October is the season for film industry types to escape their offices in thick-rimmed frames, to have conversations that sound like explanations of BA dissertations and to keep up to date on the year's cinematic proceedings, side-by-side with the capital's regular movie fans.
Throughout the proceedings, both sides made important points.
The judge said last week that she would not allow "irrelevant and inappropriate matters, themes, statements, emotions or other distractions" to be injected into the proceedings by either side.
The early kick-off brought with it a sleepy start to proceedings, with both sides fragmented in their build-up and struggling to generate any cohesive pattern of play.
Although the judge said he would take the motion to dismiss the charges under advisement, the tone of the proceedings left both sides expecting a trial to go on, perhaps in June.
These include five 9/11 defendants, among them Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who are mired in seemingly endless pre-trial proceedings, as both sides try to figure out the rules of these jerry-rigged proto-courts.
That signalled a comfortable end to proceedings, with both sides making changes and former Latics midfielder Antonio Valencia going closest to a third goal when he shot wide.
Mr. Bibas cautioned the justices against disrupting the informality and effectiveness of child support proceedings in which neither side, he said, tends to be represented by a lawyer.
The home side dominated proceedings from the start and Franck Ribéry opened the scoring after only eight minutes with a stunning shot from outside the box.
"To its lively regret, however, the proceedings, neither on the side of France nor Luxemburg, have corresponded to the expectations entertained.
The home side dominated proceedings but could not find the elusive winning goal, with Ali Crawford coming close on a couple of occasions and Greg Docherty hitting the woodwork late on.
