After a screening of “The White Ribbon” at the New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke sat down with Richard Pena and a translator for a Q&A… wait for the best part later on when an audience members asks him if he has “sadness inside him” (excuse the bad quality and the shakiness, it was a two-coffees-too-many-sorta-day):
I meant to ramble on a bit about this earlier, because it seems being a gossip columnist is working for me, but a fellow blogger beat me to it over at New York Magazine. Last night while at the reception for “An Education”‘s New York premiere, I took a break from drinking more free wine than a Monday night should ever consist of to notice the ridiculously adorable Carey Mulligan having a fairly intense argument just outside the party.
Outside the party, seemingly hidden from the view of paps (but not Intel!), LaBeouf cornered Mulligan and did all sorts of arm-raising and angry-facing before storming off into the night. Watching the spat, we wondered if this will be one of those moments Mulligan looks back on when she wonders where if their relationship went awry. The night he picked that fight at my big premiere, she’ll think. Anyway, Mulligan — who remained composed throughout the talk — patted her dress down, held her head high, and walked back inside the premiere party. We can see what Anna Wintour likes about this girl.
So last night I attended the New York Film Festival premiere of Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist” and I figure I’d relay an eerie incident that happened in the midst of the film’s intense third act. Sometime in between on-screen mutilations, I hear this loud moan coming from behind me, followed by a loud thud. Immediately the entire audience at Alice Tully Hall was in a frenzy, most of us unsure as to what happened (I had thought someone fell off the balcony considering how loud the thud was), though it later became clear a man had a seizure. People starting screaming “Call an Ambulance!”; “Call 9/11” (including the familiar voice of actress Lili Taylor, who was apparently beside the man) as Charlotte Gainsbourg continued on her psychotic onscreen mission. Finally the film was shut off and the house lights came on, and 4 or 5 policemen entered the theater, helping the man (who was apparently okay) out. And then, after a few moments of whispering between audience members trying to figure out what had happened, “Antichrist” came back on.
I don’t know if “Antichrist” caused the seizure, but it considering the point in the film in which it occurred, it seemed like that was the case. After the screening, people recalled a similar incident back in 1994, when “Pulp Fiction” screened at NYFF. After the scene with Uma Thurman and the syringe, someone had a heart attack.
Either way, the incident certainly heightened the rest of the film’s intensity… And though I’m sure IFC Films would never stoop to exploiting someone’s health officially, the taglines sort of write themselves.
[UPDATE: I’m now hearing conflicting gossip that it was a panic attack, so that could very well be the case.]
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