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Mill Valley Film Festival 39, Weekend 1

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Once again this year, the Mill Valley Film Festival got off to a splashy, star-heavy start, with west coast premieres of Arrival and La La Land attended by their respective stars Amy Adams and Emma Stone.  My noble colleagues in the San Francisco Film Critics Circle even hobnobbed […]

“Fireworks Wednesday” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Fireworks Wednesday (2006; Asghar Farhadi) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes After the overwhelming acclaim of A Separation and a mini-crossover with The Past, the early films of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi have started trickling into American arthouses.  His excellent 2009 film About Elly toured stateside arthouse theaters last […]