Last week, while writing in the magazine about the New York première (at Lincoln Center) of the British director Terence Davies's superb new film, "Sunset Song," I added that the meticulous filmmaker, who is now seventy, is picking up the pace of production, having already completed another feature, "A Quiet Passion," a bio-pic about Emily Dickinson, starring Cynthia Nixon.
For a sumptuous and expensive meal and an equally superb view, try the Sunset Grill just below the park or one of the fish restaurants on the Bosporus, like Iskele in Rumeli Hisari, where the specialty is grilled calamari and dinner for two, with wine, is about $100.
This side of the mountain gets sun later in the morning, sunsets are superb and Camps Bay has many restaurants and bars for sundowners and dinner.
South of Gaia, the fishing villages are salty and sweary; on the Porto side of the river, Foz do Douro is a posh suburb where the river meets the ocean and, further north, Matosinhos offers rock-cut swimming pools, sunsets and superb fish dinners.
He's starring as comedy writer Matt Albie in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the superb TV show about a TV show which, absurdly, lost its primetime slot in the US.
Newly built with traditional building techniques and materials, this large three-bedroom villa (sleeping six) has a covered dining terrace and infinity pool from which to take in superb sea views and west-coast sunsets.
OUR PICKS: 7 superb beers Microbrews only account for about 9% of U.S. beer sales, Sunset magazine noted in the October 2012 issue.
But the trout that day was superb, and you can sit, as I did, for a stellar view of the lake at sunset, reeds rustling in the wind.
