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
man i remember reading some interview forever ago w/ whit stillman where talking about the cast of metropolitan he mentioned that one of the cast members was not doing so well and for some reason i just assumed it was tom townshend. so glad he turned out ok! somehow 'found god, moved to canada' is the perfect american graffiti/hot for teacher epilogue. maybe whitman was making some veiled jibe at mind of the married man.
last days of disco is my fave i think (it's got disco) but metropolitan is definitely always going to be the one that meant most to me. huge movie for me in high school, i'm almost afraid to revisit it now. love it when audrey rouget pops up in last days and kate beckinsale talking about her. love you forever ms. farina!
― balls, Monday, 22 November 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa! thanks for the link i watched the whole damn thing.
also, JB, dude didn't move to Canada, that was a home for him (I always wondered how an UWSider had that Canadian accent going on).
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 November 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
is that the mom from that 70s show he's talking with?
― balls, Monday, 22 November 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH98-0MNsN8&feature=player_embedded
― balls, Monday, 22 November 2010 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Eigeman is looking like Floyd Landis lol
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 November 2010 05:58 (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."
I saw a great interview with a poet where the interviewer said, "This is not a get-rich-quick field, is it." To which the poet replied, "It's not a get-rich-slow field, either." Amazing for example that Kurosawa took ten years to make "Ran" and "Kagemusha" (with five year gaps between each) because he couldn't get funding for them... this must have been twenty years after "Seven Samurai"...
― jeevves, Monday, 22 November 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i know this is heresy, mayhaps, but 'Metropolitan' was...like...ugh. i can't watch it at all. 'LDOD,' on the other hand, is probably in my top 20 of the 90s.
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Monday, 22 November 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Stillman's Criterion top 10.
― An Artily Shot Sesame Street (Eazy), Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i've never seen big deal on madonna street. or black orpheus.
― scott seward, Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
man notorious is the best thing ever
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
heh now i see Lombard as the Chloe Sevigny of My Man Godfrey.
― Ludo, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that BJ she gives William Powell at the end of the movie is epic.
― scott seward, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
"cast of archetypal beauty" otm on notorious
― horseshoe, Friday, 28 January 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I can watch My Man Godfrey anytime anyplace.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 January 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ 'my gosh it's long'
― Lamp, Friday, 28 January 2011 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm:
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Oscar nominated Whit Stillman’s latest film Violet Wister's DAMSELS IN DISTRESS worldwide. Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer produced alongside Stillman, who also wrote the screenplay.The film stars Greta Gerwig (GREENBERG, upcoming ARTHUR remake), Adam Brody (THE ROMANTICS, upcoming SCREAM 4) and Analeigh Tipton (CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE with Steve Carrell, America’s Next Top Model).Violet Wister's DAMSELS IN DISTRESS is a comedy that follows a trio of beautiful girls who set out to revolutionize life at a grungy East Coast university – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good scent and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men --including slick Charlie (Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen)—who threaten the girls’ friendship and sanity.
The film stars Greta Gerwig (GREENBERG, upcoming ARTHUR remake), Adam Brody (THE ROMANTICS, upcoming SCREAM 4) and Analeigh Tipton (CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE with Steve Carrell, America’s Next Top Model).
Violet Wister's DAMSELS IN DISTRESS is a comedy that follows a trio of beautiful girls who set out to revolutionize life at a grungy East Coast university – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good scent and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men --including slick Charlie (Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen)—who threaten the girls’ friendship and sanity.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like an updated version of The Group.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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