the Whit Stillman Poll

This result came in in the wrong order.

finally saw last days of disco last night - not bad. nabisco otm re: beckinsale being born for that kind of role. also rescreened ; ) metropolitan a couple of weeks back. awkward low-budget stuff and non-pro actors aside that holds up well.

Love all of these but I'm baffled by how Metropolitan, not just the best Whit Stillman movie but maybe the best movie of its kind, didn't leave Disco in the dust.

Metropolitan is a movie I can watch over and over and over.

last days of disco is one of my favourite movies ever, also the soundtrack is maybe my most played album ever

i rewatched metropolitan & i had forgotten how sad and weird the last third of the movie is, partic the scene where charlie and tom talk about failure with the older uhb dude @ a bar

also the blank dismissal of fourier with "i wouldnt want to live on a farm" in the cab to southhampton, is ~amazing~

Watched Metropolitan for the first time in maybe 20 years the other night, it's still very good. Eigeman and Taylor Nichols are both pricelessly funny, tho I find the sudden appearance of a weapon kind of inexplicable, psychologically.

talk about failure with the older uhb dude @ a bar

This is great, esp the way the guy accepts the existence of "ub?" as a term. I didn't find their convo particularly sad, just... realistic.

"Where do they get off?"

I find the sudden appearance of a weapon kind of inexplicable, psychologically.

After many, many watchings of this movie I finally understood that this is the toy gun that Tom finds in the trash outside his childhood apartment. I think it's some kind of failure of direction that makes it read as a real gun.

well I presumed it wasn't real, but I didn't recall a gun being seen in the toy box.

Anyway, it's funny how that actor's career disappeared, tho he 'only' played a noodge pretty well.

he's a priest or found god something, I think someone posted a youtube about it in this thread

lol nm some other thread

The only dud is the actor who played Rick Von Slonaker is terrible -- Rick Von Surfer amirite

Eigeman builds up the legend of Rick Von Slonaker so well that, whenever I rewatch, I always forget he actually appears in the movie.

"It's a composite! Like New York magazine does."

eigeman as nick smith is *dream city*

So YOU'RE one of those public transportation snobs!

Metropoliatee

sometime in her senior year, she started feeling depressed. now, part of it was finally becoming disillusioned with horses. but there were some real psychological problems too.

you're a slob, sexist, totally obnoxious and tiresome, and lately you've gotten just weird.

lol snob, obv, chris eigeman is not a slob

i guess you could say it's extremely vulgar. i like it a lot.

i am not tiresome!

i guess you could say it's extremely vulgar. i like it a lot.

Eigeman can do no wrong in this movie, but his delivery of this line just flattens everything else.

Driver. Follow that pedestrian.

He's a considerate and selfish man. The rest is just a superficial game, a facade -- which you've obviously been taken in by.

soto, morbs: new one opens here friday - i'm damn near camping out, catching the first show at five whatever. do i need to temper my expectations? is it a mess? does he still have the 'eye of the tiger'?

I haven't watched it yet -- tomorrow night mehopes

i am not soto or morbs but the new one is very funny and kind of diffuse. gerwig is tremendous. it feels unfinished. not as good as metropolitan, for sure.

upset that i did not see it when i had the shot

NOBODY ASKED YOU "HORSESHOE"

haha sorry. could have used some eigeman, but what couldn't?

jk

vaguely related since gerwig (who i do love) is in this and the ten minutes of kicking and screaming i could bear back in nineteen ninety whatever struck me as a very poor attempt at whit stillman: i did LOVE greenberg. shit HIT HOME. the scene w/ the kids and he's making them listen to 'the chauffeur'? HIT HOME. should i give his (baumbach, not ben stiller) earlier movies a shot (or 'screening')? ppl still talk about the squid and the whale and i thought for sure that would be a movie ppl would forget about after a year and then years later you'd think 'ha, remember when ppl thought this was a good movie?'

related: little worried i might be too old now to enjoy a whit stillman movie about foolish young ppl. apparently not too old for the avengers though. cinema is dead.

i used to group baumbach and stillman in my mind back when baumbach had only done kicking and screaming and that slighter party one--highball? kicking and screaming is classic imo. i guess in a sense squid and the whale is better, but it's not the one i've seen 95 times. i couldn't deal with margot at the wedding. i have some kind of avoidance issue with greenberg, but i guess i should just watch it.

i think the critical line on baumbach is that his early movies were slick but squid and the whale is where he matured or grew a soul or something. i prefer kicking and screaming, further evidence of arrested development, i guess.

K&S isn't bad but the dialogue isn't sparkly enough for those actors. Sluggish pace too.

Baumbach gets points for Carlos Jacott, a Whit Stillman actor who never appeared in a Whit Stillman movie.

Come to think of it Carlos Jacott is something of a Whedon regular as well...

kicking and screaming is nonstop sparkling dialogue!

memorable turn on firefly!

The helldemon who posed as a social worker and trapped Buffy in hell - Season 3, ep. 1.

david simon was right, i need to revisit buffy

otm

Cannot remember a thing about LDD, beyond liking it at one time. Maybe worth a revisit?

His worst, although I've got friends who can quote reams of its crappy dialogue. It's the only time his low budgets cramped his aesthetic (the discos look like high school cafeterias).

it's really funny

and it's better than barcelona (i am not a dude fwiw)

ldd owns

prefer Barcelona (the only one I've seen in the THEE-ah-ter).