Mill Valley Film Festival - V(ision)Fest

12:08 East Bucharest

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:19:14 -0500

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Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, Corneliu Porumboiu’s tragicomic blend of bitterness and poignancy is reminiscent of the great 1960s Czech political comedies by Forman, Passer and Menzel.

PRECEDED BY: A Quiet Street

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

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:03:19 -0500

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This irreverent yet unexpectedly poignant documentary relates the incredible-but-true saga of the German Jewish chemist behind that hippy-chic iconic bottle of peppermint Castile soap, and the son who devised his own inspiring way of following in dad's footsteps.

PRECEDED BY: Diet Leibovich

Figner: The End of a Silent Century

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:23:41 -0500

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The finest and last practioner of a fading art, analog soundtrack designer Edgar Figner is cast aside by contemporary Russian society and retreats into the past, where reality, memory and stunning footage from Soviet films blend into an intimate portrait of the post-Soviet Russian experience.

Hi De Ho Show

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:55:58 -0500

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John Goddard, the maverick maestro behind Village Music, veejays the night away with rare gems from his personal music video archives. This year's theme: “One hit wonders, and gone…but forgotten.” An evening of mellifluous melodies and staggering style, amassed from the wurlitzer of obscurity.

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.

Pan

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:21:28 -0500

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An unlikely friendship between a homeless man and a middle-class child forces both to re-examine their lives and places in society. Tenderloin Y Group, a company of homeless actors, performs this alternately euphoric and heart-rending drama.

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

Walking to Werner

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:52:44 -0500

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Would you walk 1,200 miles for Werner Herzog? Linas Phillips did, and in true Herzog fashion, his film is a diary of folly, beauty and fierce determination.