Tag: foreign cinema

Mill Valley Film Festival 40 Wrap-Up and Reviews

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In recent years, I spent the first two weeks of October covering the Mill Valley Film Festival .  The festival celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, honoring the gamut of independent film, from star-heavy productions with awards in their sights (Sean Penn,  Greta Gerwig and Andrew Garfield were […]

Mill Valley Film Festival 39, The Weekdays (M-Th)

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Hard-working director Pablo Larraín, who showed The Club at last year’s Mill Valley Film Festival, traveled to the Bay Area again this year to debut two new movies. There is tomorrow’s closing night selection Jackie, an English-language biopic about Jackie Kennedy set in the immediate aftermath of the […]