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‘Metropolitan’ revisited
In an article at EW.com Owen Gleiberman re-watches Metropolitan, to which he gave only a C+ twenty years ago. This time around he’s more positive: What originally tripped me up, I think, is that I took the slightly affected arch … Continue reading
‘Damsels’ may feature Stillman regulars
Jefferson Root pointed us to his write-up of a brief conversation he had with Whit Stillman at the LA Film Festival. Stillman said Damsels in Distress, currently casting, would be shot “more Metropolitan style” (presumably, simpler and lower budget than … Continue reading
New Stillman film shooting this summer
Various websites are reporting that Whit Stillman is currently casting a new movie, due to start shooting later this year. The project is called Damsels in Distress and/or Diorissimo and the storyline from Open Book Casting reads: [The picture] centers … Continue reading
Metropolitan at Sundance
‘Metropolitan’ was selected for the Sundance Collection at UCLA and screened at the film festival, twenty years on.
Continue readingWhere are they now?
What Ed Clements and Isabel Gillies (both from ‘Metropolitan’) are up to, plus another Stillman interview.
Continue readingAnother ‘Disco’ 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 … Continue reading
Bumper ‘Disco’ interviews and reviews
Lots of good interviews and reviews off the back of the Criterion release of the Last Days of Disco DVD.
Continue readingLast Days of Disco to be issued on Criterion
The DVD is due out in August 2009.
Continue readingGood reviews of ‘Disco’ needed
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 … Continue reading