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Interviews with Whit Stillman Collaborators Mark Suozzo & Christopher Tellefsen

Spoiler Alert Radio interviews Stillman collaborators Mark Suozzo and Christopher Tellefson. Film editor Christopher Tellefsen talks about finding a rhythm editing Metropolitan which was made up of mostly dialogue. Composer Mark Suozzo talks about the challenges and advantages of getting … Continue reading

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Spoiler Alert Radio Interviews Whit Stillman’s Editor Andrew Hafitz

Andrew Hafitz, film editor on DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, co-editor of THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO & associate editor of BARCELONA talks about working on the films as well as features by Lodge Kerrigan & Larry Clark. He gives insights on … Continue reading

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Kate Beckinsale 1997 Entertainment Tonight Interview

Kate Beckinsale on the set of The Last Days of Disco is interviewed:

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Carl’s Rock Songbook #70: Social Dancing as a Key to Whit Stillman’s Films

Carl Scott from First Things writes: Whit Stillman fans know that his first three films are a loosely connected trilogy of sorts, with THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO being the film that ties them together by means of our meeting … Continue reading

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An Affectionate Look at the Privilege of the White and the Middle Class: ‘The Last Days of Disco’

Shaun Huston of PopMatters writes this of the Criterion Disco DVD: At this point it is, I think, uncontroversial to note the lack of diversity in American film and television, or to make note of how that lack has resulted … Continue reading

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Movie Man: Whit Stillman’s films full of interesting characters

Here’s what Will Pfeifer from GATEHOUSE NEWS SERVICE has to say about two from Stillman’s triptych.  Both are available for purchase on Criterion blu-ray (Metropolitan & The Last Days of Disco) : Writer/director Whit Stillman released his first film way back … Continue reading

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Kate Beckinsale ET interview from the set of ‘The Last Days of Disco’

Kate Beckinsale is interviewed on the set of The Last Days of Disco and talks about spandex, among other things.

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Blast from the past: Chloe Sevigny on Letterman

Chloe Sevigny goes on Letterman to talk about The Last Days of Disco’s (not the new Blu-ray release), 1998 release.  Old media promotes new media here. Disco is mentioned briefly at the end.

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‘70s and ‘80s provide background for Whit Stillman films

Here’s what Peggy Earle of hamptonroads.com has to say of the release of Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco and Metropolitan on Blu-ray:  CRITERION HAS BROUGHT out two director-approved Blu-rays of Whit Stillman’s independent films. The two films mostly comment … Continue reading

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‘The Last Days of Disco’ on Criterion Blu-ray July 24, 2012

The Last Days of Disco, will be released on Criterion Blu-ray July 24, 2012. The details are available on dvdtalk and it’s available to purchase on amazon.

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