This year’s San Francisco International Film Festival ( www.sffs.org ) April 24-May 8 offers a fabulous selection of some 175 films—dramas, comedies, documentaries, shorts, and more— from every corner of the globe.
Up Thursday, May 8 at the Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive at 3:15 p.m. is the […]

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I am giddy tonight about the election results, but also we have our own Movie Maven/Culture Maven here on Marin Maven. Her name is Geneva Anderson and she is willing to bring us along with her on her trips to various film festivals. I have gone to last years’ San Francisco Asian Film Festival and […]

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In the fury to clean up America, the 1986 war on drugs has sent record numbers of women to prison and their children into an overburdened foster care system. Several states have denied substance abusing pregnant women their constitutional and human rights by prosecuting them for their addiction as opposed to addressing it as […]

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The Lark Theater is going to be showing Johnathan Demme’s 2007 documentary, “Jimmy Carter Man from Plains” on Friday, March 21, 2008. The showtime is to be announced.
From Sony Pictures Classics:
“Jimmy Carter Man From Plains is an intimate, surprising encounter with President Jimmy Carter. Following the path of Mr. Carter’s recent controversial book tour […]

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This trailer is for the 42 minute film, “Family Court Crisis: Our Children At Risk” was created for the Center for Judicial Excellence by Kathleen Russell Consulting. Kathleen Russell recently ran for the Mar
in Healthcare District Board. The Center for Judicial Excellence (CJE) is a community-based organization “established to improve the judiciary’s public accountability and […]

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Without seeing this film, we will suggest everyone go see this regardless if your opinion matches the current president or the guy who should have been our president in 2000…cough…Al Gore…cough. It will be playing on June 2nd at the CineArts at Sequoia in Mill Valley (25 Throckmorton Ave), or the California Theaters in Berkeley […]

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