Tag: mill valley film festival

“Mia Madre” + “In Order of Disappearance” Movie Reviews

Mia Madre (2016; Nanni Moretti) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes The 39th annual Mill Valley Film Festival kicks off in about a month, and I plan to cover it here in a fashion similar to my 2014 and 2015 coverage.  A full schedule comes out in a couple […]

MVFF37, Days 4 and 5 – “We’re a Happy Family”

Monday saw me back in Sacramento, taking an off day from live screenings and spending some quality time with the wife and pets.  However, I did manage to polish off a couple of screeners for films that played at Mill Valley this year, and my plan is to […]

Mill Valley Film Festival 37, Day 2 – “Saturday, Bloody Saturday”

The temperature today at the Mill Valley Film Festival reached 90 degrees, and the locals that I talked to could not recall a hotter Autumn in the festival’s history.  When you consider that the nicest suit most locals wear outside is a bicycle jersey, it could have been […]

MVFF37, Day 1 – “Beauties and the Beast”

I was not able to make it to the first night of the 37th annual Mill Valley Film Festival, which opened with the Tommy Lee Jones-directed western The Homesman, introduced live by star Hilary Swank.   Although I had already screened about a half dozen films that will […]