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Photos: Jamie Foxx, Edward Norton highlight star-studded Mill Valley Film...
Courtesy of MVFFJamie Foxx, left, and Michael B. Jordan star in "Just Mercy." Foxx is scheduled to appear during this year's Mill Valley Film Festival.Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/APJamie Foxx,...
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Mill Valley Film Festival 2019: Jamie Foxx, Edward Norton on star-studded...
Courtesy of MVFFJamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan in "Just Mercy." Foxx is scheduled to appear during this year's Mill Valley Film Festival. (Courtesy MVFF)Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/APJamie Foxx,...
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Documentaries offer food for thought at the Mill Valley Film Festival
Food- and farming- focused films will offer food for thought at the 42nd annual, internationally acclaimed Mill Valley Film Festival from Oct. 3 to 13. Among the highlights is Matt Wechsler and Annie...
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MVFF: Taking on the stigma of being an older single woman
Courtesy of Petra HansonPetra Hanson revisits her former life in Japan and reimagines her future in a scene from "XMas Cake: This America Shelf-life."Lost in Tokyo, a scene from Petra Hanson's "XMas...
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MVFF: Duo finds an audience and each other in the music of Johnny Cash and...
Danny Uzilevsky and Essence Goldman were on stage at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley recently shooting a promotional video for a Johnny Cash-June Carter tribute show they’re developing called...
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MVFF: An ode to those who are willing to get lost
Courtesy of Alexandra Lexton“When I came to Belize it seemed a muse had landed on my shoulder. Certain places lend themselves to you wholly, and for me, that place was this little Central American...
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Appearances by Robert Pattinson, Jamie Foxx, Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and Alfre Woodard will grab much of the attention at this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs through Oct. 13. But just...
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Jamie Foxx among stars at Mill Valley Film Festival gala
Just Mercy actor Jamie Foxx talks to the media during the Mill Valley Film Festival Opening Night event in Mill Valley on Thursday. (Douglas Zimmerman/Special to Marin Independent Journal)Just Mercy...
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Alfre Woodard, Olivia Wilde, Danny Trejo on hand for Mill Valley Film...
Actress Alfre Woodard speaks during a showing of her new film Clemency as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival on Sunday (Tommy Lau photo)Actress Alfre Woodard (center) arrives for a showing of her...
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Filmmaking couple finds meaning in ‘Gold’
Photo by Bob Marshak)Charlie (Chris Cooper) befriends Lalu (Rosalind Chin), who slowly grows to love him, in "Thousand Pieces of Gold," the recently digitally restored 1991 film by Greenbrae s Nancy...
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With the presidential election looming ahead, discussions of voting and voter suppression have ramped up these past few months. Learn more about America’s history of voter suppression and some of the...
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Tiburon filmmaker puts lens on Phyllis Thelen for Mill Valley Film Festival
When Harris Cohen was growing up, watching movies was an escape from troubles and the world around him. It’s a love he’s carried with him throughout his life, except now he’s behind the camera making...
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MVFF premieres documentary on Vietnam War draft resistance movement
In 1982 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., inscribed with the names of 57,939 members of U.S. armed forces who had died or were missing as a result of the war. More were...
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Video of a drummer’s emotional farewell debuts at Mill Valley Film Festival
One of the most poignant stories in local music unfolded last fall with the end of jazz drummer Michael Aragon’s 36-year run at Sausalito’s No Name Bar. I was there for one of the 75-year-old...
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Fairfax’s James Redford explores play as wellness in documentary
(Courtesy of KPJR Films) "NBC Nightly News" and "Dateline NBC" journalist Lester Holt plays in a band in a scene from "Playing For Keeps," by Fairfax resident James Redford.Fairfax filmmaker James...
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Young Marin filmmakers document migrant caravan in Mexico
Migrants are escorted back into the Benito Juarez sports complex after receiving food in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 18, 2018, in an image from the documentary "Migrantes" by Ian Duncanson and Ethan...
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Mill Valley fixture struggles to save pandemic-challenged business
Famous4 shop owner Larry Lautzker looks over items for sale outside his store in Mill Valley on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal)Famous4 shop owner Larry Lautzker looks...
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A sign featuring famed filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock reminds movie goers to social distance at the Mill Valley Film Festival in San Rafael this week. The pandemic has prompted the 43rd Mill Valley Film...
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In ‘most challenging year,’ Mill Valley Film Festival wraps up 43rd season
Despite showing fewer films and hustling to pivot to online streaming and drive-in screenings for the first time, the 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival accomplished what it set out to do, organizers said....
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