a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Rarely do I want to see a movie twice but when I keep thinking about a movie the day after seeing it and want to watch it again, I know I have found a special film. This movie worked on me in so many ways. At first I didn't even like the main (human) character. I thought he was a lazy bum. But as I watched him I grew jealous of him. He lives his own life and he does good things for others. How many people can say that! On top of the main character, the film moves at a good pace and the story is very entertaining. The plot captures you and the other actors (the parrots) are so good at showing their personalities. The music is excellent. I won't say much more because I do not want to spoil the story but this film is great for anyone, adults or children. And if you love birds, then you must watch this film but make sure you have a hankie available. One of the best films I have ever seen. BTW, I saw it by downloading it from Netflix.

I admit it: it is pretentious in the extreme to attach the possessive "my" to America's greatest city but I do feel much justification in doing so because this film is more than an examination of a man who loves and cares for wild parrots. I lived in a bedsitter on Nob Hill but spent most of my time haunting the area where the film was made: that marvelous blocks of North Beach and Upper Grant. The area of Molinari's deli, Cafe' Trieste, Vesuvio Bar, City Lights Bookstore and Tosca Cafe' across the street. I wrote love letters to my future wife from the corner table photographed in Cafe' Trieste.Of course this wonderful movie was far more than a travel log through which I could recapture a magical year in my life; it was a movie about a fascinating man who reached out and embraced a seemingly innocuous event, an event that would transform his life.All of us encounter these potentially life altering events but how many of us allow ourselves to be swept along by them and thus allow fate to ennoble us as it did on Telegraph Hill.

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is the best DVD I have purchased so far! A generous bohemian named Mark Bittner befriends and offers sunflower seeds to a flock of Wild Parrots. Many of the parrots become tamer and respond to his generosity and to the care he provides when they become ill. At those times he nurses them back to health in his small home in San Francisco.The DVD docudrama has moments of joy, comedy and wonder. There are also times of sadness. In general it embraces the lives of a flock of wild cherry-headed conures where the stars are the flock of parrots and those who care about them.

I just finished re-watching the DVD of this film, and I am moving it from an 8 to a 9, and not sure why I am not giving it a 10. Really well-crafted. A great story. It has everything really. Originality. Human interest. Compelling characters. Life lessons and lots to say about the human condition and man and nature. Romance. Literature. Pulls you completely in and gives you a different perspective on the world in general. Very sweet and gentle without being sachrine in any respect. Wonderful Zen quote that was dead on for the purpose. San Francisco is all its glory. Music and literature. History. Beats and hippies. Lots of interesting stuff on parrots and other birds. Sort of a MOby Dick in that way. Melville, when he was writing about whaling, was not always really talking about the nuts and bolts of whaling, and this movie is not always talking about the nuts and bolts of birds. The DVD features are excellent.A must see independent film. Makes one feel like there must be fantastic stories out there waiting to be told by wonderful undiscovered filmmakers. Have to emphasize that this film has a very nice touch. It is quite sentimental in many ways, but it never seems overly so when you are watching it. Also, the description of the hero of the film as a "homeless musician," does not give a very clear picture. Mark Bittner has a very nice home on Telegraph Hill, although his is living rent free thanks to the generosity of the owners of the cottage he lives is for most of the film. He is a well-read, intelligent, introspective guy, with a lot of sophisticated things to say. Referring to him as a "homeless musician" seems to me to give an odd impression.