Mill Valley Film Festival - October 06

50 Watt Fuse

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:09:11 -0500

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50 Watt Fuse presents the musical life of quintessential sideman, musicologist and guitarist G.E. Smith, front man for Saturday Night Live's house band for 10 years and guitarist for Hall & Oates, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, among others.

PRECEDED BY: Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business

Discussion and mini-set by G.E. Smith and Simon Kirke follows the October 6 screening. G.E. Smith & Friends perform a live concert at 142 Throckmorton Theatre on October 7. Click here for more details.

5@5: Truth Be Known

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:49:10 -0500

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How do we judge what is true and what is real? How can the medium of film or video manipulate the truth and fabricate a whole new reality? Complicated questions call for shrewd shorts, and here's where to get 'em!

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: 00h17, Apocalypse Oz, Cataract, Filter, Gandhi at the Bat, Screening

5@5: When You Dance You Can Really Love

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:46:20 -0500

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The beautiful but complicated choreography of love and intimacy is explored from many perspectives and camera angles in these shorts of passion, both blossoming and breaking.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Breathe Me, I'm Not Going to Think About Her, The Lovers, Minutiae, Mono, Orange Blossom, Shortstop

Avenue Montaigne

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:59:19 -0500

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As breezy as a stroll along the chic Parisian street where it unfolds, this engaging romantic comedy from writer-director Danièle Thompson offers an all-star cast in several intertwined tales of the upscale Champs-Elysées cultural scene.

Cinematographer Style

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:28:53 -0500

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More than 100 of the world's most gifted cinematographers, including László Kovács, Vittorio Storaro, Haskell Wexler and Gordon Willis, illuminate their magical artform through candid interviews and insider revelations in this dream doc for film fanatics.

Family Law

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:00:00 -0500

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This fresh Argentine comic drama about finding one's place in life offers emotionally rewarding insights into the life of a late-bloomer Ariel Perelman, a young, floundering law professor who lives in the shadow of his much-admired attorney father.

I'm Seducible

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:30:20 -0500

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How does a rebellious Beijing artist juggle two cultures and two men as she makes a new life for herself in San Francisco? Follow Shi-Wei as she reclaims her own ambitions amid the sacrifice required by her newfound freedom.

Infamous

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:03:04 -0500

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Writer-director Douglas McGrath's version of Truman Capote's writing of In Cold Blood will take you to heights of society and depths of emotion not visited before. With a star-studded ensemble cast including Sigourney Weaver, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Lapislazuli: In the Eye of the Bear

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:29:26 -0500

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A meteorite crashes in the Alps, awakening a frozen Neanderthal boy. Then Bataa and Sophie meet, in a crash of modern and ancient worlds. Sophie risks everything to help Bataa, who can't survive in this time and place.

Madeinusa

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:15:13 -0500

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Like a South American version of The Wickerman, this haunting feature debut from Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa captures the clash of urban and village cultures.

Men at Work

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:16:47 -0500

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In this absurdist comedy-meets-Sufi parable, four 50-something buddies returning from a ski trip in an SUV try to push over a huge stone on the side of a mountain road.

Milarepa

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:25:55 -0500

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Buddhist monk Neten Chokling's directorial debut, breathtakingly filmed on the Indo-Tibetan border, vividly recounts the 11th-century legend of a young man who turns from violence to become the revered Tibetan saint Milarepa.

Opening

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:16:51 -0500

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An art opening, a real estate developer, a resolute gallery owner and a cataclysmic cyclone storm form the key coordinates of this riveting Direct Action film by Rob Nilsson, working in collaboration with Kansas City Filmmakers.

Outside/In

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:31:04 -0500

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These five fine, fearless films explore with dignity and respect the risks and rewards of lives lived outside the mainstream, either by choice, by birth or by social assignation.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Days and the Hours, One in 2000, Reporter Zero, Stuffed

VidéOnze

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:30:35 -0500

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Eleven shorts featuring some sensuous and sonorous forays into the world of abstract animation.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Afraid So, All That Remains, Ambassadors Day, Arcs of Texture , Falling , Going Home, The Intimacy of Strangers , Outside, Phantom Limb, Vitruvius' Toybox, Wakeup