all whit, no wit
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 19 September 2014 05:43 (nine years ago) link
TBF I enjoyed Metropolitan (which is what I watched) but on the whole it was like a John Hughes movie with less humor and slapstick
― 龜, Friday, 19 September 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
whoa
― imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
anyway this episode is basically redolent of john irving losing it at the rich being discriminated against. good artists can say dumb things when fighting perceived inverse discrimination
― imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 11:48 (nine years ago) link
anyone who's ever paid attention to his movies can not possibly be surprised by this
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 19 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
his movies, tbf, while set in bourgie milieux, are more imo about universals of fellowship & empathy, and espouse what is often a subversively surreal methodology
― imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
this is coming from someone with a hair-trigger response to unexamined bourgie presumptuousness
― imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
for reasons of lamentable overexposure obv before u all start zinging
*doesn't comment*
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 19 September 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Amazon orders scripts, not episodes for Cosmopolitans
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 06:32 (nine years ago) link
I've made it deeper into Cosmopolitans than I did Metropolitan, but I think that might just be that I like Chloe Sevigny and the guy from the OC. Still kind of awful.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 10 October 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
Just saw Taylor Nichols on an ep of Newsradio playing the representative from Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 October 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
adapting Jane Austen’s Lady Susan as Love and Friendship, with Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny:
“Beckinsale will portray the widow Lady Susan Vernon, who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. She decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter. The cast includes Xavier Samuel and Stephen Fry, the long-suffering husband to Lady Susan’s friend and confidante, portrayed by Sevigny. Filming begins in Ireland this month.”
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/kate-beckinsale-chloe-sevigny-reunite-in-love-and-friendship-1201421435/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 February 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
zzzzzzz
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
WELL!
Stillman doing a Jane Austen... next thing Tarantino will be doing a snuff film and Chris Nolan a 3D IMAX adap of the phone book.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
yeah, white on white, so to speak.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Perhaps he should have challenged himself by adapting and filming criticism of Jane Austen instead.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/WhitStillman/status/649332929194233858
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 October 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/films/28691-barcelona
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MaSK3POHI0
get hype motherfuckers
― adam, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
beckinsale 4ever
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
The Last Days of Disco prequel we always wanted.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
I don't see Chris Eigemann in there anywhere. I don't know about this.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
stephen fry :(
― conrad, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
Stilton doing an Austen riff in period-appropriate drag feels a bit too on the nose to me, as his films were already covert Austen adaptations.
This does remind me, though, that I still need to see Damsels in Distress.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:22 (eight years ago) link
*Stillman
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:23 (eight years ago) link
stillman's really scraping the bottom of the austen barrel here.
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someone on ILX once expressed a postulate that as the movies she was in got more and more lowbrow, kate beckinsale got hotter and hotter. wonder how this film reflects that.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link
someone should re-score that trailer to li'l jon
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:49 (eight years ago) link
Love & Friendship was really wonderful!
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
A Thread for Whit Stillman's "Love & Friendship"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link
I finally saw DAMSELS IN DISTRESS.
Naturally it is quite good, maybe it's even very good compared to other films? - but I couldn't really it was that good compared to other WS films, which is a high standard.
It was possibly a bit too light for its own good. Or are they all pretty much equally light?
The incidental music seemed too intrusive and repetitive. The whole film seemed somewhat cheap. But then METROPOLITAN looks cheap, at least once you've watched the director's commentary, and is one of my favourite films of all.
I think if I had seen it in a cinema full of WS fans (which I didn't), it would have made me laugh along with them.
The above are probably standard views. Here is one slightly newer thought:
Has anyone remarked on how its musical ending pre-empts LA LA LAND?
― the pinefox, Monday, 17 April 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
I love Love and Friendship! I've watched it several times, as it feels like the most comforting movie in a long time
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 17 April 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
One of the things that amazed me (in a bad way) about DiD was the awful sound mixing/recording in some of the outdoor scenes. You'd think for a studio-distributed film, they could have gotten a few extra thou to fix that.
But I liked the film a lot anyway.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 02:23 (seven years ago) link
"Damsels In Distress" was good. Refreshing to see a depressive person imbued with a mean streak (Gerwig). Not always the usual fare in movies.
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 06:06 (seven years ago) link
Tend to agree with Aerosmith - the sound balance in this film was not the best - whether this was about recording or the mix with the music.
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP I think is superior and very good. DID seems more like a stepping stone back to that level.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 08:37 (seven years ago) link
Love & Friendship was superior in every way, yeah. Especially like how it opens with a nod to Kubrick with the scoring.
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
DiD made me laugh about five times as hard as L&F, which counts for something in a comedy, I suppose.
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed DiD more than L&F too. I think it would be easy to pick it apart, but I laughed hard and thought Gerwig was utterly charming.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
I've avoided seeing it precisely because of Gerwig.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link
I don't love her in everything, but I thought it was kind of a perfect part for her.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 00:55 (seven years ago) link
Gerwig was perfect yeah
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
The Amazon pilot is getting rebooted into a spy series.
https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/whit-stillman-the-cosmopolitans.html
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
This is great to hear! I really liked The Cosmopolitans pilot. His commitment to making the series happen puts me in mind of the Sambola!
― Alba, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
And he's still hoping to make his Jamaican film.
― Alba, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
Haven't made it through the whole interview, but having not really known a lot about Stillman himself previously, I'm amazed how autobiographical his early movies were (worked in publishing in the late '70s, moved to Barcelona afterwards etc.).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
I'd been fearing just this. pic.twitter.com/dLLH5HVkfC— Whit Stillman (@WhitStillman) June 24, 2020
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 26 June 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
Stillman on Twitter is really leaning into "lifetime white-shoe Republican repulsed at what his party has become"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
Despite the Gerwigmania gripping our nation, not only is Damsels In Distress OOP on both DVD & Blu, it's also not streaming except as a rental from Direct TV (or as a purchased download from the usual suspects).
Somebody should get on that.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 January 2024 18:34 (five months ago) link
and the Cosmopolitans pilot while they're at it.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 8 January 2024 18:46 (five months ago) link
Oh yeah, that's not officially available<anywhere>
Except there's a epk promo on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il8Xc8UYPA
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 January 2024 19:05 (five months ago) link