Thoughts on the Mind of Tarantino

Some believe he has the purest contemporary cinematic mind, while others would simply say that he's out of his mind, but Tarantino's Mind may help viewers make up their own mind. My Dinner with Andre meets The Da Vinci Code in this short, credited to the film collective 300ml, as two cinephiles sit in a restaurant discussing films, one of them revealing that he has broken Tarantino's code. The "code," such as it is, will be nothing new to fans who have read any of the fifty-two biographies of the director already in print, and there are a few factual errors (such as neglecting From Dusk Till Dawn in a list of films Tarantino wrote but didn't direct), but what is interesting is how un-Tarantino-like the film is. It comes across more like late-career Eric Rohmer, as Selton Mello recounts to Its Jorge over drinks the details of his thesis on Tarantino. One of its most interesting facets is the notion that the jewels that Mr. Pink gets away with at the end of Reservoir Dogs later turn up in the silver briefcase in Pulp Fiction. Another, odder point is the twinship between Tarantino and Swiss tennis champ Roger Federer. Anyone frustrated by the poor visual quality and hard-to-read subtitles of the Portuguese dialogue have a chance to see Tarantino's Mind on the big screen at 8:15 PM on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art's Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1, where it'll be screened as part of the MOMA program Premiere Brazil!. Tarantino's Mind will play with Beto Brant and Renato Ciasca's Cão Sem Dono [Stray Dog], and later repeats at 6:30 PM on Monday, July 16. — D. K. Holm

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