Whit Stillman has a new movie.
It’s been 13 years since The Last Days of Disco, but it’s finally (almost) here. Damsels In Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody will be the closing film at the Venice Film Festival. Good, because we’re tired of quoting Metropolitan-Barcelona-The Last Days of Disco.
Greta Gerwig starred in Greenberg by Noah Baumbach who cribs openly from the Stillman oeuvre and borrowed Christopher Eigeman so it’s only fair.
Read Why the world still needs Whit Stillman in The Atlantic.
Need to sound clever? Memorize Whit Stillman’s Barcelona.
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July 29th, 2011 at 11:32
YES! Loved Metropolitan and Barcelona; skipped Last Days of Disco because, well, disco (though I might re-watch because of La Chloe) – so I’d really like to see how this turns out.
July 29th, 2011 at 19:56
hmmm… hambuguesas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLMsavNEZ1U
July 30th, 2011 at 00:37
Greta sure looks like a young Chloe in that photo.
The Criterion Collection re-released The Last Days of Disco not too long ago on DVD. It was also the first time I ever got to see the film, missing it in the theatrical run. I didn’t have a car at the time to drive to the only theater in Oklahoma City that screened it.
Anyway, Whit Stillman had this way of making references to transition in LDD that affected people. The music was changing, the political and social climate also influenced pop culture and the way men and women related to each other. These changes weren’t filtered through rose-colored tints either. Little did the characters know that they would also later be affected by Reaganomics, AIDS in an epidemic level, and the end of the cold war. It would’ve been interesting to see what those characters have been up to these days. It was a very enjoyable movie.