{"id":961,"date":"2008-08-19T02:12:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=961"},"modified":"2024-11-10T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:25:17","slug":"whatever-happened-to-whit-stillman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/19\/whatever-happened-to-whit-stillman\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To Whit Stillman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were like me, you saw\u00a0Metropolitan <\/strong>in the 1990s and fell in love. I couldn’t be further removed from the Manhattan debutante society Whit Stillman set the comedy\u00a0in, but the characters he wrote and the situations they dealt with really spoke to me.<\/p>\n

After seeing Metropolitan<\/strong>, I thought\u00a0I was witnessing the birth of\u00a0creator who would driving force in American cinema. Stillman’s follow-ups, Barcelona <\/strong>and The Last Days of Disco, <\/strong>seemed to confirm that. But then, Whit Stillman all but disappeared from the cinematic radar.<\/p>\n

To celebrate Metropolitan <\/strong>joining the free offerings from Hulu (Yes, you can see the movie, all of it, for free, here), Stillman was interviewed by IFC.com<\/a>. Click the link to find out where Stillman has been all these years, what projects he currently has in the works, and when–or if–The Last Days of Disco<\/strong> will ever be re-released on DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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