S**t from an old notebook

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 Premiere 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 

Comments

[bill]

Well, I guess I don't need to see 6ixtynin9 now!

[Tony Dayoub]

LMAO

Bill, that is the single funniest comment I have ever read.

[Ed Howard]

Yeesh, thanks for spoiling the end of Code Unknown too. Now everyone knows there's no rain of frogs.

[Aaron Aradillas]

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

[JF]

I wonder what having Joel Schumacher piss acid in your eyes would be like.

Oh, wait:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJWpmPGCR1c

[Nick]

These are great. I would love to see more new old notes.

[dogandpony]

Why didn't you call it "Political Song For Michael Jackson to Sing"? :)