Photograph: Getty Images Hello and welcome – film fans, awards junkies, wild-eyed insomniacs and angry loners alike – to the 85th Oscars, coming live as a petri dish from the Dolby theatre in Hollywood.
The small square, with a stage and performance space, welcomes film series, concerts and literary readings, rain or shine.
"I absolutely would welcome more films that look at the crisis as I think films bring issues into people's lives.
Still, Mr. Albee says, he would welcome such film translations of all his 27 plays if done correctly.
Mr. Koch, meanwhile, may welcome the film's stop in the city, but he did not care much for its predecessor, "The Dark Knight".
Those convinced that faith can literally move mountains may welcome a film whose characters discuss spiritual issues, although there are no grand tectonic shifts in the landscape.
If we have to face in adjacent theaters The Lego Movie and Frozen, made for the smallest of folk, why can't we welcome a film made to honor the largest of folk, our WWII heroes?
The New York Times has welcomed the film.
Yet she also welcomed the film as a startling formal experiment.
The world has welcomed indie film, indie rock and indie publishing.
