Updated whenever I hear new information about Whit Stillman and his projects.
‘Metropolitan’ was selected for the Sundance Collection at UCLA and screened at the film festival, twenty years on.
What Ed Clements and Isabel Gillies (both from ‘Metropolitan’) are up to, plus another Stillman interview.
There’s another interview with Whit Stillman over at Flavorwire, off the back of the Last Days of Disco Criterion DVD. Some good questions, and well worth a read:
Maybe it’s not deserved, but as a director I feel that I’ve lost out on paying industry jobs by being inextricably linked to this screenwriter who’s [...]
Lots of good interviews and reviews off the back of the Criterion release of the Last Days of Disco DVD.
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 [...]