I am watching Barcelona
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
i really want to see barcelona again haven't seen it since it was in the theaters and i remember being very lukewarm about it.
carolyn farina is so cute
― buzza, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
i saw all of them in the theaters you hulu watching poseurs
― balls, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
metropolitian almost definitely the best, barcelona almost definitely the 'worst', last days of disco my fave.
― balls, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
that is an acceptable pov
― horseshoe, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
We'll all realize our hubris when posterity declares that episode of HOMICIDE he directed to be the best.
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
I just watched Barcelona and it was very unengaging.
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://storage.people.com/people/archive/jpgs/19901001/19901001-750-85.jpg
― balls, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
a secaret ant land-a-ing strip
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 May 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.twitter.com/whitstillman
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 3 May 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
WAH
― balls, Thursday, 3 May 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
a stepmother of unTRAMMELED malevolence!!
― Reg, Thursday, 3 May 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
it's weird how many of the actors in Met look familiar but have sparse imdb pages + i can't quite place them. maybe they just have the look of someone who could've been famous
― Mordy, Thursday, 3 May 2012 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
soto, morbs: new one opens here friday
I haven't seen it, too busy writing about shit no one cares about.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
omg these poll results are dead wrong!
― flopson, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah...carolyn farina has a bit part in damsels, too
― horseshoe, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 11:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i saw this last night & didn't notice, what was it?
― flopson, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
barcalona is the funniest one imho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
just googled taylor nichols and it suggested to me that i search for chris eigeman instead
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
i like barcelona a lot; eigeman's genuinely wounded imperialism is hilarious.
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
jumping out of the car to huffily try and remove anti-american graffiti with a sharpie.
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
eigeman is definitely the best part, but it's not as funny as ldd
― horseshoe, Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
i like when he's making fun of dustin hoffman in the graduate. "elaine, elaine"
Metropolitan is the only one I've seen. I don't remember a lot about it except feeling like there were a lot of inside jokes going on that I didn't get. The friend who recommended it to me was a scholarship kid at a highly prestigious private school so maybe it meant more to her.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
it def helps if you find the mention of well-placed Averill Harriman, Bunuel, and Trilling references thrilling in itself.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
I don't read literary criticism, I just read blogs about it.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
just realized Robert Sean Leonard is in Last Days
― Mordy, Friday, 4 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah metropolitan is the best but i like them all so much that theyre all deserving winners, gold medals all around imo
― Lamp, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
who do you think whit stillman's favourite authors are?
― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
f scott?
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
jane austin?
fourier
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
i'd guess oscar wilde too
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
he says jane austen & tolstoy and then some other author/novel that i can't make out at 9:40 here
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/3494
can you figure that out?
― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
■The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (unabridged edition) ■Essay on Man by Alexander Pope■Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy ■Portrait of Max: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm by S.N. Behrman■The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
otm re fitzgerald, his short stories were his best work
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
can you make out what he's saying in that charlie rose clip, mordy?
― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
i cannot
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
Salinger!
― timellison, Sunday, 6 May 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
"Essay on Man" is awesome for its epigrammatic virtues.
lol "The Price is High" I read as a senior year high school Fitz obsessive.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 May 2012 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
have any of you read his (stillman's) novel?
― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Bought a ticket to see him introduce The Last Days of Disco on Thursday. He's here Wednesday for Metropolitan, which is probably the better film; just felt like seeing Last Days instead. (I've still never seen Barcelona.) I feel like I should wear a bow tie for some reason.
― clemenza, Saturday, 8 December 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Baumbach gets points for Carlos Jacott, a Whit Stillman actor who never appeared in a Whit Stillman movie.
I just want to pedantically point out that Carlos Jacott actually does have the tiniest of cameos in Last Days of Disco
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 07:34 (eleven years ago) link
that is a pivotal scene
― conrad, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
I liked The Last Days of Disco more than the couple of times I saw it when it first came out. I probably liked it as much as I can like a film where every conversation sounds like lines being read. Great music, of course, and excellent Demme-like coda.
The Q&A was an ordeal. First of all the guy running it took up the first half-hour--I just wanted him to shut up and turn it over to the audience. Stillman mumbles and rambles--I could barely understand him. (It wasn't the acoustics; I could hear the other guy fine.) If I did hear one thing correctly--Stillman saying that by 1969, black music had disappeared from the radio--his memory is either extremely faulty, or he was listening to some format other than Top 40 radio. 1970-72 was one of the greatest periods for black music on Top 40 radio ever. If he meant that there were obscure proto-disco records not being played on the radio, then I'm sure he's right about that--even though something like Chakachas' "Jungle Fever" was a big hit.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 December 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
Watched Barcelona for the first time last night. It has its flaws but I loved it like nothing I've seen in a long time.
despite the fact that someone is shot and there are explosions, it has only the vaguest notion of a plot, just Eigeman and Taylor hanging out 80% of the time.
^This. I guess how compelling this is to you determines whether or not you'll like this...
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
barcelona is so good.
i recommend this insane collection of rightwing stillman criticism: http://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Bourgeois-Love-Essays-Stillman/dp/1882926706
― adam, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
25th anniv podcast for Metropolitan
http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/the-close-up-whit-stillman-and-cast-talk-metropolitan/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 August 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
so YOU'RE one of those public transportation snobs!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link
last days definitely the worst of these three. i still love it but it's stilted in a way the others aren't. maybe the acting isn't as good, obviously he writes the least natural sounding dialogue ever but in metropolitan you can kind of suspend disbelief and just live in the dream, in the flow of precocious & perfectly crafted sentences.
best most LOL thing about last days is how it's the period piece least concerned with being a period piece... not that it was outright anachronistic (altho i feel like some of the dudes had 90's hair and the female leads' dresses were too tasteful for '79, like GIS studio 54 1979) but he just didn't really gaf about evoking the 70's, just wanted to write a movie featuring his favourite songs and some well dressed folk, didn't fuss over set design, just throw on some high-waisted pants
― flopson, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
when I saw LDOD a few years ago for the second time I also thought it stilted and the first time his limited visual imagination cramped the film. I didn't buy the discos -- they looked like cheap sets. But I wanna watch it again.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 01:45 (nine years ago) link