Mill Valley Film Festival - October 14

Black Gold

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:46:15 -0500

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For Ethiopian coffee farmers a delicious cup of Joe represents the corrupt side of the global economy. Black Gold exposes the political, economic and cultural consequences of the worldwide coffee business.

Breast Cancer Diaries

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:22:14 -0500

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With grace, grit and humor, TV journalist and full-time mom Ann Murray Paige documents her own journey with stage 2 breast cancer. Through nine months of medical treatment, this luminous Everywoman goes through hell and keeps going, fighting to maintain a sense of herself as a woman, mother, wife and professional.

PRECEDED BY: Toxic Bust: Chemicals and Breast Cancer

Candy

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:42:59 -0500

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Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish give electrifying performances in this seductive and harrowing tale of two junkies in love, directed by Australian theater wizard Neil Armfield and based on the novel by Luke Davies, with Geoffrey Rush as the lovers' comrade-in-heroin.

Catch a Fire

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:57:34 -0500

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Suspense-filled dramatization of Patrick Chamusso's life as a non-political family man whose apartheid-era false arrest forces him to re-examine his life and make a startling decision.

Cine Manifest

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

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This poignant, hilarious and fascinating film charts the giddy highs and teeth-gnashing lows of a unique Marxist political film collective that rose from the utopian ideologies of the '60s and somehow survived the turmoil and tumult of the '70s.

PRECEDED BY: McLaren's Negatives

Deliver Us from Evil

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:17:57 -0500

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A chilling portrait of moral deception and innocence lost from filmmaker Amy Berg centers on one of the most unsettling documentary protagonists in memory – the twinkle-eyed local parish priest with the treacherous heart of gold.

Emile Norman: By His Own Design

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:13:57 -0500

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A wonderfully warm portrait of a renowned and respected gay American artist in his 80s who transforms dirt, wood, rock and cement into works as beautiful and quirky as his own trademark purple beret.

PRECEDED BY: Phoenix Dance

First Snow

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:51:43 -0500

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Can you change your destiny, or are our fates predestined? These are questions New Mexico salesman Jimmy Munson (Guy Pearce) is about to ask—and become obsessed with—in this haunting, high-adrenalin tale.

Fuss, Mess and Scrumble

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:26:52 -0500

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These short films for little people are dedicated to the joy of discovery by new eyes.You'll enjoy a hand-picked mélange of giraffes, dinosaurs, cats, dogs, fish, ants, lobsters and an entire barnyard.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: The Brave Cat, Coconut Island, Fence, Fuss, Mess and Scrumble, Happy Day, I Love My Doctor, The Impatient Patient, Invasion of the Space Lobsters, James Marshall's Cinderella, Little Blue, Little Pig Is Flying, Moondance, On the Farm, The Propellerbird, Small Ant Syndrome, There Was the Moon and a Fox , War and Peas

Georgi and the Butterflies

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:10:16 -0500

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Dr. Georgi Lulchev's indefatigable entrepreneurial scheming has kept his home for psychologically challenged men afloat in the turbulent waters of post-Cold War capitalism in Bulgaria.

PRECEDED BY: Outsider: The Life and Art of Judith Scott

Gretchen

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:03:21 -0500

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Winner of the Los Angeles Film Festival's Target Filmmaker Award, Gretchen explores the hilarious and aching confusion of adolescence. Often compared to Napoleon Dynamite, this darker and, yes, quirkier film celebrates a misfit we know all too well, and love just the same.

Have You Heard from Johannesburg?

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:41:21 -0500

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Academy-Award–nominated filmmaker Connie Field (Freedom on My Mind) traces the turbulent rise of the 1980s anti-apartheid movement in this tightly constructed and enlightening documentary.

Hotel Harabati

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:45:10 -0500

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A stylish, surreal dark comedy that boldly examines the risks of daily life in the age of terrorism.

Hyphy

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:38:22 -0500

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Fourteen films equals fourteen fresh views on life, including one on what hyphy means to Berkeley High students. The filmmakers and the jury are invited and will be onstage for the celebration of these talented new filmmakers.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Colony, Envious Heart, Every 15 Minutes, Humor Me, Maggie and Ernie, Mirrors, Moab Monster, Modern Attraction, Nine Days, Oranges, The Hyphy Movement, Tree in the Forest, The Trend Experiment, Valentine's Day, What If Jesus Were Gay?

Little Children

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:27:37 -0500

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Todd Field (In the Bedroom, MVFF 2001) takes a fresh but cynical look at the myth of suburban utopia. Tensions rise as a young mom (Kate Winslet) and stay-at-home-dad (Patrick Wilson) develop a dangerously close friendship and a convicted sex offender moves into the neighborhood.