The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
Director:
Judy Irving
Tagline:
« The true story of a bohemian St Francis and his remarkable relationship with a flock of wild red and green parrots »
Actors:
Self
Self – Urban Legends
Self – Urban Legends
Self – Urban Legends
Self – Urban Legends
Genre:
Documentary
Rating:
(3’251 votes)
(3’251 votes)
Quotes:
« Mark Bittner: We're all one river till we hit this cliff. That distance between the top of the cliff and the bottom of the cliff is our life. And all the individual little droplets think they really are individual little droplets until they hit the bottom, and then they're gone. But that droplet doesn't lose anything, it gains. It gains the rest of the river.
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[first lines]
« French Tourist: Bonjour. Regarde ça. Wow.
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« Mark Bittner: You're not Fanny, either. Where's Fanny? Come on Fanny, where are you? There you are. Yes.
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« Mark Bittner: I don't think of myself as an eccentric. I saw these wild parrots, they were a big mystery to me, and I wanted to find out who they were.
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Trailer:
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Runtime:83 minutes
Plots:
A homeless musician finds meaning to his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.
In San Francisco, there are at least two flocks of largely wild parrots who flock around the city. This film focuses on the flock of cherry-headed conures (and a lonely blue-headed one named Connor) who flock around the Telegraph Hill region of the city and their closest human companion, Mark Bittner . Through his own words, we learn of his life as a frustrated, homeless musician and how he came to live in the area where he decided to explore the nature around him. That lead him to discovering the parrot flock and the individual personalities of it. In a cinematic portrait, we are introduced to his colorful companions and the relationship they share as well as the realities of urban wild life that would change Bittner’s life forever.
