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  • 2009
    • February
      • From the Sublime to the Ridiculous (and back again)
        15/02/09
        The retrospective strand this year is Larger than Life a presentation of the 70mm large screen format. A great selection of films included West Side Story, Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia. With trying to see so many new films it feels too much of a treat to settle back and see a classic. Although I a

      • Berlinale Blues
        11/02/09

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        From promising prospects, the view from mid way through the 59th Berlinale is one of acute underwhelm, certainly in the main competition. I have heard nothing but bad things about Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s new film Mammoth. I was and am a big fan of his earlier films –

      • When You're Strange
        09/02/09
        Is when you you have lost your all important accreditation badges and any sense of significance is quite quickly wiped away - forget sartre, forget camus - when it comes to the meaning of being: I have festival accreditation therefore I am! And so it was that once welcoming cinemas, ticket offices,

      • Eins Zwei Drei
        08/02/09

        Ricky Premiere

        Difficult to know where the beginning was even after only two days. Already saturated in cinema notching up 4 or 5 films a day whilst trying to work your way through the 200 odd screenings per day across who knows how many cinemas and screens nestling within and witho