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Featuring interviews with Romulus Linney, 2 Black 2 Strong, Jessica Hagedorn, Phil Hartman, Tod Wizon, Lari Pittman, Terrance Simien, Gran Fury, Raul Ruiz, Yuri Lyubimov, and Whit Stillman.

You've probably already heard that Whit Stillman, novelist and director of films like Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco, has adapted Jane Austen's unfinished novella, Lady Susan, for the big screen as Love & Friendship, with Kate Beckinsale in the title role.

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At its worst, Baumbach's dialogue suggests some of the smart - ass dandyism of writer - director Whit Stillman (an impression fostered by the presence of Chris Eigeman, who starred in both of Stillman's features, Metropolitan and Barcelona).

Directed by Stephen Frears, this is the kind of sophisticated comedy that's rarely seen these days outside of the movies of Woody Allen and Whit Stillman.

Although Whit Stillman's beautiful but draggy film adaptation of the novella «Lady Susan» bursts with the frilly hats, passionate sighs and the gorgeous ball gowns that we fondly associate with the Regency era, money is the real aphrodisiac in this drawing room comedy.

The line - up is filled with movies from well - known directors: Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Ira Sachs (Little Men)-- perhaps Sundance should start a workshop for titling — Whit Stillman (Love and Friendship), Todd Solondz (Wiener - Dog), and Joshua Marston (Complete Unknown).

Includes Beasts of the Southern Wild, AIDS Documentaries, God Bless America and the films of Bobcat Goldthwait, Spaghetti Westerns, Whit Stillman, Werner Schroeter, HBO Films

The basics: Beckinsale's scheming, 40 - ish widow works all the angles as she tries to snag herself an eligible husband — as well as one for her daughter (Clark)-- in Whit Stillman's witty adaptation of Jane Austen's least - known work, the comic novella «Lady Susan.»

In this episode of the Curzon Film Podcast we don our finest corsets and cummerbunds for Whit Stillman's new Jane Austen adaptation «Love and Friendship».

With almost fourteen years lapsed since Whit Stillman's previous film Last Days of Disco closed out the trio of films that established him as mid -»90s indie auteur, his new film Damsels in Distress understandably attracts a great deal of anticipation, expectation, and perhaps hesitation.

Explains Whit Stillman, writer and director of The Last Days of Disco: «In trying to come up with a ten best list from the Criterion Collection I thought first of Trouble in Paradise and decided to go online to find the rest.

Thanks to Curzon Home Cinema you can also watch a free Q&A on the film this weekend (27 - 30th May) with star Kate Beckinsale and director Whit Stillman by clicking here and using the offer code AUSTEN

Terence Davies interviewed about Sunset Song, Chantal Akerman, Alan Clarke, Ben Wheatley's High - Rise and auteur dystopias, Roberto Minervini's The Other Side, Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Hong Sangsoo's Right Now, Wrong Then, Richard Quine's Strangers When We Meet, Juliet Berto in Duelle, Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier, Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship

Win a bundle of prizes to celebrate the release of the deliciously devious comedy of manners Love & Friendship, adapted by Whit Stillman from an early novel by Jane Austen

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Deliciously arch American filmmaker Whit Stillman proves a perfect match for this adaptation of a lesser - known Jane Austen novel

A screwball heroine with a lot of topspin, Greta Gerwig is at her best playing agitators and instigators — taking Lola Kirke under her erratic wing in Mistress America, creating a junior - miss version of Miss Jean Brodie in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, hatching a scheme to unload her pretentious married boyfriend back onto his wife in Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan, and driving Al Pacino out of what's left of his woolly mind in The Humbling.

The Whit Stillman directed title starring Kate Beckinsale, Steven Fry, Xavier Samuel and Chloë Sevigny bowed in four theaters its debut weekend grossing $ 133,513 ($ 33,378 average), going on to cume over $ 13.9 million through last weekend.

Previously announced projects for this Amazon pilot season include the Whit Stillman dramedy «The Cosmopolitans,» «Hand of God» with Ron Perlman, «Really,» created by and starring Jay Chandrasekhar, and the Mena Suvari thriller «Hysteria.»

Set in the «very early 1980s,» Whit Stillman's evocation of a dying Manhattan nightlife brings back the coke - laced dance palaces — including a club similar to Studio 54 — and the desperation that would have the party go on forever.

