Dateline - December 2013 The usual pre-amble When the subject of doing these retrospectives came up, I immediately began mentally sketching out each film and picturing what I would want to say about each one, or what approach I would take. It quickly became apparent that even though I had my favourites among my favourites; I was going to find the actual writing of them a challenging, and even weirdly illuminating experience. I would hesitate to use the old ‘voyage of discover