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The Berlin Film Festival at 75: Building for the Future on Its Rich Past
After 75 years, the Berlin Film Festival retains its reputation and the vitality of its programming and operations.
Berlin was very much at the center of the 1950s European flowering of auteur cinema that extended into the 196, with Golden Bears going to such films as Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “The Wages of Fear,” David Lean’s “Hobson’s Choice,” Ingmar Bergman’s “Wild Strawberries” and Claude Chabrol’s “Les Cousins.” Travails from sponsor fatigue to cutbacks in entertainment marketing, to the decline in arthouse attendance numbers, all these woes and others are giving festival organizers and art film fans lots of sleepless nights. Incoming Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle is an internationally respected figure, and the city fathers of Berlin still know the importance of the festival as a major cultural showcase that powers tourism and business investment dollars.
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