The United 93 Premiere

As I told you yesterday, the 9/11 movie United 93, opened the Tribeca film fest last night... Steven Zeitchik of Variety describes the scene:

A wrenching reminder of 9/11 was surrounded with red-carpet hoopla at the world [premiere] of "United 93," which kicked off the fifth edition of the Tribeca film fest Tuesday at [New York's] Ziegfeld theater.

After the film's devastating final scene, the screen abruptly went dark and a cacophony of loud, uncontrollable sobs could be heard coming from the back of the theater, where many of the nearly 100 family members of 9/11 victims were seated.

Some were seeing the film for the first time. As more than 1,100 viewers filed out, a funereal silence filled the theater.

And as the sobbing continued after the screening, there were sounds of other people comforting the family members and taking them outside.

As people were filing out, there was a strange encounter as some family members came face to face with an actor who played a hijacker. One quietly told the thesp, "You were very brave."

A low-key mood continued at the post-screening reception at the Four Seasons [Hotel] where the families mingled with other attendees like N.Y. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and NBC News' Brian Williams.

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