In the Valley of Edward

Roadside took four, count 'em, four films to the Mill Valley Film Festival this weekend. The screenings of Starting Out In the Evening, Chicago 10 and Caramel were excellent. But the man of the hour in Mill Valley was definitely Edward Espe Brown. The How To Cook Your Life star rallied the home-town crowd for a sold-out, overflow screening of the film. Here's a report from intrepid Roadside publicist extraordinaire, Meghann Burns:

HTCYL was the talk of the fest yesterday. Edward gave a witty introduction in the overflow theatre in San Rafael, making the point that "He doesn't go to the movies and now he is in one." We continued over to the sold-out Sequoia Theatre to watch the rest of the film with a captivated Marin audience. The theatre had a "rush" line in Mill Valley proper and had to turn some people away. Almost everyone stayed for the Q & A . People really responded to the film and laughed out loud consistently. They all seemed most surprised at Edward’s emotional teapot scene.The woman from the film and trailer that picks apples and makes the Bush comment also attended. She was quite funny. She arrived on her bike (from a couple towns away) with her banjo. Her and Edward shut the party down and she headed off on her bike.
How To Cook Your Life opens in the San Francisco Bay area on October 26th and will roll out across the country through November/December.