It joins a roster that so far includes fellow half - hour dramedy «The Cosmopolitans» from Whit Stillman and hourlong drama «Hand of God,» starring Ron Perlman («Sons of Anarchy») and helmed by Marc Forster («Monster's Ball,» «World War Z»), along with the recently announced Civil War - drama «Point of Honor «from «Lost» show runner Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

For those pining for the return Whit Stillman, the 1990s indie sensation whose trilogy of films, Metropolitan, Barcelona and Last Days of Disco carved out a lasting auteur niche in a decade full of American indie - breakouts, his first film in 13 years technically meets that basic criteria — he has made a film — but it is not exactly what the faithful might expect.

Director Whit Stillman banned swearing from the set of his latest film, according to actress Greta Gerwig.The actress starred with Adam Brody in...

Damsels in Distress - Though not as clever as it thinks it is, Whit Stillman's quirky college comedy has its appeal.

Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman, 2016) Based on Jane Austen's novel, «Lady Susan Vernon», Kate Beckinsale (playing Lady Susan) leads a rather large cast of characters as they lounge over the manicured lawns of rural countryside and London drawing rooms.

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Writer / Director Whit Stillman, whose 1990s trilogy of American socialite foibles — Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco — was a major influence in the 1990s indie world (Noah Baumbach, for instance) has not made a film for more than a dozen years.

Plaza will also be seen in Sony Pictures Classics» Damsels in Distress, director Whit Stillman's first film since 1998's The Last Days of Disco.

Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman's first film in over a decade, is (in the words of Robert Horton) «a blissful movie - real place that sounds and looks not quite like the one we live in.

She starred in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, playing one of the director's singular hyper - articulate moralists, and in Lola Versus, another movie that capitalized on Gerwig's penchant for beguiling, wayward messes.

Metropolitan Writer - director Whit Stillman's charming 1990 feature debut about a chatty group of New York debutantes and their escorts, a group one of the characters dubs the UHBs (the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie), was an unlikely indie hit amid early «90s...

Whit Stillman is a director fascinated by the idea of people gladly displaced from their own time: foppish debutantes abide by romantic era courting rituals in»90s Manhattan in Metropolitan; a good old limbo contest trumps modern jazz in Barcelona; and lovers of disco music band together while boxes of wax platters are torched at baseball games in The Last Days of Disco.

Notable mentions A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2016) Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier, 2016) Love and Friendship (Whit Stillman, 2016) The Revenant (Alejandro G. Inarritu, 2016)

Petzold, Gomes, Mike Leigh and Whit Stillman were among guests honoured with retrospectives this year, as was Polish director Małgozarta Szumowska.

Arrival — Eric Heisserer Lion — Luke Davies Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman Moonlight — Barry Jenkins Nocturnal Animals — Tom Ford

Whit Stillman was the recipient of the festival's Indie Star Award, celebrating American Independent filmmakers, and a retrospective of his work was screened throughout the festival.

Whit Stillman's show is The Cosmopolitans, which «follows a group of young American expatriates in Paris who are searching for love and friendship in a foreign city.»

-LSB-...] But there's a unique kind of derision that attaches to Coppola, a level of personal affront that never seems to fall on Whit Stillman or Noah Baumbach.

Whit Stillman took early Jane Austen out for a date, and it worked out for both very nicely.

Love & Friendship Whit Stillman's latest is based on an unpublished Jane Austen story (Artificial Eye in the UK has snapped up British theatrical rights.)

Briefly: Amazon's next round of pilots includes a show from Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco) and one directed by Marc Forster (World War Z, Quantum of Solace).

Give the eloquent neurotic intellectual something that will last longer than a restaurant gift card, with this copy of the Whit Stillman Criterion trilogy set, which puts the writer / director's first three films in the same box.

She received raves earlier this year in Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress.

Boasting a direct approval from Stillman and digital transfers of each film that he supervised, «A Whit Stillman Trilogy» offers an in - depth look at one of the 90s» most unusual film series, albeit with lots of chatter about capitalism and philosophy.

I imagine there was a more comprehensible first draft and then writer / director Whit Stillman («The Last Days of Disco») pulled the thesaurus off the shelf and went to work.

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Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigney reuniting with Whit Stillman for Lady Susan (THR).

Hmm, if I hate Whit Stillman, does that mean I'll like this movie?