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BORAT screening Uuck Fp in Toronto!
Hey folks, Harry here... Behold - the nightmare that every festival planner on the planet dreads like you wouldn't believe. May the rest of Toronto's screenings go better...
Though the Toronto Film Festival is offerring some amazing films this year, and
it's been fairly easy to get tickets, its higher highs are matched by some low
lows. The Midnight Madness opener, Borat, even in its cancellation managed to
be the most interesting theatre going experience of my life, an extremely
hilarious one, but also soul crushingly disappointing. And it was the
anticipation, the high levels of excitement, that made this all the worse.
Waiting in the extremely long line was special- tons of people were showing up
just to try to get a glimpse of Borat, who, at the red carpet, gave everyone
high fives to the sound of loud Kazakstani music.
The film started a bit late,
but got a great Borat introduction.
And the film itself, at least the first 20
minutes, still make it the funniest film I have seen all year. But the
comedy/tragedy of the night was when the film suddenly stopped working, and it
become readily apparent that no one knew what the problem was.
Some guy near
the front, a trained magician, started doing tricks to entertain the crowd, but
it was just making things worse. Due to crowd demand, director Larry Charles
came out looking totally cool with his long beard, suit, shades, and sneakers,
to field questions with TIFF darling Michael Moore. They helped out
tremendously, but you could see the fear on their faces, not really knowing
what going on.
THe most surreal point of the evening was when they gestured to
Ari Emmanuel in the audience and we got to have a little entourage moment. And
after signing a note to excuse a kid's lateness from school friday, and taking
some pictures, they were starting to get dry. Finally, Borat came out to do
his Q&A, which still managed to be pretty great (he gave special thanks
to "Lawrence Charles and...fat man" the excitement was on programmer Colin
Geddes, who fielded questions to Borat onstage, and periodically got news from
assistants running frantically about. You could see in his eyes when he got
the final word, that it wouldn't happen and the screening would be relocated to
the Elgin Friday night.
It was a drag....
the Captain
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NOBODY cares :(
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I really wanna see Borat though... I remember when I was at a festival and I prayed this film I was watching would work the whole way through... It was truly scary but it worked out great... The Borat director thinks fast!
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you can't front on Michael Moore's recommendation. Moore's films are pretty damn funny themselves. The one with the bumbling politician who can't put two words together. Hell yeah! That made me laugh until I cried, or maybe I just cried.
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Everything I've seen or heard of has looked pretty crappy in theaters. It's pretty sad that I look to the small screen for good comedy. From Curb Your Enthusiasm, to Extras to Lucky Louie, to Entourage, to the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. TV comedies are kicking ass. No, I don't work for Comedy Central or HBO, but Borat is the biggest comedy in film in at least 5-10 years (or so I'm hoping).
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I might have been in the movie! Can anyone confirm if the rodeo scenes were filmed in Salem, Va.? Sasha was in character and crashed it, I believe he was supposed to sing the national anthem or something. Anyways, I don't know if the Salem footage is used in the film or if it's from another one he might've showed up at.
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I know it sucks for the people who didn't get to see the full movie, but the screening fucking up is maybe a nice way of getting a little extra promotion, no? At least they got Sacha there in person for a while. Also, the rodeo stuff IS going to be in the movie, or at least some of it.
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