Topic: Mike Mills

The Oscar nominations came out this morning and there's at least one acknowledgement of a nuanced gay role: Christopher Plummer is up for Best...

Brantford house leveled by explosion

A Brantford house was leveled by an unknown explosion Thursday afternoon.. . Despite severely damaging neighbouring homes and spraying the street...

Miranda July creates her own world

0 . - . . Utah - If Woody Allen takes the time to look behind him, he will see Miranda July following his career path. Like Allen, July creates her...

Film Review: Beginners (4 stars)

By Vanessa Farquharson. . Movies about sadness are inherently movies about happiness, too, because any attempt to deconstruct grief or depression...
After the filmmaker Mike Mills lost his mother, his cancer-ridden 75-year-old father made an announcement: All his life, he'd been gay.. . "Having...

An open heart

0 View Larger Image . One of the things that impressed filmmaker Mike Mills most when he directed Ewan McGregor in his new autobiographical comedy...

Garchik

0 . East Bay high school teacher Bob Moorhead has heard countless reasons students ask permission to leave class, but never until last week, "I...

High honor for high headquarters

0 View Larger Image . Sand Studios, which did the interiors for SPARC, the San Francisco Patient Resource Center, was recently given a Citation...

SF fest's opening night

0 . A masseur was on duty at the San Francisco International Film Festival's opening-night party Thursday night. If anyone needed to avail himself...

SF Film Fest lineup

0 . "On Tour," a film by Mathieu Amalric about American burlesque dancers performing in provincial France, will close the 54th San Francisco...