Goings on. San Francisco.

First, to those in the Bay Area: Brian Darr has a huge roundup of upcoming series and events.

For SF360, Michael Fox talks with Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman: "The Oscar-winning duo is moving down the road with Howl, an unflinching drama that revisits Allen Ginsberg's seminal mid-50s poem and subsequent obscenity trial."

Updated through 10/16.

"America may be super-fucked in many ways, but we'll never be short on weirdos, nor will documentary filmmakers ever tire of recording their antics. DocFest's 2008 slate is roughly three-fourths devoted to the United States of Oddballs. And why not? Seriously, it's fascinating stuff." Cheryl Eddy opens the San Francisco Bay Guardian's package on the festival opening Friday and running through November 6. She also talks with the founders about this biggest edition yet.

"Midway through I'm Like This Every Day, friends of underground musician Peter Stubb debate whether or not Stubb is actually a werewolf," notes Erick Lyle. "Such is the unverifiable quality of Stubb's legend."

Earlier: Michael Hawley's DocFest preview for the Evening Class.

Back in the SFBG: "From its explosive opening sequence, in which an Iraqi village endures a surprise attack from insurgents, Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss' documentary Full Battle Rattle could be placed alongside Gunner Palace (2004) or The Ground Truth (2006) as another vérité-style portrait of daily life 'on the ground,'" writes Matt Sussman. "It's when the smoke clears and an ice cream truck pulls up that we realize something's amiss." Screens Friday.

Update, 10/16: "The extreme, the strange, the silly and surreal all have big seats at the SF DocFest table," writes Dennis Harvey in his overview for SF360.

Posted by dwhudson at October 15, 2008 6:38 AM