Mill Valley Film Festival - October 15

3 Needles

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:43:45 -0500

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Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles, a tripartite look at the AIDS epidemic, forgoes headline sensationalism to focus on how different communities and families in varying corners of the globe cope with the AIDS epidemic.

Astronaut Farmer

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:51:59 -0500

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Charlie Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton) is a Texas rancher with a giant dream. Once an astronaut-in-training, he's built his own rocket in his barn and is determined to launch it into space, with the US government working just as hard to see him fail.

Boy Who Turned Yellow

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:33:46 -0500

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The makers of The Red Shoes and the Thief of Baghdad turn a hat trick with this 1972 period piece about a boy, aliens, the Tower of London, television waves and the bothersome problem of being turned yellow.

PRECEDED BY: The Thief

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.

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

Frozen City

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:01:01 -0500

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Full of frank and believable conversations and interactions, this portrait of a taxi driver whose life is on a downward trajectory offers an indelible, intimate portrait of a life gone awry.

Full Grown Men

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:54:35 -0500

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Full Grown Men is the quirky, bittersweet tale of a clueless young man who refuses to grow up and his comic journey to adulthood.

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

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.

Host

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:45:34 -0500

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This surprise hit of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival—starring a 30ft. long squid-thing that terrorizes the citizens of Seoul—is a genre-bending, raucous fun and definitely frightening monster flick.

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.

I Am

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:01:47 -0500

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Conjuring shades of Truffaut's 400 Blows, I Am is a visually stunning film about a young boy's search for home. Piotr Jagielski's performance as 11-year-old Kundel fascinates.

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.