Monthly Archives: March 2011

Summer Pictures (Some Are Not)

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Mark Stern

Lingering memories of insignificant moments, things, views, have always intrigued me–a lunch of meatballs, outside on the grass, at summer camp when I was 12, sitting with the “wrong” boy; the houses beyond my Aunt Harriet’s swimming pool and terraced backyard in the … Continue reading →

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New York Catches Up With Locarno, Vienna, Toronto, etc.

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Mark Stern

Included in this year’s New Directors/New Films and showing twice this weekend, Denis Côté’s latest feature, CURLING, is his first to play at a major New York festival.  New York has  been inexplicably slow to show the work of the prolific … Continue reading →

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George Washington’s Step Great Grandson-in-Law Slept Here

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Mark Stern

Martha Washington had a first husband.  At 19 she married a wealthy, significantly older planter, Daniel Parke Custis, and lived with him at White House Plantation in Virginia until his death in 1757.  Two years later, Martha, 27, married George, … Continue reading →

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I’m Standing with the Union

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Mark Stern

Amid shouts  of “Shame” from outraged protesters jamming in and around the state house in Madison, WI, yesterday, the assembly passed a bill undoing 50 years of union rights. And although it’s an immediate policy disaster, politically it’s a gift … Continue reading →

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“Public Speaking” (“Speak!”)

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Mark Stern

Through March 10, Film Forum is playing “Public Speaking,” Martin Scorsese’s portrait of cultural critic and woman about town, Fran Lebowitz, without whom, New Yorkers (and non-New Yorkers) would understand much less about the City, politics, art, gender, etc. And … Continue reading →

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