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BERLIN & BEYOND 2009—Michael Hawley Previews the Line-up
The Evening Class — The 14th edition of Berlin & Beyond (B&B;), the Bay Area's annual week-long festival of new films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, will take place at the Castro Theater from January 15 to 21, 2009. I walked into the festival's press conference hoping to find three particular films in the line-up—Christian Petzold's Jerichow, Götz Spielmann's Revanche and Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex. I'm happy to say that two of my three wishes came true. The one ...

REVANCHE
The Evening Class — ... was—for me—the unexpected discovery and delight of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Its tagline inquiry—"Whose fault is it if life doesn't go your way?"—was one I found difficult to readily answer. The film's unexpected narrative sponsored complicated emotions that I had to sit with for a while and which I couldn't fully articulate until I took another look at the film in preparation for its upcoming appearances at both the 2009 Berlin and Beyond Film Festival and the ...

REVIEW of REVANCHE
Twitch: Film & DVD Reviews (Work-Safe) — ... was—for me—the unexpected discovery and delight of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Its tagline inquiry—"Whose fault is it if life doesn’t go your way?"—was one I found difficult to readily answer. The film’s unexpected narrative sponsored complicated emotions that I had to sit with for a while and which I couldn’t fully articulate until I took another look at the film in preparation for its upcoming appearances at both the 2009 Berlin and Beyond Film Festival and the ...

BERLIN & BEYOND 2009—Michael Hawley Reviews His Screeners
The Evening Class — ... As per usual, I've saved the films I'm most anticipating for a big-screen experience at the festival proper. These include Revanche, ...