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Half true.
these girls could direct Barcelona 1994 but whit stillman couldnt make thjs tiktok
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Stolen shot at Grand Central - tried to suggest to police it was a "wedding video" but no go; got reverse angle at LIRR Penn station late evening.
@Criterion
METROPOLITAN (1990) Dir. Whit Stillman | Cinematography: John Thomas
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"Secretly?"
I hope Whit Stillman finds it in him to make another secretly reactionary movie that impressionable young people watch just because of the aesthetics and soundtrack
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Psychiatrist friends report wards full of young potheads - as well as older ones. Legalizing the commercialization of pot - which has proceeded virtually without debate or media scrutiny - might rank as the biggest public policy disaster of modern times.
Now that the public has learned about the pot use by the Highland Park, Uvalde and Parkland shooters, it's important to note that a number of violent crimes were caused by pot users, often while high on THC:
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The "dirty" cover art (a restaged strip poker scene) for
#Metropolitan1990
's video release. A Huge Letdown for teen renters looking for sexy entertainment - but a few later became fans.
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Worshipping the Golden Calf was *really bad*, prophets say. (Exodus 32:8). Worshipping the Golden Jackass seems Even Worse.
#CPAC2021
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This is especially funny as the films of the early 1930s are far faster & filled with narrative - great, complex stories in as little as 70 minutes - than anything since, especially not the bloated monsters of today.
#film
#cinema
#hollywood
#30sCinema
Nowhere is cultural acceleration more evident than in the movies. As Andrej Karpathy says, movies from before 1995 are slow, boring and naive.
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This man -- whom I later found to be an "indie" film director on the make at Cannes -- has it seems found distribution for his project! Such "indie" films get at most a week on obscure screens in NY + Los Angeles so pls consider supporting if near those cities.
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I now believe that this is the same man who in 1994 tried to upstage the debut of our film "Barcelona" at Cannes' prestigious Olympia cinema with a violent genre film he himself called pulpish & fictional. Still around at
#Cannes2019
!!
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The next time your family shares gifts, make it a "Jeanne Dielman*" holiday!
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"Has any role ever changed your thinking about life?" Isabelle Huppert: "No."
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*Criterion Channel Anniversary Giveaway*
Reply/QRT your fave Criterion cover art for a chance to win a 𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙢 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 of a Criterion cover of your choice and a 1-year subscription to Criterion Channel
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"Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness." Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, Washington Square, Philadelphia
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Gross
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Paul Schrader or anyone should be free to honestly take stock of a long career. What's odd is holding a grievance against those who don't back our films - which is pretty much everyone.
#film
Paul Schrader talking sh!t about the great Roger Corman on the day he died, has got to be one of the classless things a person has ever done.
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Sad to hear of Brooks Brothers' bankruptcy - when we sought their help on "Metropolitan" they did give us a shopping bag (pictured).
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This shot was "stolen" one evening at Grand Central Station. We were busted by cops after 1 or 2 takes. We told them we were doing a "wedding video" but they didn't buy it. Got the reverse angle at the LIRR station later that night.
#Film
METROPOLITAN (1990) Dir. Whit Stillman | Cinematography: John Thomas
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RIP Olivia de Havilland, a lovely presence on the Paris scene, sociable & accessible, often attending younger film people's parties & a devoted parishioner of the American Cathedral of Paris: "Gone With the Wind star Olivia de Havilland dies at 104"
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Not everyone liked "Metropolitan"
“I’m warning you, he’s a Fourierist!”: an oral history of Whit Stillman’s immortal Metropolitan on its 30th anniversary
@treytylor
@TandCmag
@WhitStillman
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FilmStruck was something rare; smug commentators saying "the films will just turn up elsewhere" ignore the unique curatorial contribution + dream
@Criterion
@TCM
combo
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Olivia de Havilland turns 103 today - decades of healthy Paris living...
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New
@TheRewatchables
— ‘The Last Days of Disco’ 25 years later w/ me and those yuppie scums
@ChrisRyan77
+
@SeanFennessey
.
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Finally cleaning the subway
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Kind of a "dark" film: This was the first scene shot, a week before principal photography. The alarm sounded: "They're taking down the Christmas trees on Park Avenue!" As this was our big "production value" we ran out to grab it.
#Metropolitan
@Criterion
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This man, who turned out to be an "indie" filmmaker, recently came to Paris to show us his film + wanted a photo together
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Sad
#Babar
news. R.I.P. Laurent de Brunhoff, 98. His books are exquisitely beautiful & charming.
Laurent de Brunhoff, author of Babar children’s books, dies at 98
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The idea of sending a career-ending tweet is so tempting but one would probably need a career.
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Happy New Year from the "Metropolitan" cast - dressed for tonight's party (add champagne)
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So if everything's fine and the country is 'opening up" shouldn't Paul
#Manafort
go back to prison?
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What might explain the Supreme Court's sharp turn toward an authoritarian view of the presidency? No WASPS.
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"The Last Days of Disco" 20th anni screenings coming up in London, New York + Los Angeles
@Criterion
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#TheLastDaysOfDisco
gets into the Club! Makes Brazilian cinephiles' Best Films of the '90s list. Via
@hipsterdas11h
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Trump: "Bye the way?" Why not bye-bye the way? Or just bye-bye
#NovemberRemember
Wow. President Bush provides an inspiring call for national unity so, naturally, the president who thrives on divisiveness has to lash out at him.
