Out & About
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Opening night of the New York Film Festival Friday showed which constituent of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts draws the most diverse, funkiest, and fun cross section of New Yorkers: the Film Society, which is presenting the 45th edition of the festival this year.
“We have 4,000 assembled in three sold-out venues tonight,” the Film Society’s chairwoman, Ann Tenenbaum, said before the premiere of Wes Anderson’s “The Darjeeling Limited.”
The audience at Avery Fisher Hall included Ruth Westheimer, David Byrne, Tilda Swinton, and Kent and Elizabeth Swig.
Mr. Anderson, the director and co writer of “The Darjeeling Limited,” said he is a regular at the film festival and spoke about falling in love with India, where the film is set. “It was everything I expected and much more,” he said.
After the screening, more than a thousand people gathered in the outdoor and indoor rooms at Tavern on the Green, including film producer Harvey Weinstein; one-half of the band Kill Henry Sugar, Dean Sharenow, and Mr. Anderson’s mom, Texas Ann Burroughs, who sat for dinner in between her son Eric, who frequently collaborates with his brother on production design, and the actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Members of the cast wore silver pins in the shape of elephants; the pin is the creation of cast member Waris Ahluwalia and based on a design by Eric Anderson that is featured in the film as part of the pattern on the main characters’ Louis Vuitton luggage.
The pins are being sold to benefit a charity called Elephant Family, Mr. Ahluwalia said.
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