Beginning with its opening-night screening on Friday of Ava DuVernay's race-themed prison documentary "13th" and winding down two weeks later with Ang Lee's class-minded military drama "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," the festival will showcase some of cinema's current heroes exploring titanic of-the-moment issues.
Beginning with its dissonant opening and heavy use of distortion, Hendrix's techniques "all contributed to the dirty, raw, metallic, [and] angular sounds" heard in the song, according to Shapiro.
Mr. Dao's choreography is predictable, beginning with its faintly militaristic opening.
He sang with a rich baritone and dramatic fervor throughout, beginning with his opening aria, in which he plots his vampiric conquests.
The piece begins with its well-known opening theme consisting of three-note phrases, grouped together as one eighth note and two sixteenth notes.
On Wednesday, the oldest of these events -- the MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA ("the Mostra" to its habitués; "Venice" to the rest of us) -- begins its 62nd edition with its opening night selection, Tsui Hark's "SEVEN SWORDS".
It is to begin previews on Feb. 25 with its opening night scheduled for March 17, and is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Roger Berlind, Stephanie P. McClelland, Scott M. Delman, Robert G. Bartner, Olympus Theatricals and Doug Smith.
Beginning with the opening attraction of its 2000-01 season, the Oct. 10 world premiere of "The Big Potato," a play by Arthur Laurents, the repertory theater will become a tenant of the new Duke Theater, a 199-seat house on the second floor of the Duke Building at 229 West 42nd Street, a project of the New 42nd Street Development Corporation.
The fateful blink occurs near the beginning with the opening of a car door.
