The 45th festival offers 12 feature-length films and 18 shorts with Bay Area connections. Among the best of the lot are documentaries that offer intricate and nuanced reporting on a fiery issue.
The glamorous Mill Valley Film Festival is here, featuring some of the fall's biggest and most-talked-about movies. But the festival's lineup of local movies — both shot locally or made by local talent — is equally impressive.
What's remarkable about this documentary is that it listens. It listens carefully to both sides of the argument: to those who find the work offensive, and those who find it culturally and educationally important. "Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?" tells the life story of Grammy-winning bluesman Xavier Dephrepaulezz, also known as Fantastic Negrito. It's an epic story, beginning with his identity as perhaps the only Black Muslim kid in rural Massachusetts and including his headfirst jump into Oakland's vibrant musical scene.
Through interviews with Alice Waters, Jacques Pepin, Gayle Pirie and John Clark of Foreign Cinema, Celia Sack of Omnivore Books, some wonderful archive footage of Fisher herself , photos and readings of her prose, the documentary celebrates this free spirit. "Tukdam: Between Two Worlds" enters the metaphysical, exploring a curious phenomenon. Apparently, those who have mastered the art of meditation can meditate so deeply that if their body dies, it stays fresh and doesn't decompose for many days. It's just as if the person is sleeping.
Other features in the festival include Rob Nilsson's"Faultline," the third in a trilogy and"Triple Trouble," a film about a priest-turned-plumber set in the world of The Residents, a San Francisco-based band whose unidentified members wear top-hatted eyeballs on their heads.
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