My friend went to a fancy banquet and was seated next to him, didn't even know who he was. (Later she was like, "So this guy is...do people know him? I mean his movies? Should I watch them?" So cute.) I think he gave her the script to read(?!?!?).
― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Friday, 18 June 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
He is very approachable and friendly; I didn't find him at all standoffish. BUT I HAVE LOST HIS EMAIL ADDRESS. Gah.
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Friday, 18 June 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yay!
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 June 2010 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, fuck you: srsly.
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Friday, 18 June 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I think she might have been saying yay! about a new Whit Stillman movie just FYI
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 June 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Suzy, I think you've confused horseshoe with someone else. No way she would be yay-ing about you losing an email, and I get the impression that's what you responded to.
― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Friday, 18 June 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I am suspicious of this as a story idea, but still, Whit Stillman, so yay.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 18 June 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
OK fine, sorry - retracted, but HEY the value of x-post, huh?
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Friday, 18 June 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
oh sorry suzy, yeah, i was just happy about the movie! that was dumb of me.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 June 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
suzy surely u now someone who knows him though
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 June 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeahhhhh but I always manaña asking for friends to resubmit contact details. 'Lost' in this case means on the hard drive I last saw at a friend's place five years ago.
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Friday, 18 June 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
New interview!
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I like how a couple of the comments are essentially saying "Hey this doesn't have anything to do with theocons!"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 November 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
great interview! i know stuff but i'm not allowed to talk. about the movie. can't wait!
― scott seward, Friday, 19 November 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
You're the newest star! We always knew.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 November 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Driver...follow that pedestrian.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 November 2010 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:20 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
omg!
― horseshoe, Friday, 19 November 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish i was in it. i am sworn to secrecy though. if you read this thread you would be able to figure out why. anyway, again, can't wait!
― scott seward, Friday, 19 November 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
okay i read the thread and omg!
― horseshoe, Friday, 19 November 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
love that interview
excited!
― just sayin, Friday, 19 November 2010 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"I like how a couple of the comments are essentially saying "Hey this doesn't have anything to do with theocons!"
Yeah, some of the comments are truly weird - and I admit I read First Things often.Anyway, very happy to see Stillman back at work.
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 19 November 2010 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link
“And light,” she says. “Everyone always says you’re always running out of light.”
“For my past films, we were always running out of night.”
Love it. Want to watch TLDOD again right now. In fact I might just do that. Fuck the ironing.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 19 November 2010 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
So depressing though how much difficulty he has had getting the money together to make another film, and also confused as to how he actually has made a living over the last 12 years. Living in Paris isn't cheap.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 19 November 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was just wondering how he affords his lifestyle
― just sayin, Friday, 19 November 2010 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
At one point he mentions doing some adverts in Jamaica for a chocloate company. Perhaps they paid really well?
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 19 November 2010 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, meant Jakarta (but he travlled to Jamaica).
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 19 November 2010 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
The mundane reasons are that you can actually live here better, cheaper than in New York. I got priced out of New York, I lost my loft in Soho and schools were getting very expensive and actually the situation here is much better in the macro scale. I think when people go to cafés they think it’s all very expensive, but when you’re paying tuitions and rent it’s much cheaper. The more you get.
but yeah sort of wonder how he affords tuitions and rent and everything else. suppose he had that last days of disco novel published ten years ago?
― conrad, Friday, 19 November 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
v excited about a new w stillman movie
85 Minutes with Whit Stillman
― Gukbe, Monday, 22 November 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
watching metropolitan again recently, it kind of amazed me how rough so much of the acting and filmmaking was... still charming though.
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ had same reaction when i *rescreened* it year or so ago
― buzza, Monday, 22 November 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, for a movie that's so dialogue-driven, the fact that only one actor really "came out of it" into any kind of career (eigeman), kinda says something
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166221/
:/
taylor nichols has done all right, but yeah
― horseshoe, Monday, 22 November 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
slox: http://www.queenswaycathedral.com/pastoralteam.html
is that near you?
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
it looks like it's in toronto?
i'm not sure i 'get it'
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
take another looky
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa is that
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he'd be up for a "where are they now?". i'd read it.
dude sounds like he's got a pretty interesting life from what it looks like
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
he skydived!
how did you find that??
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Allison Rutledge-Parisi is an attorney, the chief administrative officer for Kaplan, Inc., and a former actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Jane Clark in Whit Stillman's critically acclaimed film Metropolitan (1990).
bizarre
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.google.com/search?&q=toronto+pastor+clements
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
haha ya but how did you find out he was a toronto pastor??!
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Carolyn Farina is so cute in metropolitan, wasn't she like a sales girl at macy's or something when she got the part?
― buzza, Monday, 22 November 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah she's great in it imo
― horseshoe, Monday, 22 November 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh haha, on his imdb page msg board you linked, someone said he became quickly disenfranchised with the entertainment industry and has been a pastor in toronto for almost 20 years.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
ahhhhhhhh
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
stillman's commentary where he talks about the casting process makes me forgive the roughness (amateurism?) of the cast and performances, i think he was aiming for talent with less experience for better or worse. it's a crazy first film, almost a dare that held up on my last ~*rescreen*~.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 November 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uBlj1OBZg
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of intriguing interview... on a canadian christian tv show
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 22 November 2010 05:02 (thirteen years ago) link