Schooled in the viewing of conceptual art, some attendees were puzzled, Ms. Greenwood said.
It's an administrative choreography of a most delicate theatrical artifice, and the weight of that artifice is a burden and a lure in the viewing of "Birdman".
Their statement in full: As a group of 9/11 families sharing a rare moment of justice and elation in the viewing of a film chronicling the search for and ultimate death of Osama Bin Laden, we find it deeply disturbing that some of our elected officials want to discourage other 9/11 families and the public from seeing this outstanding film.
Writing ecstatically about an ecstatic movie, it's easy to get carried away — to see most clearly what sparks the most intense emotion — and one of those things in the viewing of Leos Carax's "Holy Motors" is the impulsive vigor of the filming: the tone of spontaneous invention, creative urgency, documentary curiosity.
The people around me reacted with the eewrrgh sound that has become de rigueur in the viewing of violence, followed by the traditional hasty giggle to pop the tension; even those moviegoers who revel in such a sight, however, might usefully pause to inspect the kick of pleasure that it provokes.
I went to the movies guided solely by pleasure, even curiosity, and nothing in the viewing of "A New Hope" induced me to catch up with the then-recent releases of "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," nor to follow along with the three prequels.
