Whatever happened to Whit Stillman?

interview with my brother in law about editing and whit and other things:

http://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/andrew-hafitz

already posted elsewhere -

Absolutely adored DID. A rare example of a movie that got better and better and better the more it went on, to the extent where I'm obsessing over it now. I see very few films that create and sustain their own reality like this - I would even describe it as one of the few genuinely surrealistic American films of recent years. A gentler, more polite, more naively prone to snobbery yes perhaps but more compassionate reality, where the impossibility of all the characters - the nobly dumb fratboys, the perpetually self-possessed (even in despair) damsels, especially Violet, whose brazen, luminous impossibility is allowed to tear through the fabric of our given reality by that glorious ending. So yes - a film with no obligation to fulfil any logic but its own.

remember when that guy didn't know colors?

A rare example of a movie that got better and better and better the more it went on,

I noted the same thing but then realized I had to reacquaint myself with his rhythms.

Whit Stillman ‏@WhitStillman
Yes thx we didn't have a prayer but “@adam_the_k: I hope list of Top 10 Oscar Snubs consoles @WhitStillman: http://nextprojection.com/2013/02/12/top-ten-2012-oscar-snubs/ …”

adam_the_k has a rather stillmanesque surname

just had a very nice, semi-lengthy conversation with none other than T@ylor Nich0ls (unnece$$@ry g00glepr00fing)

ha this just happened again, such a nice guy!

middle-aged dads be *makes drinky-drinky hand gesture*

SO JEALOUS

Ha, I rescreened both Metropolitan & Barcelona in the last couple weeks.

Feel like it is approaching the time for my semi-decadal sighting of Chris Eigeman.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/amazon-eyes-comedy-pilot-from-whit-stillman-drama-from-shaun-cassidy/

I thought for a minute the title meant it was the Metropolitan cast decamped to Paris, but then I realised they'd be a bit old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcyGHb53-Fs

I just watched the Metropolitan trailer for the first time in over 20 years. It used to play before every film at my university film society for a while.

I don't understand the TV business well enough to read that link properly -- does it mean there's a 10% chance I get a Whit Stillman sitcom, or a 90% chance I get a Whit Stillman sitcom?

where's suzy when you need her

Can't say I'm still in touch with Whit. But I am friends with someone who'd know a ton about Amazon Studios.

come on you could say you were still in touch with whit

whit's a big armond white fan I found out via his twitter

From the URL, thought Stillman was creating a show about Shaun Cassidy.

I'd think closer to 90% than 10%

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

has a novel coming... Love & Friendship: An Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novella Concerning the Beautiful Lady Susan Vernon, Her Loves and Friendships, and the Strange Antagonism of the DeCourcy Family

http://www.thewrap.com/whit-stillman-writing-jane-austen-inspired-novel

and now it's a movie, set to shoot this summer so this looks like it's actually happening - http://www.screendaily.com/news/austen-comedy-lands-at-efm/5066432.article

:D

A letter Whit Stillman wrote to the New York Times in 1974.

http://i.imgur.com/Gvz0431.png

The most Whit Stillman-esque Whit Stillman letter ever

That post, like the tiny record shop thread and geeshie wiley discussion before it, made my day.

It's great, isn't it? It's as if it comes straight from one of his scripts.

Good job there, guy

https://twitter.com/WhitStillman/status/472040503522127872

A$AP Chris L ‏@brittonlowe 10m

“@WhitStillman: Death to Hip-hop” Aw c'mon, Stillmatic.

404

yeah whatever that was it's gone now. ned, care to fill us in?

Stillman tweeted "Death To Hip Hop", and several ilxors hard sonned him (kudos to JBR for "The Notorious U.H.B.")

For some reason I can still see the tweet minus the responses on my phone.

Twit Stillman

Chloë Sevigny and Whit Stillman on Their Amazon Pilot The Cosmopolitans

omg

IKR! Psyched!

Whoa!!!

!!!!

oh of fucking course whit stillman's too aspirational for netflix

(!!!)

It's live! It's free! Everyone go watch it!!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MR9WT7Y

did anyone watch it

So even a free first episode can't be watched in Europe? Fuck that.

Milksops, pipsqueaks, oh this is the stuff. <3

So even a free first episode can't be watched in Europe? Fuck that.

Free version of VPNReactor gave me the 30 mins of US proxy time I needed.

Finally remembered to watch "The Cosmopolitans" pilot. Liked it alot and sent positive feedback. Nice to hear Stillman loading the soundtrack with Uptown Soul. He's kind of underrated as a soundtrack director.

I love this man very much, thats all

i loved the pilot. i will watch this show faithfully.

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/15/whit_stillman_if_racism_is_not_socially_acceptable_why_is_class_prejudice/

Trying to imagine what a Stillman-authored ep of Sanford & Son would look like.