I've managed to preview three (well, two and a half) features that will screen at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Here's what I thought of them: A Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine If a film makes me cry, it gets an A. This documentary about the horrific, homophobic murder of a young gay … Continue reading Mill Valley Film Festival Preview
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This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival Announced Today
In the Bay Area, we have film festivals for Jews, Arabs, Irish, atheists, Asians, South Asians, Asian Americans, blacks, gays, and gay blacks. We have festivals for people who love silent movies, film noir, comedy, and horror. And we have film festivals for people who just love movies. The Mill Valley Film Festival is one … Continue reading This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival Announced Today
My Day at the Mill Valley Film Festival
I spend Sunday at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Here's what I saw and what I thought about it: New Movies Lab: Industry Panel I started the day not with a movie, but with a panel discussion on how independent filmmakers can promote their films and get people to see them. Much of it concentrated … Continue reading My Day at the Mill Valley Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival Preview
Getting ready for the Mill Valley Film Festival? Here are four films that I've been able to preview: A The Central Park Five, Rafael, Saturday, October 6, 3:30; Monday, October 8, 3:15. In 1989, a white woman was brutally raped and left for dead in Central Park. New York's finest arrested five black and Puerto … Continue reading Mill Valley Film Festival Preview
This Year’s Mill Valley Film Festival Announced
As summer closes, the superhero blockbusters dry up. In their place comes a whole other genre--Oscar bait. That's okay, because these are usually the best films of the year. And if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, your first chance to catch the Oscar bait is usually the Mill Valley Film Festival. The … Continue reading This Year’s Mill Valley Film Festival Announced
Mill Valley Film Festival Preview
Here’s a quick preview of two films I’ve been able to preview for the Mill Valley Film Festival: B- Small, Beautifully Moving Parts, Sequoia, Saturday, October 8, 4:00; Rafael, Monday, October 10, 9:00. Sarah, a young, very pregnant technology geek (Anna Margaret Hollyman), sets out to find her estranged, irresponsible living-off-the-grid mother. Sarah’s unique personality … Continue reading Mill Valley Film Festival Preview
Marilyn Monroe Mistake
This morning I received a blurb advertising the Mill Valley Film Festival’s Centerpiece presentation of My Week with Marilyn. Here’s how the blurb described the film’s historical setting: In his memoir, The Prince, the Showgirl and Me, Colin Clark chronicled an epochal moment on the set with the legendary Laurence Olivier and luminous Marilyn Monroe, … Continue reading Marilyn Monroe Mistake
Mill Valley Film Festival On the Way
The kids are back in school. The sun is setting a little earlier. The big-budget special effects extravaganzas are giving way to the occasional thoughtful film. You know what that means. This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival can’t be far behind. This is the other big general film festival for Bay Area cinephiles, after the … Continue reading Mill Valley Film Festival On the Way
Newsletter Addendum: Mill Valley Film Festival
As I mentioned a while back, other responsibilities have pushed Bayflicks further back on my priorities list. That’s the only excuse I can think of this oversight. In last week’s newsletter, I completely forgot to mention the opening of the Mill Valley Film Festival Thursday night. Nor did I post anything on the opening film, … Continue reading Newsletter Addendum: Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival
This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival started out the gate Tuesday morning with a press conference. By coming at the end of summer, the Bay Area’s other big film festival has one big advantage over that spring shindig in San Francisco: It gives this part of the world our first chance to catch some of … Continue reading The Mill Valley Film Festival
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