The rematch from the 2012 Olympics, where Rudisha won gold in a world record time, lived up to its premiere billing.
However, the selection of North American premieres billed to take place at Toronto suggests films such as Abel Ferrara's Pasolini, starring Willem Dafoe, Laurent Cantet's Return to Ithaca, plus two Al Pacino films – David Gordon Green's Mangelhorn and Philip Roth adaptation The Humbling – will open in Venice before transferring to Toronto.
A Gothic tale originally composed as a radio opera, "The Black Widow," as its American premiere is billed, was the first opera by the Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister, a student of Carl Orff and proponent of a tonality that ensured that the bulk of his work would fall into oblivion in the later years of the 20th century.
Paramount had every reason to expect a big opening for Zoolander 2, with media happily exploiting images of Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and other cast members performing photo stunts at a series of premieres (technically billed as "fan screenings") all around the world.
Within days, congressional sources tell the Guardian, the premiere NSA reform bill of the last Congress, known as the USA Freedom Act, is set for reintroduction – and this time, some former supporters fear the latest version of the bill will squander an opportunity for even broader surveillance reform.
Two New York premieres on the bill, which runs through Sunday night, have a certain curiosity value.
A fractured shoulder last autumn left Khan unable to complete his previous work, Gnosis, in time for its billed premiere.
The three premieres on this bill are "Lapidation" by Anthony Coleman, the keyboardist who has played jazz, improvisation and klezmer-rooted music with John Zorn and many other musicians; "In Memory" by Lois V Vierk, who can turn minimal gestures into an exhilarating rush of music; and "Voodoo for Violin and Chamber Ensemble" by the violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain.
This season, four world premieres comprised the bill's beginning.
The two-hour premiere of "Moonlighting," billed as a "romantic comedy," aired Sunday at 9 p.m. On Tuesdays, far from counterprogramming, "Moonlighting" strongly resembles the competition on NBC: "Remington Steele". "Moonlighting," like "Remington Steele," deals with an attractive young woman who owns a detective agency and is forced to work side by side with the man who ostensibly runs the show.
At its premiere, Iolanta shared the bill with The Nutcracker.
