Whatever happened to Whit Stillman?

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friend of mine met him at a party in New York last week. He lives in Paris now, is uncomfortable with gushing, etc. *very* conservative in a bitching about Dan Rather sort of way.

A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

last days of disco was rubbish.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

LDoD is highly underrated. Also, the revisionists have won.

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

it is very, very underrated by me.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

last days was no good, i agree.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

{I have only seen it once, in the theater which was how many years ago? At any rate, you guys are wrong.}

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

all or Rory and Logan's awful yale friends (and logan himself) on the Gilmore Girls strike me as Stillman homages/pisstakes.

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:44 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
with the criterion release, i took the opportunity to check out metropolitan again, as i do every like seven years or so... it really is a pretty awful movie, isn't it? one of those movies i always give another chance and yet always lets me down.

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

How dare you not be elegant and rich.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

WHO SAID I'M NOT

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

i dig the first 20 minutes but i found myself compulsively losing interest afterwards. there's some good punchlines but the writing is generally not very good and some of the acting is TERRIBLE.

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

It's just a Wes Anderson film without the painfully hip soundtrack, you cruel man.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

it really is a pretty awful movie, isn't it?

no.

last days was no good, i agree.
-- s1ocki (slytus...), March 13th, 2006.

and no!

lauren (laurenp), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

slocki, why you break heart?

lauren (laurenp), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

it's my heart that = broken! i am not immune to WS's charms, i just wish his movies didn't suck so bad!!

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

the revisionists have won.
-- Steve Shasta (steveshast...), March 13th, 2006 3:35 PM. (Steve Shasta)

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

what did we win

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

i'll tell you what i LOST, 99 minutes of my valuable time

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

i wonder why anyone would wonder what happened to him? ridiculous chartacters, stilted acting, terrible dialogue (yes). The Last Days of Disco has some charming moments though ( the last scene).

reading (upthread) of him selling their new york appartment for $50,000 raised a laugh.

jed_ (jed), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Confessions of a serial drifter .

He writes for the Guardian today, explaining what he's been up to.

Alba (Alba), Friday, 12 May 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

"A screenplay I am working on," said Stillman, "is a college-girl comedy inspired by the Kate Beckinsale character in 'Last Days of Disco.' That character is the leader of a pack in a fictional college in Pennsylvania, a Susquehanna kind of area, not exactly Philadelphia. It will be squeaky- clean. PG-13. She is a gossip fanatic who reads the columns.

"She has a crisis and becomes very depressed, maybe one of her coterie becomes pregnant. Keep the baby is my motto. She is obsessed with the Tattle column, she is a regular reader of the Daily News

From the Philadelphia Daily News

Alba, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

sorry - cut off the end of that quote:

and she ends up feeding important items to the Tattle column about the university president."

Alba, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

Imagine him and Wes Anderson doing their version of Grindhouse.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Funnily enough, I think he and Tarantino have a fair bit in common, both having made flights of conversational fancy a hallmark of their work at a time when talkiness was unfashionable.

Alba, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Imagine him and Wes Anderson doing their version of Grindhouse

Awesome - someone get them a meeting.

Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 1 November 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

Imagine him and Wes Anderson doing their version of Grindhouse.

-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

lol!

s1ocki, Thursday, 1 November 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

[Spanish Woman: You can't say Americans are not more violent than other people.
Fred: No.
Spanish Woman: All those people killed in shootings in America?
Fred: Oh, shootings, yes. But that doesn't mean Americans are more violent than other people. We're just better shots.]

Am I ever going to get a chance to see this film?

the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

See, I've already waited too long

the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

I think I was wrong to say, years ago, that Stillman was too trendy for me. Maybe it was just the fact that N. liked him so much that made me think that. Or maybe LDD had changed my perception of who liked him. In fact, I saw and loved Metropolitan way back when I was 16, so I shouldn't have had any qualms about continuing to love it - as I do.

N. was quite right to say that Stillman and Tarantino have things in common: the Lady & The Tramp discussion in LDD is probably the clearest example (I have seen) of this.

the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2267966,00.html

Jesus - this clown has got a whole book out of a 15-second throwaway speech in The Last Days of Disco! Even in the film it feels a bit tired.

the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

In fact - book this clown.

the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

Long interview. He's neither a Fourierist nor a Buckleyite.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

Criterion Last Days of Disco

If you have a copy of the first-run DVD, ebay that shit NOW.

The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 21 May 2009 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

NOW NOW MOVE SOLDIER!!!

s1ocki, Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

u can watch this on hulu u know

just sayin, Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

If you have a copy of the first-run DVD, ebay that shit NOW.

Woot!

Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

Wow. The Last Days of Disco remains a total disappointment. What a waste.

post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 01:27 (sixteen years ago)

i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels that way...

Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 01:27 (sixteen years ago)

It's so fucking leaden. The Scrooge McDuck shit is the worst thing he's ever written.

post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 01:28 (sixteen years ago)

i love last days of disco so much.

scott seward, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:09 (sixteen years ago)

such a great movie.

scott seward, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:09 (sixteen years ago)

oh, scott...let's go dancing.

post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:10 (sixteen years ago)

i only dance to latin freestyle and hi-nrg. just so you know. but you are in florida, no? that shouldn't be a problem there!

scott seward, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:23 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, pretty sure I'll never see a Walt Stillman film.

irreconcilable aesthetic criteria (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:45 (sixteen years ago)

yeah

Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:45 (sixteen years ago)

by far my favorite of his films. Partly bcz there isn't much disco in it.

Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:54 (sixteen years ago)

as opposed to his other disco-packed dancefloor romps?

Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

Screening at Lincoln Center on Thursday, with Stillman there.

Poxy Fule Of Kryptonite (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

There's plenty of disco in TLDOD -- he just doesn't have an ear for it or a sense of what to do with the damn tunes.

post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:59 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it's not really about disco. hate to break it to you!

scott seward, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 03:02 (sixteen years ago)


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