Category Archives: www.robinholland.com

Unusual Appetites

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Mark Stern

Paul Bartel (1938-2000), best known as a character actor, was also a director with an incisive (and highly entertaining) take on violence as comedy, sexuality, perversity, race, greed and social-climbing. “The Films of Paul Bartel,” the first retrospective of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

NYFF55: Spotlight on Documentary (A Playwright and a Primatologist)

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Mark Stern

Filmmaker and writer Rebecca Miller’s portrait of her father, “Arthur Miller: Writer,” is concerned with the difference between the great playwright’s public persona and the man she knew and deeply  loved. Her film is warm and honest, dealing with Miller’s life, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

NYFF55: Directors Dialogues

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Mark Stern

This year’s free series of festival directors sitting down for intimate Q&As about their work includes the singular Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, discussing her current feature, “Zama,” which was based on a classic novel, set in the late 18th century. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

-30-

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Mark Stern

The last print issue of the Village Voice, with a startlingly gorgeous ultra-tight crop of Fred McDarrah’s iconic image of Bob Dylan on the cover, rolled off the presses today. The first issue was published, with newsprint and ink, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Friends, History, Journalism, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged , | 7 Comments

Manifest Destiny, Israeli Style

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Mark Stern

In his powerful, exhaustive new documentary, “The Settlers,” writer and director Shimon Dotan traces the 50-year movement, begun by deeply religious Israelis after the Yom Kippur war, to fulfill Biblical prophecy by reclaiming/”redeeming” all of the land they believed was given to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, History, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Mary Tyler Moore 1936-2017

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Mark Stern

Mary Tyler Moore, the pioneering and iconic actress, who “turned the world on with her smile,” died today in Greenwich, CT. She was 80. Moore’s eponymous series (for which she won her three of her six Emmys) was must-see TV in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Photography, Photos, Television, www.robinholland.com | Tagged | Leave a comment

Into the Woods, No Way Out

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Mark Stern

Belgian director Robin Pront’s assured first feature, “The Ardennes,” is thrillingly nasty, dark (both its tone and gorgeous imagery), and darkly funny, a story of a serious, character-defining lack of impulse control, and the limits of brotherly love. Kenny (Kevin … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

“Another Frontier Wit” & “Little Lady”

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Mark Stern

Director Robert Altman’s incomparable, (oft-labeled) revisionist western, “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (1971), begins with a lone horseman arriving at a muddy  frontier town, Presbyterian Church, in a cold rain. A bearded (and very handsome) John McCabe (Warren Beatty), seemingly wrapped in … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Music, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Pierre Étaix 1928-2016

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Mark Stern

Pierre Étaix, the incomparable French comedic actor, director and screenwriter died in Paris on Friday. During Film Forum’s 2012 festival celebrating Étaix, in a post titled “Where have You Been All My Life,” I wrote: Pierre Étaix, director and actor, is … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged | Leave a comment

NYFF54: “The Cinema Is So Many Things at Once”

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Mark Stern

The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 54th New York Film Festival, opening today and running through October 16, includes a main slate of 25 films from North and South America, Europe, Asia and New Zealand, several of which picked up Bears and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Photography, Photos, www.robinholland.com | Tagged | Leave a comment