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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, 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 […]