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Film posters do decorate a room. The Westerly Film Archive Labor Day Weekend Sale has a few
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So far excellent
@jaketapper
report on now
@cnn
Join
@JakeTapper
for a new CNN Special Report – Trump & The Law – After Impeachment. Tonight at 10 p.m. ET
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Thug father of a dishonest journalist.
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#WoodyAllen
hasn't committed any crimes except for Celebrity, Cassandra's Dream, Whatever Works & Statdust Memories.
#IBelieveMoses
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A great quality of Jane Austen's novels is the near total absence of physical descripton, so tedious in most fiction.
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James Madison House, Spruce Street, Philadelphia. C. 1796
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"Remembering" (ie imagining) when people used to dance in bars & cafes -- before the dancing wasteland of the Woodstock Era.
"We had to do rehearsals because the two guys, Sami Frey & Claude Brasseur, didn’t know how to dance. So we rehearsed that scene for a long time, and it became a long take in the film, 'Bande à part' (1964, Godard)"
--- Anna Karina
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Keep hearing about him - normally from nutcases
Friedrich Nietzsche died this date in 1900. Major influence on all modern thinkers. Genealogy of Morals, Apollonian and Dyonisian, ressentiment, eternal return. His grave in Röcken Churchyard.
#Nietzsche
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Variation on a familiar theme, from
#Nabokov
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Barking mad
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The great days of the mini-studios, both class act Castle Rock & fun, scrappy New Line Cinema. Good people too, as opposed to notorious Miramax. New Line also produced the Hudlins' House Party that year; it only distributed, didn't produce, Metropolitan & Ninja Turtles.
New Line Cinema was so cool, kind of like Miramax in the old days.
They had a combination of true indie / art type movies & more exploitation / genre firms.
For example in 1990 they produced both _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ & Whit Stillman’s _Metropolitan_
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But we don't need birthdays to celebrate Chris Eigeman! The "Chris Eigeman part" in
#Meteopolitan1990
#BarcelonaMovie
#MrJealousy
#TheLastDaysOfDisco
et alia!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Christopher Eigeman is an American actor and a film director. Eigeman is best known for roles in films written and directed by Whit Stillman: Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco.
Born: March 1, 1965 (age 55 years), Denver, Colorado, United States
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Um, well, thanks... but
#ClearlyCalvinist
Metropolitan is part of the Anglican patrimony. In my mind, Charlie is going to go on to have his "conscious act of faith," briefly become an Episcopal priest, and end up in the Ordinariate.
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Coming to realize that the "Man at Bar" character - played by Roger Kirby, Esq - was perhaps Metropolitan's true protagonist.
The best
#ChristmasMovie
ever, Gen X or otherwise.
Get thee to
@hbomax
for "Metropolitan."
And thank you,
@WhitStillman
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Yeah horwibble White People films (except Damsels) now availwibble as
@Criterion
boxed set
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That Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine near the Russian border is "relatively peaceful" seems particularly good news.
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Three cool facts about my school: We had a zoo; We loved Road Runner cartoons so much we got one as a world premiere; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated 10th grade twice & then was asked to leave (so perhaps never completed 10th grade - tho Harvard)
Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble’s A SHEEP IN THE DEEP (1962) was released on this date. 🐶
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RIP Peter Bogdanovich 1939-2022 - such a great film appreciator & creator, taught a lot of us where to look.
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@JBFlint
So strategic business decisions are made by the employees? A modicum of truth doesn't keep this line from being essentially mendacious.
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R.I.P. Matthew Perry (1969-2023)
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People on email still not taking full advantage of the subject line.
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The last "writing cafe" open on Christmas Eve. Great soundtrack.
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R.I.P. Roger Corman (1926-2024)
Roger Corman was part Moses, part PT Barnum, & arguably the most consequential film-maker of the past 100 years. I spoke with him Cannes ages ago, when he was a punkish 85-year-old with lots of movies still to make
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‘The Splendid Affinities’: Whit Stillman’s Next Project Will Be A Rom-Com Adventure TV Series Set In London, Paris & Madrid via
@ThePlaylist
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The movies with the best perspective on the rich are Preston Sturges' "The Palm Beach Story" (1942) & "The Lady Eve" (1941). For the darker view there's always Visconti's "The Damned" (1969).
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Stop making comedies Right Now! Love & Friendship "snares" the 100th spot in authoritative Hundred Top Comedies list.
@LandFMovie
(Free
@PrimeVideo
)
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This is not a television golden age if you like comedy - pretty much the opposite.
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Biden in a coma would be a better president than Trump on his "best" (?) day.
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"Metropolitan" (1990) streams in the "Health & Wellness" section
@Hulu
-- of course. "Tom, Audrey -- cha, cha, cha!"
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Christmas 2023 screenings:
-The Mercury, Adelaide Dec. 6
-Film Forum, NYC Dec. 11 Sold Out
-TIFF, Toronto, Dec. 14
-Dryden Theate, Rochester, Dec. 16
Whit Stillman's METROPOLITAN (1990) is a Christmas movie.
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The prestigious, world famous Bryn Mawr Film Institute where tonight's screening of "The Last Days of Disco" will soon begin.
@BMFI
Home viewing:
@Criterion
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Yes - still do. So should everyone.
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Strangely those who disagree with me always seem to fall into at least one of three broad categories: fascist, Stalinist or idiot.
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Dying is bad enough. Don't make it worse by saying they "passed."
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