Mill Valley Film Festival - US Cinema

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.

Babel

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:05:45 -0500

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Alejandro González Iñárritu's multilingual, multilayered masterpiece explores the paradox of humanity's interconnectedness despite our inability to truly communicate. Jumping from Morocco to Mexico to Japan, an American tourist is shot, and lives are instantly connected.

Drifting Elegant

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:44:09 -0500

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Locally produced, the suspenseful Drifting Elegant focuses on Victor, a young Arab-American man convicted of rape, and three educated San Franciscans whose lives he affects, triggering a web of secrets, sexual desire and prejudice.

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.

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.

Good Year

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:50:07 -0500

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Six years after their staggering collaboration on Gladiator, Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe have reunited in making 2006 a good year, indeed. A delightful tale that reminds us that fine wine in the Provençal sunshine can change your life, if you're ready for it.

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.

Holly

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:07:06 -0500

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With powerful performances and a searing look into Cambodia's underbelly, Holly explores the overwhelming problem of and demand for human trafficking. All the more, what happens when one stops, looks into a stranger's eyes and knows they are worth saving.

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.

Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:43:09 -0500

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Third-rate lounge singer Johnny Slade just can’t seem to catch a break, until he’s hired by a mysterious club owner to perform in one of the hottest nightclubs in town. But as his popularity rises, Johnny becomes aware of the strange correlation between the songs and the morning newspaper crime reports.

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.

Nail Polish

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:53:41 -0500

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Side ponytails, midriff-baring tanks and Jawzee accents abound in newcomer Jane Ainbinder's Nail Polish, an endearingly awkward look at the life of two girls in the 1980s who are navigating the difficult terrain of sexual curiosity on the Jersey shore.

Read You Like a Book

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:48:50 -0500

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Set off when a mysterious book is delivered, this tale of intrigue, scandal, love and redemption follows 24 hours of an extraordinary day at a small neighborhood Berkeley bookstore.

Treatment

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:29:31 -0500

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A tightly edited, fast-paced romantic drama in which emotionally damaged Manhattan prep-school teacher (Chris Eigeman) tries to extract the therapist from hell (Ian Holm) from his psyche, while entering newfound romance with a sexy widow (Famke Janssen).