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Damien Chazelle: We’re Too Narrative-Focused When It Comes to Movies
As we emerge on the other side of the long film festival season and move into awards season,...
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MVFF37 Days 10 & 11: After The Fall, Timbuktu, & Wild
Closing weekend of the Mill Valley Film Festival just proves the authority of this small festival. It’s rare...
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Maika Monroe On Being a Badass, ‘The Guest’
In Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s The Guest, their genre-blending follow-up to 2013’s You’re Next, Dan Stevens plays an ex-soldier...
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Camp X-Ray
Camp X-Ray opens like a tense thriller, with the capture of Ali Amir (Peyman Moaadi) and his transportation to...
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The Reel Indie Film Festival Brings A Wide Selection of Docs, Shorts and Music Videos
Only in its second year, the Reel Indie Film Festival (or RIFF for short) is kicking things off...
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MVFF37 Day 9: St. Vincent, Foxcatcher, & Two Days, One Night
Three of our most anticipated films at the Mill Valley Film Festival played on Day 9 in the...
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The Guest
If you’re familiar with Dan Stevens, it’s probably with his work on Downton Abbey as the kind-hearted English gentleman Matthew Crawley. Other...
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MVFF37 Day 8: The Theory of Everything, 10,000 KM, & Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
Forget waiting for the weekend to bring in the heavy hitters, Mill Valley says “It’s Thursday. Let’s party!” And...
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It Was You Charlie
The moment near the end of a film that puts everything you have just watched into perspective is...
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MVFF37 Day 7: Charlie’s Country, Nightcrawler, Black and White
We’re at the midpoint of the Mill Valley Film Festival and this is where I jump in. Having...
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Nadav Schirman, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Gonen Ben Yitzhak, and the Amazing Story of ‘The Green Prince’
A Palestinian and son of a Hamas leader, Mosab Hassan Yousef was raised deeply entrenched in the Middle...
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NYFF 2014: Listen Up Philip
In Alex Ross Perry’s follow up to The Color Wheel, the writer/director introduces us to author Philip Lewis...
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Automata
Sci-fi thriller Automata’s obvious parallel – so obvious that it has dominated press publicity — is with I,...
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MVFF37 Day 6: Whiplash, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
After five days of the typical film festival arthouse heartbreakers and soul-shakers, I began to feel a bit...
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Hossein Amini: I Struggle So Much With Dialogue…I Find Silent Storytelling More Interesting
Best known for writing Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive, Hossein Amini makes his directorial debut with the ’60s noir-ish throwback, The...