https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcyGHb53-Fs
I just watched the Metropolitan trailer for the first time in over 20 years. It used to play before every film at my university film society for a while.
― Alba, Thursday, 30 January 2014 10:45 (ten years ago) link
I don't understand the TV business well enough to read that link properly -- does it mean there's a 10% chance I get a Whit Stillman sitcom, or a 90% chance I get a Whit Stillman sitcom?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:05 (ten years ago) link
where's suzy when you need her
― conrad, Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Can't say I'm still in touch with Whit. But I am friends with someone who'd know a ton about Amazon Studios.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:49 (ten years ago) link
come on you could say you were still in touch with whit
― conrad, Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
whit's a big armond white fan I found out via his twitter
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
From the URL, thought Stillman was creating a show about Shaun Cassidy.
― tbd (Eazy), Thursday, 30 January 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
I'd think closer to 90% than 10%
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Friday, 31 January 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 31 January 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
has a novel coming... Love & Friendship: An Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novella Concerning the Beautiful Lady Susan Vernon, Her Loves and Friendships, and the Strange Antagonism of the DeCourcy Family
http://www.thewrap.com/whit-stillman-writing-jane-austen-inspired-novel
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
and now it's a movie, set to shoot this summer so this looks like it's actually happening - http://www.screendaily.com/news/austen-comedy-lands-at-efm/5066432.article
― balls, Monday, 10 February 2014 00:43 (ten years ago) link
:D
― conrad, Monday, 10 February 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link
A letter Whit Stillman wrote to the New York Times in 1974.
http://i.imgur.com/Gvz0431.png
― Alba, Thursday, 24 April 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
The most Whit Stillman-esque Whit Stillman letter ever
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 24 April 2014 01:42 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
404
― axe douche for men (silby), Saturday, 31 May 2014 00:53 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Twit Stillman
― display name changed. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 May 2014 06:28 (ten 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