Tag Archives: The Last Days of Disco

Another ‘Disco’ interview

There’s another interview with Whit Stillman over at Flavorwire, off the back of the Last Days of Disco Criterion DVD. Some good questions, and well worth a read:

Maybe it’s not deserved, but as a director I feel that I’ve lost out on paying industry jobs by being inextricably linked to this screenwriter who’s [...]

Bumper ‘Disco’ interviews and reviews

Lots of good interviews and reviews off the back of the Criterion release of the Last Days of Disco DVD.

Last Days of Disco to be issued on Criterion

The DVD is due out in August 2009.

Good reviews of ‘Disco’ needed

On a (seemingly random) previous post, “zelda” points out that The Last Days of Disco on Hulu.com is currently suffering from several very poor, very brief, reviews. Look back a page or two under the ‘Reviews’ tab to see them in their dismal one- and two-star glory.

But what’s the point of having a site about [...]

Virtuous fun and romance

A couple of new things for you…

First, Rebecca Tirrell Talbot has written an article on Metropolitan and Barcelona at The Curator, ‘Virtuous Fun in the Films of Whit Stillman’:

I’ll tell you candidly — I love dark, cynical, yes, even nihilistic films. The macabre side of human experience is fascinating, and there has been [...]

More ‘Last Days of Disco’ articles

Eric Burritt has been digging around in the depths of the internet and come up with a few more articles on The Last Days of Disco for us:

‘The Last Days of Disco: Interview with Whit Stillman’ by Prairie Miller for Cinema Syndicate (1998) ‘Whit Stillman goes retro in ‘Last Days’ by Michael Okwu at CNN (28 [...]

‘Metropolitan’ free online, two interviews and more

A bumper crop of Whit Stillman today.

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 [...]