Events Calendar · October 2022
The MVFF Tribute to James Gray
Date: Saturday, October 8, 2022
Time: 6:30 pm in theater
Phone: 877-874.-6833
Celebrating 45 years of film in Marin County from October 6th through October 16th! The internationally renowned Mill Valley Film Festival offers a high-profile, prestigious, non-competitive environment perfect for celebrating the best in independent and world cinema. MVFF (the oldest fall film festival in California) remains committed to celebrating film and filmmakers and offering the highest resources and production elements possible, whatever challenges the world throws our way.
ARMAGEDDON TIME
SCREENING + TRIBUTE & PRESENTATION OF THE MVFF AWARD FOR DIRECTING
US 2022, 115 min, Director: James Gray
Acclaimed writer-director James Gray fashions his own family memories into a wistful, exquisitely performed character study, taking on race, class, and the American Dream. Banks Repeta stars as Paul, a white kid living in Queens in the early 1980s, hoping to break free of his parents’ working-class suburban life and become an artist. But when he befriends Black classmate Johnny (Jaylin Webb), Paul gets a very different education. The filmmaker behind devastatingly intimate dramas such as Two Lovers works with perhaps his finest ensemble—Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong play Paul’s weary parents, with Anthony Hopkins as his affable grandfather—to excavate our current affairs. Many directors look back at their childhoods with honeyed nostalgia; Gray spits in the eye of such rose-tinged reminiscences, exploring our shared culpability in creating a nation whose dreams of a better tomorrow seem to drift ever out of reach. —Tim Grierson
The MVFF Tribute program honors and celebrates lifetime achievements in the career of a significant film artist.
Following the program, please join us for a reception at the Outdoor Art Club in Mill Valley.
Additional Location or Other Information
Cine Arts Sequoia Theater in Mill Valley / Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael / The Lark Theater in Larkspur / BAMPFA in Berkeley / The Roxie in San Francisco
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