![]() ![]() Stillman produces portraits of sheltered WASP-y New Yorkers in their mid-twenties growing up on the Upper East Side (Indeed, in Metropolitan, the banishment of one of the characters to Manhattan’s Upper West Side is a source of great shame in the film). In his Academy Award-nominated film Metropolitan and in the later Last Days of Disco (recently released on Criterion), Mr. Stillman’s personality, but also eminently of his films. This social etiquette is not just a function of Mr. Stillman put his hand on the shoulder of a shy gentleman who gave a wave. ![]() This is Tara, she’s in the film.”Ī blond woman curtsied. “If I could grab a moment of your time, I’m Nicholas, I’m a reporter for the filmlinc blog–” Though it was hard to get a word in.īefore the screening of Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, I hoped to find the director, introduce myself and ask for a couple minutes after the screening for a “brief” interview.īut finding the chronicler of the so-called “urban haute-bougeoise” (his term), proved fairly easy: all I had to do was look for the man in the impeccable suit. It wasn’t hard to track down Whit Stillman. We are incredibly grateful to the readers and contributors who have helped us grow, and we hope you’ll join us in our new home for even more to come. Last year saw 431 posts from over 30 contributors, and over the next two weeks, we’ll be reprising some of our favorites, along with new content from the Film Society, and in advance of extensive daily coverage of the upcoming 47th Annual New York Film Festival. While keeping you connected to events at the Film Society, we’ve also sought out new voices, joined forces with institutions like the Brooklyn Museum on the Wikipedia Loves Art initiative, explored the implications of new technology on what we do, and filed more than a few interviews with critics, filmmakers and preservationists. We knew there’d be stories, we just had no idea there’d be so many, and that they would involve breaking the news of film installations in subway tunnels, decoding hipster-nihilism over sake with Armond White or taking a new look at a familiar child star during the New York Film Festival.īut the filmlinc blog has gone all those places, and many more, over the past twelve months. We’re talking about a 40-year-old organization here, the Upper West Side’s haven for die-hard film fans, and the host to many a filmmaker, from those just starting out to the celebrated recipients of our annual Chaplin Award. ![]()
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