― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
reading (upthread) of him selling their new york appartment for $50,000 raised a laugh.
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
He writes for the Guardian today, explaining what he's been up to.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 12 May 2006 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link
"A screenplay I am working on," said Stillman, "is a college-girl comedy inspired by the Kate Beckinsale character in 'Last Days of Disco.' That character is the leader of a pack in a fictional college in Pennsylvania, a Susquehanna kind of area, not exactly Philadelphia. It will be squeaky- clean. PG-13. She is a gossip fanatic who reads the columns.
"She has a crisis and becomes very depressed, maybe one of her coterie becomes pregnant. Keep the baby is my motto. She is obsessed with the Tattle column, she is a regular reader of the Daily News
From the Philadelphia Daily News
― Alba, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry - cut off the end of that quote:
and she ends up feeding important items to the Tattle column about the university president."
Imagine him and Wes Anderson doing their version of Grindhouse.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Funnily enough, I think he and Tarantino have a fair bit in common, both having made flights of conversational fancy a hallmark of their work at a time when talkiness was unfashionable.
― Alba, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Imagine him and Wes Anderson doing their version of Grindhouse
Awesome - someone get them a meeting.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 1 November 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
lol!
― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 November 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
[Spanish Woman: You can't say Americans are not more violent than other people. Fred: No. Spanish Woman: All those people killed in shootings in America? Fred: Oh, shootings, yes. But that doesn't mean Americans are more violent than other people. We're just better shots.]
Am I ever going to get a chance to see this film?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
See, I've already waited too long
I think I was wrong to say, years ago, that Stillman was too trendy for me. Maybe it was just the fact that N. liked him so much that made me think that. Or maybe LDD had changed my perception of who liked him. In fact, I saw and loved Metropolitan way back when I was 16, so I shouldn't have had any qualms about continuing to love it - as I do.
N. was quite right to say that Stillman and Tarantino have things in common: the Lady & The Tramp discussion in LDD is probably the clearest example (I have seen) of this.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2267966,00.html
Jesus - this clown has got a whole book out of a 15-second throwaway speech in The Last Days of Disco! Even in the film it feels a bit tired.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
In fact - book this clown.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Long interview. He's neither a Fourierist nor a Buckleyite.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Criterion Last Days of Disco
If you have a copy of the first-run DVD, ebay that shit NOW.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 21 May 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
NOW NOW MOVE SOLDIER!!!
― s1ocki, Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
u can watch this on hulu u know
― just sayin, Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Woot!
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. The Last Days of Disco remains a total disappointment. What a waste.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels that way...
― Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
It's so fucking leaden. The Scrooge McDuck shit is the worst thing he's ever written.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i love last days of disco so much.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
such a great movie.
oh, scott...let's go dancing.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i only dance to latin freestyle and hi-nrg. just so you know. but you are in florida, no? that shouldn't be a problem there!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, pretty sure I'll never see a Walt Stillman film.
― irreconcilable aesthetic criteria (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah
― Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
by far my favorite of his films. Partly bcz there isn't much disco in it.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
as opposed to his other disco-packed dancefloor romps?
― Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Screening at Lincoln Center on Thursday, with Stillman there.
― Poxy Fule Of Kryptonite (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
There's plenty of disco in TLDOD -- he just doesn't have an ear for it or a sense of what to do with the damn tunes.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it's not really about disco. hate to break it to you!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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Yeah, pretty sure I'll never see another film again in my entire life.
― irreconcilable aesthetic criteria (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i wish there was a last days of disco t.v. show i could watch every week. forever. until i die. gilmore girls was as close as i ever came. (omg i can't wait to get first season of thirtysomething on dvd!!!! i told maria to get it for my birthday. so, i have to wait until october. oh sweet agony of waiting...)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
just impulse-bought the criterion edition last night. i only have a vhs copy currently...
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Huh. Well, Last Days of Disco was the first one I saw (unless you count half of Metropolitan on PBS, which I kind of don't), and I was definitely into it, but it's possible it was just that Halcyon Summer of Indie Films (1998) that found me running to the cinema to see Buffalo 66 and The Opposite of Sex and Love! Valour! Compassion! and Whatever and Pecker and Slums of Beverly Hills and Henry Fool and Your Friends and Neighbors and High Art and The Spanish Prisoner. So, you know...
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
well, he's back and the US and not really doing muchhttp://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-25/film/whit-stillman-speaks-eleven-years-after-his-last-film/
― velko, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah there's really no disco vibe at all in Last Days, but i like the film. now Barcelona, that one was boring and dissapointing (Metropolitan easily being his best)
― Ludo, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 07:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Really? I like Barcelona much more than Last Days.
― or have I become completely absurd? (kenan), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
barcelona is my favorite, though i could probably stand to watch all three again
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
metropolitan was the only one i liked, but i've not seen any of them since Last Days came out
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Barcelona had this strange violent twist and unlike the other 2 (but I guess mainly Metropolitan) it's trying a little too hard. it reminded me of L'Auberge Espagnole.
― Ludo, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Well now. Look at who's fancy. :)
― or have I become completely absurd? (kenan), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the first 1/2 of metropolitan
a bit of barcelona
and this was a letdown.
he tends have really nice ideas for... i don't know... let's say, "settings" for films. and a good sense of how to communicate those times and places' vibe, and what actors to populate them with. but i don't think he's really capable of that much more.
― Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not being entirely fair there, he does have a pretty good way with dialogue and simple conversation scenes... which is nothing to sneeze at.
― Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link