Whatever happened to Whit Stillman?

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WAIT

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

HOLD the PHONE

max, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:30 (fourteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RwdH5DTKRas/TO1Wb_ys1WI/AAAAAAAADlo/64A_HcTpWkM/s400/stop+the+presses.jpg

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

I can see max having LOL or Nights and Weekends on if he's walking around the apartment while his gf makes dinner, maybe

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:34 (fourteen years ago)

in the nude

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

malcolmcore

buzza, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

nah just kidding ive never actually seen a movie

max, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

... w/ a $72 budget.

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:40 (fourteen years ago)

no i only watch tv

max, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

on my iphone

max, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

nice, most convenient way 2 do it!!

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

waiting to see Joe Swanberg's first film in Farsi on my wristwatch

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 16:14 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-03-28/film/whit-stillman-in-distress/

He sounds pretty bummed.

America's Mobile, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 05:46 (fourteen years ago)

I enjoyed this!

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:42 (fourteen years ago)

whit stillman is a very youthful 60

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 30 March 2012 06:32 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, he didn't look that old at all.

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 30 March 2012 06:32 (fourteen years ago)

nb I had to ditch most of the Q & A tonight but I saw the first bit. I wish I could have stuck around. Utopianism is a good entry point for this film, and that's what he was talking about when I left.

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 30 March 2012 06:33 (fourteen years ago)

plenty of NY appearances next couple days

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/whit-stillman-in-new-york

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 19:49 (fourteen years ago)

I'm going tomorrow, apparently! Me! To a film thing!

how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 19:52 (fourteen years ago)

I may go too

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 19:54 (fourteen years ago)

I'll be there tonight and tomorrow.

Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

I'm guessing Laurel means Brooklyn and VP Astoria?

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

Ah, laurel should come to bk to see the whit in person. Omg, I just realized Chris Eigeman will be present tonight.

Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

The Siren interviews Stillman

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 6 April 2012 07:12 (fourteen years ago)

I believe Stillman was in both places, directors work it when stuff opens.

A fan of Big Deal on Madonna Street:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/damsels_in_distress/news/1924873/five_favorite_films_with_whit_stillman/#newsletter

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2012 12:02 (fourteen years ago)

This was pretty good. Loved Greta Gerwig referring to Real McCoy's "Another Night" as a "golden oldie."

get me bloodied (Eric H.), Friday, 6 April 2012 12:04 (fourteen years ago)

i am very pro-gerwig, being the one person on ilx who really liked greenberg.

Nah, I loved Greenberg.

Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Friday, 6 April 2012 13:02 (fourteen years ago)

whatever i disliked about greenberg, it had nothing to do w/ gerwig

max, Friday, 6 April 2012 13:03 (fourteen years ago)

indeed

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

i dug gerberg

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 6 April 2012 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

nyt review is mostly positive.

scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

but its not a rave or anything.

scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

still, it makes you want to see it. if you read movie reviews in the nyt.

scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

same w/ new yorker review. loved greenberg, LOVE gerwig. stoked for this.

balls, Friday, 6 April 2012 23:08 (fourteen years ago)

Once I got accustomed to its...idiosyncracies...I really liked it.

Even though that scene reminds me of Fat Girl and that's weird.

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 7 April 2012 02:03 (fourteen years ago)

Even though that scene reminds me of Fat Girl and that's weird.

the one where the girl is raped by the guy who kills her mother and sister?

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 8 April 2012 05:53 (fourteen years ago)

spoiler alert

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 8 April 2012 05:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://gothamist.com/2012/04/06/wtf_happened_at_that_lena_dunham_wh.php

buzza, Monday, 9 April 2012 03:24 (fourteen years ago)

well i missed something 'scandalous'

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 April 2012 03:37 (fourteen years ago)

luv that pic, looks like LD was about to go full "g"

Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 April 2012 04:18 (fourteen years ago)

I enjoyed watching it in the same way I might enjoy watching Mean Girls and reading Myra Breckenridge at the same time. what most excited me though is the hope that stillman might become active again, which I guess means I didn't think it was great. he introduced the film so that was neat (sadly, he is not quite a whit stillman character himself), and It's definitely fun if you don't work too hard trying to resolve the politics of the thing.

snack, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:11 (fourteen years ago)

nobody told me duquan from the wire was in damsels!!!

gerwig was great and it was really funny. kind of felt unfinished; my sister said she thought it was more like a bunch of short stories than a full narrative.

horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

agree that it felt unfinished. his films have always had an oddly-paced, episodic feel with lots of plot threads left untied, but this didn't quite meld with Damsel's campy, almost bubblegum sheen. like, when you end a movie with consecutive song-and-dance numbers, you expect this is because everything has suddenly become resolved (ala Hairspray lol).

snack, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 07:07 (fourteen years ago)

Glenn Kenny has thoughts on The Last Days of Disco, and how Lena Dunham's assessment of it (and her Tiny Furniture) relates:

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2012/04/disco-mystic-and-the-dunham-variation.html

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:39 (fourteen years ago)

yeah it was a funny way to phrase dunham's question, given how horrible charlotte is. but i take it to be a big concern of hers, depictions of female friendship, which i dig. stillman's non-response was pretty annoying tbh but i still love him.

horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:49 (fourteen years ago)

Was just telling NY/Buffalo crowd that I'd never seen a Stillman movie, ended up seeing this at the Landmark Sunshine the following night. At first I thought it was clunky and embarrassing and I wasn't sure what it was aiming for, but then it suddenly took off and became a lot of fun.

ljubljana, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 00:40 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

what a weird movie

blossom smulch (schlump), Sunday, 29 April 2012 14:26 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UCVmNb05Rw

Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:14 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

damsels is ok. its really cute and amusing, but maybe not funny. there were parts where i didnt really understand what he was doing. glad hes making stuff again though

Hungry4Ass, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

yea i didnt think it was funny really at all. kinda thought it was a waste of time for everyone involved including me watching it

johnny crunch, Monday, 21 May 2012 01:00 (fourteen years ago)


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