Q&A with Producer/Writer Jason Reid and EP/Writer/Archival Researcher Bob Fink (Wed) with addition of Director/Producer/Writer Robinson Devor (Sat) to follow the screenings of Suburban Fury
Wednesday, October 23 at 2:30 PM at the Film Society Bourse
Saturday, October 26 at 12:15 PM at the Film Society Bourse
ROBINSON DEVOR | USA | 2024 | 118 MIN | ENGLISH
In 1975, 45-year-old Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford on a busy sidewalk in downtown San Francisco. In this fascinating documentary, filmmaker Robinson Devor (Zoo) gives Moore—home after a 30-year prison sentence but more combative than ever—the opportunity to tell her own story. Moore stipulated that the film could feature no other interviewees, and Devor leans into this subjective perspective to create an unconventional portrait in which fact and fiction are difficult to parse. From her involvement in the Patty Hearst kidnapping, to her alleged work as an informant for the FBI, to the failed assassination attempt, Moore’s story offers an unconventional cultural history of San Francisco’s radical politics of the 1960s and ’70s. In turn, Devor imbues the film with the tense, nervy atmosphere of a thriller, conducting interviews in evocative locations and immersing us in the tangled web of the world Moore lives in.
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