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Events
California Film Institute will participate in this inaugural film series, featuring 17 new and classic movies from the United Kingdom, Australia and Ireland. The Vogue Theater will open the series on February 27 with Michael Winterbottom's Genova, starring Colin Firth, and close on March 5 with the award-winning new British drama Hunger. The Rafael ...Read More
The Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film became a competitive category in 1956, and subsequently the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited dozens of countries annually to submit what each considers its best film for consideration in that category. This year, a record 67 films have been accepted for competition, and for the sixth ...Read More
Now in its seventh year, this series, presented by the California Film Institute and the Beyond Borders program of Marin Country Day School, entertains but also fosters global awareness in young people, offering films from around the world seldom available in the US. Children may use our headphone system to hear subtitles being read. Please note th ...Read More
The preeminent distributor of class foreign films in the United States for more than 50 years, Janus Films had its part in building a culture of film in our country. And just as, over the years, the Janus Collection has provided us with the closest thing to a cinematic canon, the company's home-video offshoot, the Criterion Collection, has come to ...Read More
Few actors have earned the title of Hollywood legend and American Prince. Tony Curtis is one. The Mill Valley Film Festival is pleased to present its MVFF award to screen icon Tony Curtis at San Francisco's majestic Castro Theatre. Born Bernard Schwartz, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, darkly handsome Tony Curtis catapulted to stardom in th ...Read More
To celebrate the publication of Mark A. Vieira's new
book, Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg's M-G-M, the
Rafael presents some rare treasures from this legendary producer. Called Hollywood's
"Boy Wonder," Irving Thalberg was running Universal Pictures at
the age of 20 and M-G-M at 23. From 1924 to his untimely death in 1936, h ...Read More
In association with the exhibition Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions,
as well as Mill Valley Film Festival's Tribute
to Harriet Andersson, the Smith Rafael Film Center presents some riches
and rarities from the career of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman
(1918-2007). Several of the films in this series feature p ...Read More
Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions is a multimedia installation
exploring the complex universe of one of the world's great filmmakers. Ingmar
Bergman (1918-2007) was the Swedish master of film and theater who
for six decades explored universal religious, moral and existential questions
in film masterpieces such as The Seve ...Read More
Welcome to the Mill Valley Film Festival's 31st edition. A celebration of the best in independent and world cinema. MVFF brings together a community of filmmakers and film lovers to Mill Valley, San Rafael and beyond to experience great new films in the beautiful environment of San Francisco's Bay Area. With it's reputation as a filmmakers' festiva ...Read More
Presented by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences
in association with the California Film Institute
As part of our ongoing partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences, we are pleased to present three films recently restored by the
Academy in cooperation with The Film Foundation and other organizations. Sm ...Read More
"Nilsson's films are beautiful, exciting, imaginative, unfamiliar-- and
outside of that, very good." - John Cassavetes
For the first time on the West Coast, Bay Area filmmaker Rob Nilsson
presents the complete 9 @ Night, a series of nine feature films he
produced over the last decade in collaboration with the Tenderloin yGroup, an
inner ...Read More
Tickets, all-festival passes and full schedule available starting June 24,
2008 at www.sfjff.org or 925-275-9490.
Join the Jewish Film Forum for ticket discounts and special benefits. Buy a
discount 10-Flix Card, good for 10 tickets, and save $20!
Rafael passes or discounts are not valid for these screenings. Advance tickets
are not availabl ...Read More
"Rise above it" is the daily mantra of the remarkable Mimi
Weddell, a 93-year-old
actress you've seen in ads and spreads in Vanity Fair and Vogue, and onscreen
in everything from Woody Allen movies to Sex in the City. This absolutely
fabulous documentary profiles the wit and eccentricities of this most unusual
woman, who began her actin ...Read More
James Stewart - American Icon
100th Birthday Celebration
We pay tribute to one of Hollywood's most beloved and recognizable
actors on the occasion of his centennial. American moviegoers' familiarity
and affection for James Stewart is reflected in the
fact that all of us prefer to call him "Jimmy." His natural
presence and lack of affectatio ...Read More
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