Category Archives: News

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

I recently noticed an interview with Stillman from 2000, by Gerald Peary, which wasn’t included on this site until now. He talks about The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards: “The humor is like the 1920s, The … Continue reading →

Eric Burritt writes to point out there’s an audiobook of Cocktails at Petrossian at Audible.com, read by Whit Stillman. It currently costs US$4.59 and lasts 15 minutes “unabridged”. I’m guessing then that this is a short story, rather than the … Continue reading →

Gawker’s reporter at Time magazine’s party to celebrate the “Time 100 — the Most Influential People in the World” was sharing her table with an unexpected guest: At dinner, we were seated way up in the third tier, at Table … Continue reading →