Updated whenever I hear new information about Whit Stillman and his projects.
The DVD is due out in August 2009.
On a (seemingly random) previous post, “zelda” points out that The Last Days of Disco on Hulu.com is currently suffering from several very poor, very brief, reviews. Look back a page or two under the ‘Reviews’ tab to see them in their dismal one- and two-star glory.
But what’s the point of having a site about [...]
A couple of new things for you…
First, Rebecca Tirrell Talbot has written an article on Metropolitan and Barcelona at The Curator, ‘Virtuous Fun in the Films of Whit Stillman’:
I’ll tell you candidly — I love dark, cynical, yes, even nihilistic films. The macabre side of human experience is fascinating, and there has been [...]
The website for Ralph Lauren’s Rugby brand has a page listing five rules for how to make the most of a tuxedo, inspired by Stillman’s Metropolitan and illustrated with stills of Christopher Eigeman looking dapper.
Luxist has a post discussing the rules, including some comments from Stillman:
“When we were preparing Metropolitan there was a [...]
A bit late to this one but in a comment J. Kearney points to an article Stillman wrote about how he didn’t quite get to make a film with the late Paul Newman.
Movie stars of Paul Newman’s stature carry with them not just the actual films they have accomplished but the dreams of [...]
A bumper crop of Whit Stillman today.
The biggest news is that Stillman has released Metropolitan for free viewing online. Unfortunately this only works for those in the United States, but you lucky people can view the movie in full, for free, at Hulu.com. I’m in the UK so if you watch post in the [...]
A week ago the Wall Street Journal featured an article by Whit Stillman in which he lists five “essential books about Hollywood”. He writes more about them there, but for future reference the books are:
The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz (1988) The Parade’s Gone By… by Kevin Brownlow (1968) When the Shooting Stops … the [...]
Stillman was quoted on the New York Post’s ‘Page Six’ yesterday:
“I’m doing a film set in Jamaica in the early ’60s about the gospel church and the music scene from pre-reggae days, including ska,” Whitman told Webster Hall’s Baird Jones at the party for “Grace Is Gone” at Osteria Del Circo. British producer [...]
The New York Post reported this week that Dylan Hundley, who played Sally Fowler in Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco, is producing a low-budget film:
Hundley is in town shooting BuzzKill, which she describes as “a cool little comedy road film.” The low-budget indie is about a struggling writer, played by Daniel [...]
Yesterday Keith Smith asked if anyone knew of a Wall Street Journal article Whit Stillman wrote a few years back. Eric Burritt has tracked down three articles written by Stillman for the paper:
‘Suffering Sundays’ (12 Mar 1999) ‘Book Tour Confidential’ (29 Sep 2000) ‘The Fortunes of Fantasyland’ (3 Nov 2006)
The middle one is unfortunately behind the Journal’s [...]