#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.

Notes/Corrections:

• See also: Erin's Birthday episode.

#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.