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Articles on Whit Stillman’s ‘The Cosmopolitans’

Here are some excellent new articles on Whit Stillman’s Amazon show The Cosmopolitans.

 

Public Transportation Snob

The Cosmopolitans hits on familiar themes that should charm Stillman fans. There’s even a callback to the Sambola, which Greta Gerwig’s Violet was so determined to make an international dance craze in Damsels in Distress.

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Den of Geek!

Yet, the real gem is Carrie MacLemore as she dissects everything she sees with a precise, inscrutable nature mixed with naivety. It’s always fascinating to just watch what her face is doing. The pilot is witty, insightful, biting, and arguably has the most to say out of any of the current Amazon offerings. The dialogue just flows, making The Cosmopolitans a comfort to be around.

 The Village Voice

As with his features, Stillman lets his characters indulge in ultra-white-people problems while gently chuckling at them for it.

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 The Epitome of Quiet

Screen caps from the show.

Adam Brody: “Jimmy” From Whit Stillman’s ‘The Cosmopolitans’

Adam Brody is no stranger to Whit Stillman’s world, as he was the leading male in Damsels in Distress.  Brody of course is also no rookie to television and has been in numerous films.  In the Amazon pilot, Brody plays the optimistic American Jimmy, who confuses Vancouver women for Parisians and hates getting thrown out of a good party (who doesn’t, on the former at least).

Adam Brody

Imdb bio:

Adam Jared Brody was born and raised in San Diego, California, the son of Valerie (Siefman), a graphic artist, and Mark Brody, a lawyer. His parents, both originally from Michigan, are both from Jewish families (from Russia and Poland). Adam spent a lot of his teen years hanging out with his friends, having fun and surfing. Upon graduation, he convinced his parents to allow him to attend college in Los Angeles. However, instead of enrolling in school, he hired an acting coach, signed with a personal manager and soon landed the lead in the NBC movie-of-the-week, Growing Up Brady (2000), playing Barry Williams (Greg Brady). Soon after, Brody was cast as the lead in the MTV cult series Now What? His television credits also include a recurring role as Coop in ABC’s Once and Again (1999); a recurring role as Dave in the WB’s Emmy-nominated Gilmore Girls (2000); and standout guest starring roles in Judging Amy (1999), Family Law (1999) and Smallville (2001). Brody also starred in the Fox television series The O.C. (2003), playing the son of Peter Gallagher‘s character.

In addition to starring in the skateboarding movie Grind (2003), Brody’s feature film credits include a very small role in the 2002 hit thriller The Ring (2002) and a lead role as Patrick in Missing Brendan (2003), opposite Edward Asner and Illeana Douglas.

Adam Brody The Cosmopolitans by Whit Stillman

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Links for ‘The Cosmopolitans’: Watch, Listen, Read & Vote

Here are some useful links to Whit Stillman’s new amazon pilot The Cosmopolitans.  With these links you can watch, listen, read and give feedback (so the show gets picked up) about The Cosmopolitans.

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Collider Interview with Whit Stillman

Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub at Collider interviews Whit Stillman about his new show, the outlook on the possibility of a Barcelona Blu-ray and the status of his Jane Austen film titled, Love and Friendship.

The Cosmopolitans

Then they get comedy executives Joe Lewis and Sara Babineau and they are talking to me about doing a series or something and they have the idea that they want to something in Paris and they called me.  They called me last summer in July.  They wanted to do something in Paris.  I think they had some property they were thinking of buying or optioning and having me rewrite it and I said, “I have so many stories in Paris.”  I’ve forever been pitching these stories in the states and they’d say they’d never do something abroad, I have to change all the characters to be in New York.  So I was doing all these Paris stories in New York – not all of them, but I’d had one.

I read a previous interview with you and you said that you envision this as six episodes if it goes.

STILLMAN: I thought it was going to be more, I thought they were going to want to see ten episodes – this pilot, plus nine.  I’m not sure if it’s just for planning the series bible, or if they want know six episodes ahead, or if it’s only a six episode order.  I think it might just be  a six episode order, which would be ideal because I could potentially write the whole thing and fine tune it.  So I kind of like the idea of six episodes.  It’s like a very long film in chapters.

So you definitely landed financing or is it still being figured out?

STILLMAN: I’m trying to get a little more money and I have a lot of friend types that have always said they know people that want to put money into one of my films and they’re now talking to those people.  So I’ll see if those people come in or if we get a little bit more money from someone else.  We have enough to shoot it, but I’d like to scale up a little bit and not scale back.  We’re doing it really  economically already.  I think it’s an incredibly good deal for investors, because we’re going to do a really good Jane Austen period film for very little money and it will look beautiful because the locations are beautiful, the actresses are beautiful, and digital cameras are beautiful [laughs].