On last week’s episode of Doc Talk, Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald joined the podcast at SFFILM to discuss his latest film One to One: John & Yoko. The film captures John and Yoko’s relationship in an interesting light, as well as protests over the Vietnam War, political conflict over the emerging women’s rights and gay rights movements, and a sense that the feeling of endless possibility unleashed in the 1960s was quickly dissipating.
Director Robinson Devor and producer Jason Reid also joined the show to discuss their documentary set in the turbulent early ‘70s, Suburban Fury. The central figure in the film is Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford in San Francisco in 1975. How did she go from an apparently “ordinary” suburban woman with Republican leanings to FBI informant, tangled up in the effort to track down kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst? The answers help untangle an entire era fraught with anxiety, desperation, and a paradoxically “idealistic” sense that a bullet, properly aimed, could change history.
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