The subtitle of Judy Irving’s tender and soulful 2003 documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Kino, Blu-ray, $23.96) could be In Defense of Anthropomorphism. And it’s a pretty darn effective one. Mark Bittner, the doc’s subject, doesn’t see himself as an eccentric for the hobby that became his passion: feeding and caring for the countless feral parrots — nonnative … [Read more...]