For more articles specific to individual films, see the films’ pages.
Articles by Whit Stillman
- Articles for the Harvard Crimson between 1970 and 1972, one list credited to J.W. Stillman, another to Whit Stillman.
- ‘Behind the Bathroom Door: Twelve March Novels’, book reviews in Harper’s, visible to subscribers only (Apr 1981)
- ‘Who He Brouhaha’ about confusion between Stillman and country singer Slim Whitman, by Lois Alter Mark at EW.com (12 Aug 1994)
- Week long diary for Slate (9 Jun 1998)
- ‘Suffering Sundays’ in the Wall Street Journal (12 Mar 1999)
- ‘Inside Move: Stillman reports on preem’ by Dan Cox atVariety (11 Aug 2000)
- ‘Book Tour Confidential’ in the Wall Street Journal, but you must pay to read this one. (29 Sep 2000)
- The Directors. Stillman was apparently the subject of this TV show but no further information is available (1 Dec 2000)
- He “picks five essential books for the Bass Weejuns set.” (22 Dec 2000)
- ‘A Laboratory of Taste’ by Arthur Lubow originally in the New York Times (mostly about Spanish food rather than Stillman) (10 Aug 2003)
- ‘Glory Days of Cannes’ in the New York Post (16 May 2004)
- ‘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)
- ‘Serial Scribe’ in the New York Post (26 Dec 2004)
- ‘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)
- ‘Confessions of a serial drifter’ in the Guardian (12 May 2006)
- ‘My Cannes: Whit Stillman, director’ in the Guardian (24 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)
- ‘The Fortunes of Fantasyland’ in the Wall Street Journal (3 Nov 2006)
- ‘Ethan Hawke’, an interview with the actor at BlackBook (20 Aug 2007)
- ‘Deep Focus’ about the director Otto Preminger in the Wall Street Journal (20 Oct 2007)
- ‘Five Best’ on five “essential books about Hollywood” in the Wall Street Journal (31 May 2008)
- ‘Nelly & Senator Newman’ on not quite making a film with Paul Newman on Forbes.com (29 Sep 2008)
Interviews with Whit Stillman
- ‘Whit Stillman’ by Betsy Sussler in BOMB magazine. (Winter 1991)
- Interview with Charlie Rose in which Stillman “talks about his new film Barcelona” (29 Jul 1994)
- ‘Filmmaker Focus: Whit Stillman’ by Douglas Cooper at the Sundance Channel (1996)
- ‘The Last Days of Disco: Interview with Whit Stillman’ by Prairie Miller for Cinema Syndicate (1998)
- ‘The Soul of Whit Stillman’ by Hara Estroff Marano at Psychology Today (May/Jun 1998)
- ‘Whit Stillman on The Last Days of Disco‘ by Jeffrey M. Anderson at Combustible Celluloid (19 May 1998)
- ‘Celebrated Whit’ by Laura Miller at Salon.com (28 May 1998)
- Interview with Elvis Mitchell on US radio station KCRW about The Last Days of Disco, audio available (29 May 1998)
- ‘Play That Funky Music Whit Boy!: “The Last Days of Disco’s” Stillman’ by Tom Cunha at IndieWire (1 Jun 1998)
- Interview with Charlie Rose in which “Stillman discusses his new acclaimed movie The Last Days of Disco and the pros and cons of independent film-making” (8 Jun 1998)
- Onion AV Club interview about The Last Days of Disco by Keith Phipps (10 Jun 1998)
- ‘Whit Stillman does Disco thing’ by Ingrid Randoja at NOW (11 Jun 1998)
- Director: Wilt (sic) Stillman by Nick Leshi originally for Video Street Date Magazine (1999)
- Fresh Air interview on NPR, audio available from rebroadcast on 27 Sep 2000. (11 Jun 1998)
- Boxtop chat transcript (16 Jul 1998)
- @sk Hollywood interview with RealAudio
- ‘Young Fogies’ an edition of Talk of the Nation, a discussion on NPR featuring Stillman. (8 Aug 2000)
- ‘Has His Whits About Him’ by Paul Morton at the Columbia Spectator (18 Sep 2000)
- Interview with Charlie Rose in which Stillman “talks about living in Paris and about his new novel, The Last Days of Disco with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards” (27 Sep 2000)
- ‘Whit’s World’ by Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review (21 Oct 2000)
- Spanish interview by Atala Martin at Terra (Google’s English translation) (2002?)
