Damsels premiering at closing night of Venice Film Fest.
― First it's the schwa, but then what? (Eazy), Friday, 29 July 2011 06:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/newsandviews/festivals/blog/venice-2011-09-10-eccentricities-american-college-life.php
i only skimmed, to avoid plot, but s&s seems to be digging it
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Monday, 12 September 2011 10:33 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zh8oEU3DdE
― buzza, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
i wanna see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXNEHcyuu80
― buzza, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
is that..... a person of color?!?!?!?
― max, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
i went to a party for this but did not watch it
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
i wanted to stay true to the spirit of metropolitan
he still wants to make his Jamaica movie at some point, too
xxp
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
Do people talk like that?
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
nah, people talk like Henry James characters.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
very excited/nervous about this
― balls, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
I like Whit Stillman, but they're speaking even more manneredly than Henry James characters. Here's a random James excerpt:
If there was something serious in Nanda and something blank in their companion, there was, superficially at least, nothing in Mr. Mitchett but his usual flush of gaiety. "Did she really send you off this way alone?" Then while the girl's face met his own with the clear confession of it: "Isn't she too splendid for anything?" he asked with immense enjoyment. "What do you suppose is her idea?" Nanda's eyes had now turned to Mr. Longdon, whom she fixed with her mild straightness; which led to Mitchy's carrying on and repeating the appeal. "Isn't Mrs. Brook charming? What do you suppose is her idea?"
I get that people talk about the kinds of things the Stillman characters are talking about, but the way they're saying them is also very unusual. It's been years since I've seen a Stillman movie. Maybe I've put up a wall since then.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
a very small subset of young ppl talk sort of like whit stillman characters irl imo iirc
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
sort of covering the fact that its usually less fluid and successful irl
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
the job of movies is not to depict the way people talk irl
― max, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Neither is it the job of novels.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
It's their job to accurately depict how well the people filmed or written about talk.
mumblecore
― buzza, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
person of colour but with ridiculously over-enunciated british toff vowels. he's prob trying to make a point here.
― jed_, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
adam brody's in this? of course. of course he is.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
no suzy but he totally tried to sleep w/ my friend last night it was p lol
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
anyway if i can get up early enough i think ill go see this tomorrow
!!!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
While doing press for his latest, which closes the Venice Film Festival this weekend, Stillman told Variety that he would still like to make the Jamaica-set “Dancing Mood.” We told you way back in 2008 that he was considering directing this drama, set within the church music scene of Kingston, Jamaica in the years 1962 to 1966, but it seemed as if he was focusing all his attention on ‘Damsels’ at that moment.
Stillman says that if he can’t, “set it up via traditional methods, we’ll use our own resources, do the film on a small budget.” Considering that he hasn’t directed a film since the Criterion-certified “Last Days of Disco” in 1998, we’re guessing that any potential financiers are probably waiting to see how Venice audiences respond to “Damsels” first. Frankly, it’s been so long, we’re hoping the picture, already scooped up by Sony Pictures Classics (a good sign) goes over like gangbusters. On the aforementioned Criterion disc, Stillman said work on “Dancing Mood” began during his discovery of reggae and dub during the making of ‘Disco.’ He called it a spiritual film, but one with fantastical elements as well, that could prove to be expensive. “So the script has angels and demons and it turns out I picked about the hardest film there is to get financed in the world,” he said.
― buzza, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
super-excited about Dancing Mood tbh i hope he gets to make it. even if it's terrible.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that sounds amazing
― runaway (Matt P), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:20 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
man or woman?
― jed_, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
no suzy lol
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
hear this ends in a musical number
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
xps well duh, but it's something people talk about and criticize when they talk about movies and books.
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
So I saw Damsels in Distress (2011). There's something about the fact that THIS is what we get after 13 years that makes it even funnier, like that bit in The Big Lebowski with the doodle, crossed with Jack Torrence's typewriter. You could find much fault with the the direction, and the film sure does sag badly in places. And ultimately I wanted more of Violet and a bit less of most of the others. But A++ for the laughs from all those things that had made Whit chuckle to himself and scribble down in a notepad. Bear in mind I found Be Kind Rewind the funniest film of 2008.
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
(I can confirm it ends in a musical number)
bring on the dancing mood
― conrad, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.whitstillman.org/2011/12/28/metropolitan-2/
― buzza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
No objection to the event at all but:
If you want something to remind you of Metropolitan‘s magic, James Wolcott has just written for Vanity Fair about it being “the movie that best captures the mood of Christmas”.
Yeah I'll take my A Christmas Story marathons, thanks.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
so did this come out? is it on dvd yet?
― akm, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
i think its only played festivals so far but iirc i got picked up for distro by sony classics so im sure itll be out in 10 months or so
― sulks (Lamp), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
― buzza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:56 (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
kinda unforgivable to tease METROPOLITAN II: ROGUE JUSTICE in the url when in fact it's a webstream of plain ol' metropolitan one
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
I loved the Wolcott post on Metropolitan actually -- and he's right that the movie's ideal during Xmas time.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
schlump otm, I was expecting Metropolitan 2: Revenge of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie.
― nickn, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
starring Rick Von Slonecker and an Uzi.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/damsels-in-distress,69310/
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
does he have family money? wtf does one do for 13 years? he's like the terrence malick of modest behaviorist indie filmmakers.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
i would imagine that would be fairly likely, all things consids
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
I am too young to have watched this guy's films in the 90s but the Damsels in Distress trailer is somehow intriguing to me despite the fact that I'm not sure exactly what it will be like
90% chance I'm interested because of Greta Gerwig's sad, sad eyes
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Hasn't he sometimes claimed he made some money doing various translations? Which would actually fit with the wealthy family thing.
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
does one actually make money doing translations?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
I suppose some do, but anecdotally I associate it with a certain strain of trustafarianism
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
I sort of doubt Dalkey Archive is paying the big bucks exactly
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
If only Momus were still around to fill us in on that.
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link