Mr. Batra resigned from the screening panel.
At that moment, Ms. Sevigny and friends emerged from the screening room.
Staggering away from the screening, I knew exactly how she felt.
Away from the screening rooms, the festival opens in a welter of industry deals and celebrity pop-ins.
George A. Farkas, a lawyer who resigned from the screening panel earlier this year to protest its operations, said the list "certainly contains some standouts".
Proceeds from the screening will be split between the nonprofit Friends of Hearst Castle and the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.
This week, my wife's company laptop was stolen from the screening bin because it was allowed through the screening device before she was.
The other came from a man who emerged from the screening, arms flapping wildly, to inform Mr. Leggatt that the subtitles were in German.
The group's house of delegates, which is separate from the screening committee, has voted to endorse abortion rights and affirmative action.
If Mr. Lagerfeld himself was conspicuously absent from the screening party thrown by Chanel last week, maybe he has had enough of these renditions of the Chanel story?
Any acquaintances to whom I recommended "Sucker Punch," say, would emerge from the screening, call their lawyer, and sue me for grievous mental harm.
