#35: Cathy's Birthday: the Intruder, Amateur, Stella Dallas.

The Intruder dir: Claire Denis starring: Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva.

Amateur dir: Hal Hartley starring: Martin Donovan, Isabelle Huppert, Parker Posey, Elina Löwensohn, Michael Imperioli, Erica Gimpel, Tim Blake Nelson.

Stella Dallas dir: King Vidor starring: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil.

#34: Scapegoats: Standard Operating Procedure, Michael Clayton, I Want to Live! Plus an interview with Errol Morris.

Standard Operating Procedure dir: Errol Morris

Michael Clayton dir: Tony Gilroy starring: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollack.

I Want to Live! dir: Robert Wise starring: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Peter Breck.

Plus an interview with Standard Operating Procedure director Errol Morris.


Notes/Corrections:

• Rory Kennedy's documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
• "After the War: Life post-Yugoslavia" is a forthcoming compilation of documentary shorts available June 2008 at A Million Movies a Minute.
  

#33 Chick Flicks: Baby Mama, 27 Dresses, Jumpin' Jack Flash.

Baby Mama dir: Michael McCullers starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Steve Martin, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor.

27 Dresses dir: Anne Fletcher starring: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Judy Greer, Melora Hardin, Ed Burns, Malin Akerman.

Jumpin' Jack Flash dir: Penny Marshall starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Roscoe Lee Browne, Carol Kane, Phil Hartman, Tracey Ullman, Garry Marshall, Kellie Martin.



Notes/Corrections:

• Erin's tribute to Great Moms in Movie History.

#32: SFIFF: Up the Yangtze, Still Life, Medicine for Melancholy, Ice People, Mataharis, Faubourg Treme. Plus Audrey Chang & Lourdes Portillo.

The 51st San Francisco International film festival is running from April 24th to May 8th.

Up the Yangtze dir: Yung Chang.
Winner of the Golden Gate Documentary Feature Prize.

Still Life dir: Jia Zhang-ke starring: Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Li Zhu Bing, Wang Hongwei

Interview with Audrey Chang, documentary programmer and Golden Gate awards manager for the SFIFF51

Medicine for Melancholy dir: Barry Jenkins starring: Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins.
Winner of the SFIFF Audience Prize for Best Narrative Film.

Ice People dir: Anne Aghion

Mataharis dir: Icíar Bollaín starring: Najwa Nimri, Tristán Ulloa, María Vázquez, Diego Martín, Nuria González, Antonio de la Torre

Faubourg Treme: the Untold Story of Black New Orleans dir: Dawn Logsdon.
Winner of the Golden Gate Bay Area Documentary Feature Prize.

Interview with film-maker Lourdes Portillo.


Notes/Corrections

• Read more SFIFF coverage coming soon to Erin's blog Steady Diet of Film.

SMYT #31: Let's Talk About War: Stop-Loss, Punishment Park, No End in Sight, interview with Audrey Marrs.

Stop-Loss dir: Kimberly Peirce starring: Ryan Phillipe, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Abbie Cornish, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum, Victor Rasuk.

Punishment Park dir: Peter Watkins starring: Carmen Argenziano, Patrick Boland.

No End in Sight dir: Charles Ferguson

Interview with Audrey Marrs producer of No End in Sight.


Bonus: Extended interview with Audrey Marrs.

SMYT #30 SFIFF preview: Forbidden Lie$, FLOW: For Love of Water, Ballast, Stranded: I've come from a plane that crashed on the mountains

Our first episode dedicated to covering the 51st San Francisco International film festival running from April 24th to May 8th.

Forbidden Lie$ dir: Anna Broinowski starring: Norma Khouri, Linda Mutawi.
Winner of the Golden Gate Documentary Feature Special Jury Prize.

FLOW: For Love of Water dir: Irena Salina starring: Maude Barlow, Shelly Brime, Anthony Burgmans, Vandana Shiva

Ballast dir: Lance Hammer starring: Micheal J. Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail.
Winner of the FIPRESCI prize.

Stranded: I've come from a plane that crashed on the mountains dir: Gonzalo Arijon.
Winner of Audience Prize for Best Documentary.

SMYT #29: Border Politics: Under the Same Moon, In the Pit, Cowboy del Amor.

Under the Same Moon dir: Patricia Riggen starring: Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Adrian Alonso, Los Tigres del Norte, Jesse Garcia, America Ferrera, Maya Zapata.

In the Pit dir: Juan Carlos Rulfo.

Cowboy del Amor dir: Michèle Ohayon.

SMYT #28: Spotlight: SFIAAFF: I'm a Cyborg But That's Ok, Planet B-Boy, Wings of Defeat, 881 and shorts.

Spotlight on the 26th annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival::




I'm a Cyborg But That's OK dir: Park Chan-Wook starring: Su-jeong Lim, Rain.

Planet B-Boy documentary dir: Benson Lee starring: Skwall, Knucklehead Zoo.

Wings of Defeat documentary dir: Risa Morimoto

881 dir: Royston Tan starring: Ling Ling Liu, Mindee Ong, Yuwu Qi, Choy Wan Teh, May Wan Teh, Yann Yann Yeo.

"Let's Get Out of Here" shorts program:
the Knife - Little Forest dir: Rinee Shah music video
Souvenirs From Asia dir: Joyce Wong Canada | 2007 | 12mins
Smile dir: Julia Kwan Canada | 2007 | 18mins
Graceland dir: Anocha Suwichakornpong Thailand | 2006 | 18mins
Moon Lady dir: Wendy S. Cheng USA/Taiwan | 2007 | 14mins
Giving Care dir: Clarissa De Los Reyes USA | 2007 | 11mins
Triple 8 Palace dir: Alexander Ku USA | 2007 | 30mins


Notes/Corrections:

• Heart of the Game documentary about a girls' high school basketball team in Seattle.
  

SMYT #27: Susanne Bier tribute: Things We Lost in the Fire, After the Wedding, Brothers.

Things We Lost in the Fire dir: Susanne Bier starring: Halle Berry, Benicio del Toro, David Duchovny, Anna Paquin.

After the Wedding dir: Susanne Bier starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Stine Fischer Christensen.

Brothers dir: Susanne Bier starring: Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas.

Notes/Corrections:

• Reel Bad Arabs by Jack Shaheen
  
• the Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• After the Wedding is set in Denmark.
  

SMYT #26: Spotlight: I Could Never Be Your Woman

I Could Never Be Your Woman dir: Amy Heckerling starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Saoirse Ronan, Stacey Dash, Fred Willard, Tracy Ullman, Jon Lovitz, Graham Norton and Henry Winkler.


Notes/Corrections:

• Onion interview with Amy Heckerling
• Support Women Artists Now Day
• Movies by Women podcast #10: "Heckerling's latest goes straight to dvd. Why?"
• Entertainment Weekly: Would You Dump This Woman? by Missy Schwartz
  
• Erin's commentary on EW article at Steady Diet of Film.
  
• Weinstein's exclusive partnership with Blockbuster Video is only in limited areas and explained at Hacking Netflix.
• One Kiss Can Lead to Another girl groups box set.
  
• Vanity Fair: Why Women Aren't Funny? by Christopher Hitchens