Tag: Terence Davies

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 […]

“Sunset Song” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Sunset Song (2016; Terence Davies) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes The rare English-language movie with non-superfluous subtitles, Sunset Song debuted over a year ago at Cannes.  Meanwhile, the usually snail-paced Davies’ follow-up film A Quiet Passion already played last February in Berlin. Icy and warmly nostalgic, sprawling but […]