That post, like the tiny record shop thread and geeshie wiley discussion before it, made my day.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 April 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
It's great, isn't it? It's as if it comes straight from one of his scripts.
― Alba, Thursday, 24 April 2014 11:30 (ten years ago) link
Good job there, guy
https://twitter.com/WhitStillman/status/472040503522127872
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 May 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
A$AP Chris L @brittonlowe 10m
“@WhitStillman: Death to Hip-hop” Aw c'mon, Stillmatic.
― That's So (Eazy), Thursday, 29 May 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
404
― axe douche for men (silby), Saturday, 31 May 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah whatever that was it's gone now. ned, care to fill us in?
― display name changed. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 May 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link
Stillman tweeted "Death To Hip Hop", and several ilxors hard sonned him (kudos to JBR for "The Notorious U.H.B.")
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 31 May 2014 06:26 (nine years ago) link
For some reason I can still see the tweet minus the responses on my phone.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 31 May 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link
Twit Stillman
― display name changed. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 May 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link
Chloë Sevigny and Whit Stillman on Their Amazon Pilot The Cosmopolitans
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
omg
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
IKR! Psyched!
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
Whoa!!!
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
!!!!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
oh of fucking course whit stillman's too aspirational for netflix
(!!!)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
It's live! It's free! Everyone go watch it!!!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MR9WT7Y
― Gay Fire Beautiful Dong (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
did anyone watch it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
So even a free first episode can't be watched in Europe? Fuck that.
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
Milksops, pipsqueaks, oh this is the stuff. <3
Free version of VPNReactor gave me the 30 mins of US proxy time I needed.
― Alba, Thursday, 28 August 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 September 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
I love this man very much, thats all
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 14 September 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
i loved the pilot. i will watch this show faithfully.
― Mordy, Monday, 15 September 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/15/whit_stillman_if_racism_is_not_socially_acceptable_why_is_class_prejudice/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Trying to imagine what a Stillman-authored ep of Sanford & Son would look like.
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
It’s a problem, of course, because I think racism is not acceptable, but having class prejudice, people can pat themselves on the back for. It’s reverse class prejudice. Millions of people have been killed for being bourgeois. Should there be consciousness about that? How much of the hatred of anti-Semitism was a class thing, because the Jews of Germany were successful economically? Categorizing people economically and hating them because you think they’re this way is a prejudice.
:/ :\
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Millions of people have been killed for being bourgeois.
if Whit's keeping score he seems to have missed a salient point here
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
“They’re not embarrassed about being prejudiced if they’re being prejudiced upward,” Stillman said. “You should be embarrassed if you’re bigoted, no matter which way the bigotry runs.”
lol this guy
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
How much of the hatred of anti-Semitism was a class thing, because the Jews of Germany were successful economically?
and this man I can't even
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveW9Tw2JKE
― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
I've only seen one of his movies
I am completely unsurprised by that pullquote
― 龜, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
i love his films and the dialogue of his characters
i don't have a lot invested in either his political or historical opinions
― Mordy, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I like the movies I've seen (Metropolitan and the Last Days of Disco) okay, he does write funny dialogue
but yeah this is totally unsurprising
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
He's always been a relatively conservative guy fighting for the rights of the rich. That's what Metropolitan is all about! It mourns the tragic passing of American aristocracy. Doesn't mean I don't love it, though.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
Although it's not the point he's making necessarily, I do think that the wealthy have a perspective and stories to tell etc..., and that a film or show or whatnot is not intrinsically bad because it's about the problems of people of the upper class.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
The Surrealists were just a buncha social climbers.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
I think he had a point when he was talking about people just lazily assuming the characters are "aimless" because they're shown in a single day of leisure.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
for a "smart" guy whit stillman is awfully dumb
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
unless he's aspiring to lars van trier-like levels of trolling
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
I do think that the wealthy have a perspective and stories to tell etc..., and that a film or show or whatnot is not intrinsically bad because it's about the problems of people of the upper class.
yes, sure, absolutely. the interview is silly because the aristocracy shd never whine.
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
still witless
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
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