- ‘Snobbery’ an edition of Talk of the Nation, a discussion on NPR featuring Stillman. (27 Jun 2002)
- ‘Down and Out on Park Ave’ by Anthony Kaufman at FilmMaker magazine (Winter 2006)
- ‘The Greatest Conversation Ever… with Whit Stillman’ by Josh Horowitz at Better Than Fudge (21 Feb 2006)
- ‘Whit Stillman’ by Noel Murray at A.V. Club (28 Feb 2006)
- ‘Urbane Whit: Stillman on life beyond the preppie world’ by Kevin Jackson in the Independent (21 May 2006)
- ‘Whit Stillman on Metropolitan‘ by Stephen Saito at IFC.com (13 Aug 2008)
- ‘Anti-Populism and Indie Antiquity’ by Karina Longworth at Spout Blog (13 Aug 2008)
- ‘Director Whit Stillman on The Last Days of Disco‘ an interview with Joshua Rothkof at Time Out New York (20 Aug 2009)
- ‘History is Made at Night – An Interview with Filmmaker Whit Stillman’ an interview with David Zahl at the Mockingbird Blog (21 Aug 2009)
- ‘Whit Stillman Speaks Eleven Years After His Last Film’ an interview with Nick Pinkerton at Village Voice (full transcript here) (25 Aug 2009)
- ‘Whit Stillman, Filmmaker’ an interview with Hugh Merwin at Gothamist (26 Aug 2009)
- ‘UHB at the Disco: The Films of Whit Stillman’ (Starts playing immediately.) Radio interview on the launch of the Criterion DVD of The Last Days of Disco (27 Aug 2009)
- ‘The Last Days of Disco on DVD’ an interview on video with Leonard Lopate for WNYC (26 Aug 2009)
- ‘Exclusive Q&A: Filmmaker Whit Stillman’ an interview with Adam Wilson at Flavorwire (17 Sep 2009)
General articles about Whit Stillman and his films
- ‘Whit Stillman’s Theory of Group Dynamics’ by Laura Winters at The New York Times (24 May 1998)
- ‘The Whit Stillman Rat Pack’ by Monique P. Yazigi at The New York Times (31 May 1998)
- Slagging off of Hal Hartley and Whit Stillman at Suck.com (22 Oct 1998)
- The Spring 2000 edition of the Intercollegiate Review is mostly devoted to Whit Stillman, with five essays and an introduction. (Spring 2000)
- ‘Whit Stillman, Gossip Synergist’ by Ian Blecher (scroll down) at The New York Observer (11 Sep 2000)
- ‘Doomed. Bourgeois. In Love with Whit Stillman’ by Pollyanna Rhee
- Vol. 54 of the Mars Hill Audio Journal features an interview with Mark Henrie on “Whit Stillman’s approach to comedy”. There’s a complete MP3 linked to on this page. (Jan/Feb 2002)
- ‘A Great Conservative Filmmaker’ by Julia Magnet at City Journal (Winter 2004)
- “Where Are They Now?” by Marc Graser in Fade In, vol. 8, no. 2. (9 Jan 2005)
- ‘The Kids Stay In The Picture’ by Nathan Kosub at Stop Smiling (24 Aug 2005)
- ‘Stillman seeing “Green”‘ by Ian Mohr at Variety (25 May 2005)
- ‘Virtuous Fun in the Films of Whit Stillman’ by Rebecca Tirrell Talbot at The Curator (23 Jan 2009)
- ‘Whit Stillman and the job of art’ by Daniel Crandall at Examiner.com (28 Aug 2009)