Whatever happened to Whit Stillman?

did anyone watch it

So even a free first episode can't be watched in Europe? Fuck that.

Milksops, pipsqueaks, oh this is the stuff. <3

So even a free first episode can't be watched in Europe? Fuck that.

Free version of VPNReactor gave me the 30 mins of US proxy time I needed.

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.

I love this man very much, thats all

i loved the pilot. i will watch this show faithfully.

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/15/whit_stillman_if_racism_is_not_socially_acceptable_why_is_class_prejudice/

Trying to imagine what a Stillman-authored ep of Sanford & Son would look like.

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.

:/ :\

Millions of people have been killed for being bourgeois.

if Whit's keeping score he seems to have missed a salient point here

“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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveW9Tw2JKE

I've only seen one of his movies

I am completely unsurprised by that pullquote

i love his films and the dialogue of his characters

i don't have a lot invested in either his political or historical opinions

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

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.

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.

The Surrealists were just a buncha social climbers.

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.

for a "smart" guy whit stillman is awfully dumb

unless he's aspiring to lars van trier-like levels of trolling

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.

yes, sure, absolutely. the interview is silly because the aristocracy shd never whine.

still witless

all whit, no wit

TBF I enjoyed Metropolitan (which is what I watched) but on the whole it was like a John Hughes movie with less humor and slapstick

whoa

anyway this episode is basically redolent of john irving losing it at the rich being discriminated against. good artists can say dumb things when fighting perceived inverse discrimination

anyone who's ever paid attention to his movies can not possibly be surprised by this

his movies, tbf, while set in bourgie milieux, are more imo about universals of fellowship & empathy, and espouse what is often a subversively surreal methodology

this is coming from someone with a hair-trigger response to unexamined bourgie presumptuousness

for reasons of lamentable overexposure obv before u all start zinging

*doesn't comment*

Amazon orders scripts, not episodes for Cosmopolitans

I've made it deeper into Cosmopolitans than I did Metropolitan, but I think that might just be that I like Chloe Sevigny and the guy from the OC.
Still kind of awful.

Just saw Taylor Nichols on an ep of Newsradio playing the representative from Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor.

adapting Jane Austen’s Lady Susan as Love and Friendship, with Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny:

“Beckinsale will portray the widow Lady Susan Vernon, who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. She decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter. The cast includes Xavier Samuel and Stephen Fry, the long-suffering husband to Lady Susan’s friend and confidante, portrayed by Sevigny. Filming begins in Ireland this month.”

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/kate-beckinsale-chloe-sevigny-reunite-in-love-and-friendship-1201421435/

zzzzzzz

WELL!

Stillman doing a Jane Austen... next thing Tarantino will be doing a snuff film and Chris Nolan a 3D IMAX adap of the phone book.

yeah, white on white, so to speak.

Perhaps he should have challenged himself by adapting and filming criticism of Jane Austen instead.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WhitStillman/status/649332929194233858

https://www.criterion.com/films/28691-barcelona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MaSK3POHI0

get hype motherfuckers

beckinsale 4ever

The Last Days of Disco prequel we always wanted.

I don't see Chris Eigemann in there anywhere. I don't know about this.

stephen fry :(

Stilton doing an Austen riff in period-appropriate drag feels a bit too on the nose to me, as his films were already covert Austen adaptations.

This does remind me, though, that I still need to see Damsels in Distress.

*Stillman