Monthly Archives: February 2013

Rendez-Vous, Mon Amour

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Mark Stern

I’ve heard that you’ll forever favor the music you liked/discovered in your adolescence, when you first differentiated yourself from your parents and proudly claimed your taste as your own.  Peut-être this is true for film as well and explains why I’m … Continue reading →

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Oldest Living Labrador Retriever (Eats All)

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Mark Stern

Today my big, beautiful, ball-, bone- and biscuit-obsessed black Labrador, Leo is 11.  And while he’s not within drooling distance of the Guinness record, he’s my longest lived Labrador Retriever–large, lovely, laid-back Willie and fast, funny, brilliant Grover died at … Continue reading →

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Reality, Identity, Ambiguity

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Mark Stern

In the films of the great director Abbas Kiarostami, cinematic illusion has always kept company with reality.  His films are real, true yet simultaneously ambiguous and mysterious and the border between characters’ actual and seeming identities is porous. In Kiarostami’s … Continue reading →

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We Rise, We Rise, We Rise

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Mark Stern

One Billion Rising, V-Day, Washington Square Park, NYC, 2/14/13

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V-DAY (Rising)

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Mark Stern

The staggering statistic: one in three women on earth will be physically assaulted in her lifetime.  Today, in more 194 countries, on the 15th anniversary of  V-Day (V for Victory, Valentine and Vagina), women (and men), will participate in One Billion … Continue reading →

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Super Tuscans

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Mark Stern

In their new film, “Caesar Must Die,” the Taviani Brothers join convicts housed in the maximum security section of Rebibbia, the penitentiary on the outskirts of Rome, as they audition for, rehearse and perform Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in the prison theater. … Continue reading →

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