Whatever happened to Whit Stillman?

great interview! i know stuff but i'm not allowed to talk. about the movie. can't wait!

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great interview! i know stuff but i'm not allowed to talk. about the movie. can't wait!

― scott seward, Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:20 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg!

i wish i was in it. i am sworn to secrecy though. if you read this thread you would be able to figure out why. anyway, again, can't wait!

okay i read the thread and omg!

love that interview

excited!

"I like how a couple of the comments are essentially saying "Hey this doesn't have anything to do with theocons!"

Yeah, some of the comments are truly weird - and I admit I read First Things often.
Anyway, very happy to see Stillman back at work.

“And light,” she says. “Everyone always says you’re always running out of light.”

“For my past films, we were always running out of night.”

Love it. Want to watch TLDOD again right now. In fact I might just do that. Fuck the ironing.

So depressing though how much difficulty he has had getting the money together to make another film, and also confused as to how he actually has made a living over the last 12 years. Living in Paris isn't cheap.

yeah i was just wondering how he affords his lifestyle

At one point he mentions doing some adverts in Jamaica for a chocloate company. Perhaps they paid really well?

Sorry, meant Jakarta (but he travlled to Jamaica).

The mundane reasons are that you can actually live here better, cheaper than in New York. I got priced out of New York, I lost my loft in Soho and schools were getting very expensive and actually the situation here is much better in the macro scale. I think when people go to cafés they think it’s all very expensive, but when you’re paying tuitions and rent it’s much cheaper. The more you get.

but yeah sort of wonder how he affords tuitions and rent and everything else. suppose he had that last days of disco novel published ten years ago?

v excited about a new w stillman movie

85 Minutes with Whit Stillman

watching metropolitan again recently, it kind of amazed me how rough so much of the acting and filmmaking was... still charming though.

^^^ had same reaction when i *rescreened* it year or so ago

i mean, for a movie that's so dialogue-driven, the fact that only one actor really "came out of it" into any kind of career (eigeman), kinda says something

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166221/

:/

taylor nichols has done all right, but yeah

slox:
http://www.queenswaycathedral.com/pastoralteam.html

is that near you?

it looks like it's in toronto?

i'm not sure i 'get it'

take another looky

whoa is that

maybe he'd be up for a "where are they now?". i'd read it.

dude sounds like he's got a pretty interesting life from what it looks like

he skydived!

how did you find that??

Allison Rutledge-Parisi is an attorney, the chief administrative officer for Kaplan, Inc., and a former actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Jane Clark in Whit Stillman's critically acclaimed film Metropolitan (1990).

bizarre

http://www.google.com/search?&q=toronto+pastor+clements

haha ya but how did you find out he was a toronto pastor??!

Carolyn Farina is so cute in metropolitan, wasn't she like a sales girl at macy's or something when she got the part?

yeah she's great in it imo

Oh haha, on his imdb page msg board you linked, someone said he became quickly disenfranchised with the entertainment industry and has been a pastor in toronto for almost 20 years.

ahhhhhhhh

stillman's commentary where he talks about the casting process makes me forgive the roughness (amateurism?) of the cast and performances, i think he was aiming for talent with less experience for better or worse. it's a crazy first film, almost a dare that held up on my last ~*rescreen*~.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uBlj1OBZg

kind of intriguing interview... on a canadian christian tv show

man i remember reading some interview forever ago w/ whit stillman where talking about the cast of metropolitan he mentioned that one of the cast members was not doing so well and for some reason i just assumed it was tom townshend. so glad he turned out ok! somehow 'found god, moved to canada' is the perfect american graffiti/hot for teacher epilogue. maybe whitman was making some veiled jibe at mind of the married man.

last days of disco is my fave i think (it's got disco) but metropolitan is definitely always going to be the one that meant most to me. huge movie for me in high school, i'm almost afraid to revisit it now. love it when audrey rouget pops up in last days and kate beckinsale talking about her. love you forever ms. farina!

whoa! thanks for the link i watched the whole damn thing.

also, JB, dude didn't move to Canada, that was a home for him (I always wondered how an UWSider had that Canadian accent going on).

is that the mom from that 70s show he's talking with?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH98-0MNsN8&feature=player_embedded

Eigeman is looking like Floyd Landis lol

"So depressing though how much difficulty he has had getting the money together to make another film, and also confused as to how he actually has made a living over the last 12 years. Living in Paris isn't cheap."

I saw a great interview with a poet where the interviewer said, "This is not a get-rich-quick field, is it." To which the poet replied, "It's not a get-rich-slow field, either." Amazing for example that Kurosawa took ten years to make "Ran" and "Kagemusha" (with five year gaps between each) because he couldn't get funding for them... this must have been twenty years after "Seven Samurai"...

i know this is heresy, mayhaps, but 'Metropolitan' was...like...ugh. i can't watch it at all. 'LDOD,' on the other hand, is probably in my top 20 of the 90s.

Stillman's Criterion top 10.

i've never seen big deal on madonna street. or black orpheus.

man notorious is the best thing ever

heh now i see Lombard as the Chloe Sevigny of My Man Godfrey.

yeah that BJ she gives William Powell at the end of the movie is epic.

"cast of archetypal beauty" otm on notorious