Bernard Boo
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Mill Valley Film Festival: Day 2 Recap
After a jam-packed opening night full of excitement and energy, day two of the Mill Valley Film Festival was a day of more narrowed focus. At the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center (long name, but a simple, pristine...
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Mill Valley Film Festival: Day 1 Recap
Nestled in the green, redwood-populated hills of Mill Valley, the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival kicked off with a duo of gorgeous dramas: Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and Brian Percival’s The Book Thief. The arrival of several special guests from the films...
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Mill Valley Film Festival Coverage Introduction
Starting tonight, October 3rd and going through October 13th, the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival will be rolling out the red carpet for local Bay Area filmmakers, movie stars, and acclaimed directors from around the world in the gorgeous...
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Interview: Spencer McCall and Jeff Hull of The Institute
(Source: Getty Images) In The Institute, the new documentary directed by Spencer McCall, we’re given a glimpse into the world of “The Games of Nonchalance”, an urban-exploratory alternate reality game that took place back in 2008 throughout the hilly...
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We Are What We Are
Jim Mickle loosely remakes Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 horror flick, Somos lo Que Hay, with We Are What We Are, an American Gothic mutation of Grau’s well-received tale about a family of cannibals. More family drama than gore fest,...
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Concussion
A moody, sexy drama with bursts of black comedy sprinkled throughout, Concussion takes familiar themes–infidelity, complacency, mid-life anxiety–and explores them from the fresh perspective of a fascinating (if a little unsympathetic) protagonist, a lesbian suburban housewife named Abby (Robin...
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Interview: Jim Mickle of We Are What We Are
After directing Stakeland and Mulberry Street, two indie horror films that are slowly building cult followings, director Jim Mickle is back with his third film, We Are What We Are (a remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 film of...
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Interview: Stacie Passon of Concussion
In Concussion, first-time writer-director Stacie Passon gives us a glimpse into the doldrums of lesbian suburbia and how a bored housewife (Robin Weigert), awakened to her unfulfilling malaise by her son (who conks her in the head with a...
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Interview: Robin Weigert and Jonathan Tchaikovsky of Concussion
With Concussion, first-time writer-director Stacie Passon gives us a glimpse into the doldrums of lesbian suburbia and how a bored housewife (Robin Weigert), awakened to her unfulfilling malaise by her son (who conks her in the head with a...
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Interview: Erik Matti of On the Job
Filipino director Erik Matti’s new crime thriller On the Job (my review) is based on a real-life Filipino scandal in which government officials used prisoners as hitmen, convincing prison wardens to release them for a day to carry out political...
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On the Job
It’s genius in a wicked kind of way, really. Hire a hitman who’s already in prison. Get him outside the prison walls for a day (corrupt prison guards come in handy here). He’ll make the hit, return to the...
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Interview: Megumi Sasaki and Dorothy Vogel of Herb and Dorothy 50X50
Herb & Dorothy 50X50 (our review) follows the titular legendary art collectors as they set up the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, an unprecedented sharing of their world-class personal collection of conceptual art pieces...
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Herb & Dorothy 50X50
Imagine this: You’re watching an episode of Hoarders about a couple who live in a tiny one-bedroom Manhattan apartment and have stuff piled so high and tightly that there’s no possible way they could cram in more. The kicker...
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C.O.G.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier With Practice) has been gifted the very first crack at translating the work of acclaimed writer David Sedaris to the big screen with C.O.G., a soul-seeker dramedy adapted from one of Sedaris’ short stories. Faithful...
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Mademoiselle C
A documentary portrait of a fashion “goddess” whose most vivacious and interesting golden days are behind her, Mademoiselle C is so formless and banal that it’ll only appeal to those already obsessed with and privy to the glammy, kissy-kissy...