The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)
Neat little documentary about a man and his adopted parrots. Mark Bittner is a strange and intriguing man, and if the film (by design, it's ultimately revealed) doesn't seem to probe too deeply into some unspoken parts of his life, neither is it entirely a puff job. Ultimately, the film's job is to show us Bittner and the parrots. And there's a wealth of that. It turns up to have an unexpected emotional heft, too. Frederick Wiseman is probably screaming somewhere, but I think this is worth seeing anyway.
Grade: B+
Neat little documentary about a man and his adopted parrots. Mark Bittner is a strange and intriguing man, and if the film (by design, it's ultimately revealed) doesn't seem to probe too deeply into some unspoken parts of his life, neither is it entirely a puff job. Ultimately, the film's job is to show us Bittner and the parrots. And there's a wealth of that. It turns up to have an unexpected emotional heft, too. Frederick Wiseman is probably screaming somewhere, but I think this is worth seeing anyway.
Grade: B+
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