadkill (1989) and Hard Core Logo (1996).

He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.

Movies for Bruce McDonald...

The Hexecutioners
Title: The Hexecutioners
Character: Old Bugger (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Two disparate young women working for a company that conducts euthanasia are dispatched to a remote estate to perform a custom assisted-suicide ritual, but unwittingly summon the wraiths of a Death Cult that once inhabited the property.
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Hard Core Logo II
Title: Hard Core Logo II
Character: Himself
Released: December 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Bruce McDonald’s long-awaited follow-up to his cult classic mock-doc stars McDonald himself as "Bruce," the director of Hard Core Logo, who has relocated to L.A. and scored a profitable gig as a TV director. When the show he’s been working on is suddenly put on hiatus, Bruce is at loose ends. When he hears that punk rocker Care Failure (played by real-life musician Care Failure) has claimed that she channelled the spirit of Hard Core Logo’s late singer Joe Dick while writing songs for her new album, Bruce hies to Saskatchewan, where Failure and her band Die Mannequin are recording the album under the tutelage of Dick’s idol and former mentor Bucky Haight (Julian Richings, who played the same role in the original film).
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Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
Title: Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and evolved through the history of the cinema. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing traces this story from the world of pioneering silent auteurs such as Georges Méliès and D.W. Griffith through the bold stylings of the masters of the French New Wave to the technical and creative innovations of films like The Matrix, Memento, and The Sixth Sense. Edge Codes.com includes interviews with noted directors George Lucas and Norman Jewison, as well as top editors Thelma Schoonmaker, Zach Staenberg, Dody Dorn, Andrew Mondshein, and many more.
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Last Night
Title: Last Night
Character: Wild Guy #3
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
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Roadkill
Title: Roadkill
Character: Bruce Shack, the Director
Released: September 16, 1989
Type: Movie
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.