Whatever happened to Whit Stillman?

no.

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

and no!

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

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

"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

sorry - cut off the end of that quote:

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

Imagine him and Wes Anderson doing their version of Grindhouse.

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.

Imagine him and Wes Anderson doing their version of Grindhouse

Awesome - someone get them a meeting.

Imagine him and Wes Anderson doing their version of Grindhouse.

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

lol!

[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?

See, I've already waited too long

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.

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.

In fact - book this clown.

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

Criterion Last Days of Disco

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

NOW NOW MOVE SOLDIER!!!

u can watch this on hulu u know

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

Woot!

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

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

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

i love last days of disco so much.

such a great movie.

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

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!

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

yeah

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

as opposed to his other disco-packed dancefloor romps?

Screening at Lincoln Center on Thursday, with Stillman there.

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.

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

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

― irreconcilable aesthetic criteria (Eric H.), Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:45 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah

― Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:45 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, pretty sure I'll never see another film again in my entire life.

i wish there was a last days of disco t.v. show i could watch every week. forever. until i die. gilmore girls was as close as i ever came. (omg i can't wait to get first season of thirtysomething on dvd!!!! i told maria to get it for my birthday. so, i have to wait until october. oh sweet agony of waiting...)

just impulse-bought the criterion edition last night. i only have a vhs copy currently...

Huh. Well, Last Days of Disco was the first one I saw (unless you count half of Metropolitan on PBS, which I kind of don't), and I was definitely into it, but it's possible it was just that Halcyon Summer of Indie Films (1998) that found me running to the cinema to see Buffalo 66 and The Opposite of Sex and Love! Valour! Compassion! and Whatever and Pecker and Slums of Beverly Hills and Henry Fool and Your Friends and Neighbors and High Art and The Spanish Prisoner. So, you know...

well, he's back and the US and not really doing much
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-25/film/whit-stillman-speaks-eleven-years-after-his-last-film/

yeah there's really no disco vibe at all in Last Days, but i like the film. now Barcelona, that one was boring and dissapointing (Metropolitan easily being his best)