Category Archives: Site updates

City Journal article on three films

Thanks to Rayyan who pointed out a 2004 article in City Journal by Julia Magnet, which discusses Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, and which was missing from our press links.

Brief archive interviews

Here are four more brief interviews with Stillman, again found by Eric Burritt:

Metropolitan

‘Confessions…’ interview by James Ramsay (2002?) ‘Metropolitan Helmer Hails DVD’ by Jessica Wolf at Home Media Magazine (13 Feb 2006)

The Last Days of Disco

‘Fue una época increíble’ interview by Diego Lerer at Clarin.com. Google translation (14 Apr 1999) ‘Los últimos días de Whit Stillman’ interview. […]

More archive articles

Eric Burritt has been rooting around the web again and come up with some more old articles about Stillman and his films. Some of these have appeared as a result of the New York Times opening up its archive for free access.

Metropolitan

‘Rich and Poor in One World of Film’ by Stephen Holden in the New […]

More archive interviews and reviews

Some more digging from Eric Burritt has turned up some old interviews and film reviews. (Some of the EW.com reviews don’t display properly in Firefox.)

Interviews

‘Who He Brouhaha’ about confusion between Stillman and country singer Slim Whitman, by Lois Alter Mark at EW.com (12 Aug 1994) ‘Checking in With … Whit Stillman’ by Gregory Kirschling at EW.com […]

New and old links

First, a brand new article by Stillman at the Wall Street Journal, about director Otto Preminger.

Second, some more articles by Stillman written for the Harvard Crimson between 1970 and 1972, in addition to those already linked to credited to J.W. Stillman.

Third, some interviews with Chris Eigeman that touch on Stillman’s films:

Actor Chris Eigeman interviewed on […]

More from the archives

I assumed we already had links to everything Whit-related but Eric Burritt has turned up a few more things for us, all now added to the appropriate pages on the site. Here’s a summary of what’s new:

Literature-Map graph ‘Behind the Bathroom Door: Twelve March Novels’, book reviews by Stillman in Harper’s, visible to subscribers only (Apr […]

Interviews: video, audio and Ethan Hawke

Eric Burritt has found more goodies for us, two old interviews with Stillman (one video, one audio) and a brand new article in which Stillman interviews Ethan Hawke:

Interview with Elvis Mitchell on US radio station KCRW about The Last Days of Disco, audio available (29 May 1998) Stillman talks on video for the BBC, looking back […]

Bumper link update

Regular contributor Eric Burritt has been scouring the internet for more articles by and about Stillman. I’ve added links to them into the appropriate pages, and here’s a summary of all the new stuff. Thanks for all your hard work Eric!

About Whit Stillman

Film Reference page

Articles by Whit Stillman

List of articles written by Whit Stillman for […]

All three Charlie Rose interviews on Google Video

Ever vigilant reader Eric Burritt points out that you can now watch all three of Whit Stillman’s interviews with Charlie Rose on Google Video. I previously noted that you can buy them on DVD and that the 2000 interview was on Google Video.

So, for completeness, here are links to separate pages for each of the […]

Welcome to the new website!

I’ve been meaning to expand my single page Whit Stillman site into something more substantial and it seemed wise to do it before any prospective new film gets underway. So here we are!

All the contents of the old page have been transferred here - the main, constant content can be accessed via the links on […]