Shown at the opening-night gala, the movie revolves around a closeted Yale grad who decides to take a job picking apples in Oregon as a kind of Thoreau-esque solution to his identity crisis.
Jim Jarmusch's latest film, The Dead Don't Die, will be shown at the festival opening, and Alejandro González Iñárritu, who won two Academy Awards for Best Director, will serve as jury president.
When the picture was shown as the opening night attraction at the New York Film Festival the screening had to be stopped.
A video of a British soldier screaming obscenities and abuse at hooded Iraqi detainees was shown today at the opening session of a public inquiry into how the hotel receptionist, Baha Mousa, was killed while in British custody.
He had last shown it at the opening of parliament, two days before last week's return to Robben Island, in the middle of his formal speech about his government's reforms.
The reedy Coppola is quietly and carefully spoken and something of a fashion star herself, wearing Proenza Schouler, Rodarte and Saint Laurent, showing up at the opening of a Chanel exhibit in Las Vegas and making a short film for Elle magazine.
Mr. Skilling apparently doesn't get out much, though he and his wife did show up at the opening of a stylish hotel, the Derek, last November.
And while his books have sold more than 10 million copies, he says it was a bit overwhelming to show up at the opening and see a 22-foot-tall inflatable Arthur seated on the museum roof.
