MVFF 38 celebrates this year the women of film with many of its highlighted events and films: Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan; spotlights on and tributes to Sarah Silverman, Brie Larson, Catherine Hardwicke; and, a very […]
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MVFF37: The Music and México
It is entirely fitting that the Mill Valley Film Festival, which has always had a strong rock music affiliation, includes in its ¡Viva El Cine¡ section two music documentaries of Mexican musicians. And what an […]
MVFF35: Argo dir. Ben Affleck
Mr. Affleck’s film wonderfully captures claustrophobia: in Teheran, where its residents spy and betray each other; at the Canadian ambassador’s home, where the six American hostages pace day and night; the Hollywood lot, where the […]
MVFF35: Reality dir. Matteo Garrone
Reality is one of the most unusual films I’ve seen this year. I wanted to derive some (bourgeois) pleasure from it, but I couldn’t. And pleasure is definitely not Mr. Garrone’s intention. In Reality, the […]
MVFF 35: Aquí y Allá dir. Antonio Mendez Esparza
In a particularly heartbreaking scene, Pedro scrambles on foot all over town, looking for expensive medicines which will save his wife, in danger of dying in childbirth. As he walks through the streets in a […]
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