This week I’m attending a lot of press screenings for the New York Film Festival, which I’ll be covering mostly for The Auteurs’, starting soon. This morning I’ll be seeing Antichrist, which I hear tell is like having Lars von Trier himself piss acid into your eyes. Funsy! For notes, I’m using this kind of fruity-looking hardbacked Clairefontaine book that I picked up out of necessity in Toronto in 2000 and put away once my proper reporter’s notebooks arrived. I’m using it now because, well, why let it go to waste. Anyhow, I thought it might (I mean might—don’t hold it against me if it’s not) be fun to reproduce what scant notes I put in it at the time, to give you all a glimpse of what my working methods at Première were, and how my oft-goofy mind works. (Funny that I took more notes for TIgerland than Code Inconnu.) So. Notes from the 2000 Toronto Film Festival reproduced as written, below the fold.
Your cage is painted
picket fence white
and from your knees it
looks like
Heaven’s gate
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Robert De Niro as Marc Antony
And Gus Van Sant is
directing
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Joe Coleman=Harvey
I’m not the big bad wolf
Just look at me as
A teddy
bear
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Tigerland
Why would I want to do that
to another human being
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Tries to undercut its clichés
by having the lead character
actually point them out
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Just because Joel Schumacher
has made a movie at which you
shrug in bemused resignation
rather than cringe in mortification
does not mean he’s achieved an artistic
“redemption.”
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“Tribes?” “Streamers?”
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“It’s just me”
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Boz initiates an
experiment in
compassionate
soldiering!
Hey! This is
ludicrous!
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“I’m a good butcher, Bozz…”
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The quasi neo realist “Stripes!”
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“Tigerland, gentlemen,
is where you
stop bullshitting yourselves.”
What is this,
an EST
seminar?
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“It’s like a war theme park” Hmm…
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Ah, the domino falls
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“Last Time I Saw Archie”
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Code Inconnu
It’s the “Trois Colours” trilogy
only it’s all in one
film!
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Forest Whitaker
The Early Years
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It’s “Magnolia”
without the
frogs!
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6ixtynin9
Big mistake,
killing off
the Jean
Hagen
character
Well, I guess I don’t need to see 6ixtynin9 now!
LMAO
Bill, that is the single funniest comment I have ever read.
Yeesh, thanks for spoiling the end of Code Unknown too. Now everyone knows there’s no rain of frogs.
Well, Tigerland IS better than The Boys in Company C.
Besides, Schummacher’s creation of D.C. Cab AND The Lost Boys makes him tops in my book.
“Don’t let your d— run your life!” – Dialogue from D.C CAB
I wonder what having Joel Schumacher piss acid in your eyes would be like.
Oh, wait:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJWpmPGCR1c
These are great. I would love to see more new old notes.
Why didn’t you call it “Political Song For Michael Jackson to Sing”? 🙂