I am jealous, despite the technological malfunction.

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Awesome, thanks for the audio!

Plus I love your icon.

"We will now have 10 minute silence in honor of twentieth anniversary of Tishniek Massacre."

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I hear noise; we start again.

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Haha he didn't really say that, did he?

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It's late/early, I know, and I had to proofread my IMDB review for errors too.

That's Larry Charles on stage, which is why he looks nothing like Larry David, whom Larry Charles has also directed.

There's a makeup screening Friday night at Midnight at the Elgin. There should be lots of last minute tickets available. By all means mob the joint and help fill the theatre. It's a big venue and some of us are already otherwise booked.

The audio clips posted here are patently illegal, if you want stolen copies, download them quick while you can. There was plenty of illegal ticket bootlegging going on for the screening as well.

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Why would it be illegal? Is recording a speech illegal? I didn't record any segments of the movie. Only the interview bits before and after. The media were there with cameras rolling at these parts too.

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I don't disagree with you that sometimes the law is imperfect. What I do, and recommend to others is that you campaign to change the law. Breaking laws you disagree with is like trying to fix a personal relationship by lying and cheating. Sometimes it works, but it's not the best approach all around in the long run.

The theatre had only the regular complement of enforcers with camera detection equipment. What with all the excitement and the people who couldn't even sit down in their $400 seats because of the people who snuck in, they just couldn't cope. They caught a lot of people trying to take unauthorized photos and videos of the crowd and stage, not all. There were plenty of authorized press photographers and video crews inside. With that many agents attending and trying to generate their own buzz, their had to be.

Everyone was allowed to shoot all they wanted at the authorized photo op, on the red carpet (the one with the girls and donkeys).

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sonjaaa didn't make any comment as to the validity of any specific law.
She asked what law she broke.
I'd quite like to know too - what law did she break by recording his speech?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_The_Law

Whoops, out of date.

The post contained public confessions of breaking more than one law (there goes her career in politics). The one you're asking about is in the sphere of Civil Law. The recording was a breach of contract according to the agreement of purchase and sale of the ticket.

No, I'm not a lawyer, but I can read. Not only is it clear and explicit in the license agreement, it's also written out, point form, right on the back of the ticket. You might need a magnifying glass for the fine print if you're old like me, but you don't have to be a legal scholar, just literate in English.

The penalty people get for a breach like the LJ post is usually something like a ten thousand dollar fine, and prison time only if you don't pay in a timely fashion. My bet is she gets away with it, this time.

The only penalty stated at the start of the screening for just making a recording (audio or other) was confiscation of the equipment and expulsion from the theatre. And last night, I didn't observe them actually removing people, just taking the equipment.

So if you don't think it's wrong, and you can afford to buy a new MP3 player, phone, etc. it wasn't a very risky proposition. Because it's all about not getting cought, not about contributing in a positive way to society and the world, right?

Everybody go out this weekend and make your own film (really), and you can decide what rights everyone else will have with it. In fact, anyone here can make a 4 minute porno for my friend Daryl's party:

http://www.hardliquorandporn.com/

And even if you're not creative, you can still enter the 69 Hour Challenge:

http://hardliquorandporn.com/news/21/

It's legal, and it's even fun. More work than being a passive consumer, but just as adrenaline pumping as breaking the rules. Heck, it is breaking the rules, just within the law.

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Under Canadian Law, breach of contract is not illegal.
A breach ofcontract would be unlawful which has a significantly different meaning.

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Why are you acting so Lawful Evil? Bummer man!! ;>

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It's in my nature. I'm usually lawfull, and it's sometimes annoying. But I'm actually Lawfull Good, that's why it's so bad.

I don't mean to harsh the buzz, man. Who's coming out to the Elgin tonight for round two?

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What I do, and recommend to others is that you campaign to change the law.

That's a nice sentiment--very principled...but not very purposeful. It's like trying to fix a personal relationship after somebody more important, rich, and attractive than you has taken your partner from you. The laws are were not always as restrictive as they are now--at least, not in the US; I can't speak for Canada). They're only as bad as they are now because people more rich and powerful than you and I convinced governments to change the laws to grant them more control over "intellectual property", both theirs and even others'.

I'm not endorsing theft; I'm just pointing out that over the last century, the legal definition of "theft" has gotten broader, entailing ever more acts that were once considered normal. The (free, legally downloadable) book Free Culture details some of this sad trend. On the other hand, I do endorse "civil disobedience" as a means of "market correction".

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Can you give me the url to your review? :)

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IMDB takes a while for live human editors to read and approve reviews before they make them live. Once that's done, you can't miss mine (if they don't choose to censor this one).

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http://imdb.com/title/tt0443453/usercomments-18

I intentionally left out the Michael Moore banter as extraneous to Borat, and even most of Larry's and Sacha's for brevity.

But that's the best I've seen from Mr. Moore since I saw him at the premiere of Roger and Me. Borat's director was wonderful and it's clear why everyone's hot for Sacha's Borat character.

I feel I got my moneys worth, even without the actual film.

mykwud's LJ photo blog is great too!

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Somebody else blogged the event:
http://mykwud.livejournal.com/53188.html

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Congratulations on being My Hero for sneaking in! I'm so glad you made it and had fun.

My Film Festival story:
Because I work in Forest Hill, I frequently run into people wearing odd headgear and acting like they're from another planet. Yesterday, though, I ran into one on the subway who just upped and started talking to me, asking where the film festival office was. Because she was so tanned it looked like she'd stolen her skin off someone's leather couch, and had A Thing clinging to her ear and blinking, I quickly discovered she was from LA.

Then she asked me where the show office was and I was like ... "I don't know."
But I gave her instructions on how to get to Yorkville Central anyway. She was extremely alien.

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Cool!

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I was up in the verandah section, and Michael Moore actually went into the projection room (which was all visible, there wasn't just a small hole for the projector lens to poke out from) to try to fix the thing, because he used to work as a projectionist. It was pretty surreal.

They're trying to organise another make-up screening, because a lot of people have Midnight Madness passes, so they already have another ticket for tonight's movie The Host.

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Wow, Michael Moore should follow Peter Jackson and go on a diet!

BORAT!
that outdoes my Dave Chappelle!

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Here's a YouTube link to a video of Borat on stage after the projector broke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psEa06h4CZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqqXUXzkgj8

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Were you able to get into tonight's rescheduled Borat too? =)

And hey, so are you living in TO fulltime now?

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Yup!! I saw the movie last night, because I managed to pick up a ticket stub I saw on the floor during the first attempt at the premiere. It was naaiiiss!

And I've been living in Toronto for about a year and a half, wawaweewa!! :)

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Do I need 3D glasses to watch these pictures ? Or is it Parkinson ?

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Kewl! but, the audio file doesn't work... help?

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Borat is son of the bitch. Fuck you.

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Borat is son of the bitch. Fuck you. You'll go to hell.

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