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03/07/2006 Archived Entry: "Where is Whit Stillman?"

One of my favorite directors, Whit Stillman of Metropolitan fame, hasn't made a movie since The Last Days of Disco. Where did he go and what has he been up to? Josh Horowitz of Better Than Fudge has interviewed him recently.

JH: The time period in Metropolitan is never specified and I think that's helped the movie not become dated over the years.
WS: Mostly it was that we had no alternative. It was supposed to be in a different period but we really couldn't create one. So we just tried to exclude wherever we could things that seemed terribly up to date. Also I think when a period is absolutely specified and locked in a film it sometimes creates an artificial airless feeling. In Disco we were criticized. People presumed that the way people looked in the early 80s was very different from the way they looked in the film but I went through fashion magazines and tried to find a picture that would justify everything I wanted to do.

Posted by N.Gear @ 03/15/2006 09:57 PM PST