Monthly Archives: October 2014

Yellow (Stillwater Diary)

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Mark Stern

I’m not adverse to changing leaves, their colors are beautiful, the light through them is luminous, but as they’re shed they redefine the skyline, as it slips from green to yellow to bare, dark sticks. The infinite blue sky of fall as backdrop … Continue reading →

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L.M. Kit Carson 1941–2014

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Mark Stern

Hunter’s sneakers and sweatshirt were crimson, Kit’s scarf, a more subdued shade of red, but his slicker was blazing yellow.  We were in Houston, preparing to shoot the scenes in Wim Wenders’ “Paris, Texas” of Jane (Nastassja Kinski) arriving at and … Continue reading →

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jerk

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Mark Stern

Philip Lewis Friedman (Jason Schwartzman), an ascendant young novelist, is a furious collection of bad traits.  The protagonist of writer and director Alex Ross Perry’s third feature, the very funny “Listen Up Philip,” is dismissive toward (and jealous of) his photographer girlfriend, Ashley Kane (Elizabeth … Continue reading →

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Is Paris Exploding?

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Mark Stern

Before dawn in Paris on August 25, 1944, a German aristocrat, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup), prepares to execute an order from Hitler (enraged  by the destruction of Berlin), to replace beauty with rubble in the City of Light, to greet the advancing Allied … Continue reading →

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Barks and Recreation

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Mark Stern

Our sweet Ryder is a noisy dog, the barkiest of our four Labradors, particularly vocal when we’re in the country.  If he sniffs something, he says something. Ryder likes to swim, sleep and of course retrieve–sticks, his orange plastic dummy and balls, pretty much … Continue reading →

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NYFF52: The Films that Bookend the Career of a Master

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Mark Stern

Before the NYFF52 press screening of “Hiroshima Mon Amour” I turned to tell Nora Lee who always sits behind me for the unobstructed view of the screen–I slouch (“in the sports car like in the cinema,” as a Godard heroine said)–that … Continue reading →

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NYFF52: Special Events (A Semi-Sequel)

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Mark Stern

“Hope and Glory,” John Boorman’s most personal film, a revisiting of his childhood in World War II London during the blitz, had its U.S. premiere at the  New York Film Festival in 1987.  His latest (and reportedly his last), “Queen and Country,” Film … Continue reading →

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