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 comments how you find the experience.

This event has prompted IFC.com to do a brand new interview with Stillman. He talks about the projects he has at various stages of development such as Little Green Men and the Jamaican movie currently called Dancing Mood, past projects such as Red Azalea, and his occasional writing.

Spout Blog also has a new interview with Stillman in which he talks again about his current projects, about the difficulties of releasing independent films, and says there might be a Criterion release of The Last Days of Disco before too long.

Finally, Eric Burrit sends in a few old goodies:

• A brief clip from CNN in 1994 on the release of Barcelona — some clips and brief snippets of interview with Stillman, Eigeman and Sorvino.
• An interview with Chris Tellefsen, editor of Metropolitan, from MovieMaker magazine in 2007.
• A 1994 review of Barcelona, also from MovieMaker magazine.
• An article about film school, again from MovieMaker, apparently including Whit Stillman, although the page isn’t currently loading for me.

1. The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz (1988)
2. The Parade’s Gone By… by Kevin Brownlow (1968)
3. When the Shooting Stops … the Cutting Begins by Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen (1979)
4. Between Flops by James Curtis (1982)
5. Hitchcock by François Truffaut (1967)

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. Google translation (Date unknown)

Metropolitan

• ‘Rich and Poor in One World of Film’ by Stephen Holden in the New York Times (16 Mar 1990)
• ‘The Dance Is Over, but the Whirl Goes On’ by Vincent Canby in the New York Times (23 Mar 1990)
• ‘With Movies Like These, One Never Knows (page 3)’ by Vincent Canby in the New York Times (1 Apr 1990)
• ‘Metropolitan Chronicles Preppy Angst’ by Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times (29 Jul 1990)
• ‘Even WASP’s are Allowed to Have Feelings’ by Richard Brookhiser in the New York Times (20 Jan 1991)

Barcelona

• Official trailer at the New York Times
• ‘On to Barcelona‘ by Lawrence van Gelder in the New York Times (23 Nov 1990)
• ‘His New Movie is Finished (Really)’ by Peter Brunette in the New York Times (24 Jul 1994)

The Last Days of Disco

• ‘Disco Nights of Studio 54′ by Bernard Weinraub in the New York Times (8 May 1998)

Books

Last Days of Disco with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards

• Interview by Ron Hogan at Beatrice (2000)
• Review by Laura Miller at Salon.com (28 Aug 2000)
• Chat transcript at CNN.com (29 Aug 2000)

Doomed Bourgeois in Love

• ‘Austen’s Cinematic Admirer by Elsa A. Solender in JASNA News v.19, no.1, p.17 (Spring 2003)

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 (17 Feb 2006)
• ‘Whit Stillman Talks Film’ by Bridget Romano for The Elm (5 May 2006)
• ‘Film-makers on Film: Whit Stillman’ in which he talks of his love of musicals, particularly The Gay Divorcee. By Benjamin Secher in the Daily Telegraph (10 Jun 2006)

Metropolitan

• ‘Metropolitan’ by Owen Gleiberman at EW.com (24 Aug 1990)
• ‘Metropolitan’ by Lawrence O’Toole at EW.com (21 Jun 1991)
• ‘Metropolitan’ by Michelle Kung at EW.com (10 Feb 2006)

Barcelona

• ‘Reign in Spain’ by Lisa Schwarzbaum at EW.com (12 Aug 1994)

The Last Days of Disco

• ‘A Fight for the Rights to… Disco’ on the music used in the film, by Chris Willman at EW.com (22 May 1998)
• ‘The Last Days of Disco’ by Lisa Schwarzbaum at EW.com (29 May 1998)

“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 Jeremy Thomas (”The Last Emperor”) is backing Stillman, who hasn’t directed a movie in eight years. “It’s an all-black cast. I’m thinking of Danny Glover and J.J. Walker for parts,” he said.

The Philadelphia Daily News’ ‘Tattle’ column, a few days earlier, used a different quote from the same event, with Stillman talking to the same reporter:

“A screenplay I am working on,” said Stillman, “is a college-girl comedy inspired by the Kate Beckinsale character in Last Days of Disco. That character is the leader of a pack in a fictional college in Pennsylvania, a Susquehanna kind of area, not exactly Philadelphia. It will be squeaky-clean. PG-13. She is a gossip fanatic who reads the columns.

“She has a crisis and becomes very depressed, maybe one of her coterie becomes pregnant. Keep the baby is my motto. She is obsessed with the Tattle column, she is a regular reader of the Daily News and she ends up feeding important items to the Tattle column about the university president.”

As an added bonus, here’s an interview from the New York Observer with Stillman favourite, actor turned writer/director, Chris Eigeman.

Thanks to “Jeff” (in the comments of my previous post) and Heather Haebe for the tips.

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 video at FilmCatcher. Two clips on the Metropolitan page (click the links under ‘MEDIA’ on the left) and more on this interview page (date unknown)
• Chris Eigeman interviewed by Andrew Ellard at RedDwarf.co.uk about making the Red Dwarf TV show after Metropolitan (date unknown)
• Boxtop chat transcript with actor Chris Eigeman which briefly mentions ‘Last Days of Disco’ (1998-06-03)
• Fresh Air interview with actor Chris Eigeman on NPR. Audio available for US$2.95 at Audible. (8 July 2000)

• Literature-Map graph
• ‘Behind the Bathroom Door: Twelve March Novels’, book reviews by Stillman in Harper’s, visible to subscribers only (Apr 1981)
• Stillman reading from chapter eight of The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards (scroll down to his name for the RealAudio link)
• ‘Has His Whits About Him’, interview by Paul Morton at the Columbia Spectator (18 Sep 2000)
• ‘Class Clown: Considering Whit Stillman’, review of Doomed Bourgeois in Love by Terry Teachout at the National Review (9 Feb 2001)
• ‘Cócteles y caviar’ review of the book The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards by M. García at Evas!ón in Spanish (Google’s English translation) (19 Oct 2001)
• ‘Stillman Directs Week’s Best Books’, Stillman “offers his favourite books for ’slow reading’” at Publisher’s Weekly, as originally published in the Week magazine (28 May 2004)

• 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 at Metropolitan and how he’d like to go back to that style of film-making (18 May 2006)
• ‘Ethan Hawke’, an interview by Stillman with the actor at BlackBook (20 Aug 2007)