Whit Stillman's "The Last Days of Disco" on DVD

I found out tonight that Whit Stillman's third movie, The Last Days of Disco, is finally being rereleased on DVD. If you are familiar with this movie then you already know that it has been out of print for some time, resulting in huge mark-ups ($100+ per DVD) on Amazon.com and Ebay for versions that will play on US DVD players. It appears that it will be released by The Criterion Collection and is available for pre-order on Amazon right now. You'll have to be patient, though, since the release date isn't until August 25th of this year. Having read the book last year (which is basically a novelized version of the movie script) but having never seen the movie, I am quite excited about this. Awesome.

"Metropolitan" on Hulu

I received a peculiar, though appreciated, email the other day from someone at IFC (the Independent Film Channel). Apparently they had seen my previous blog posts on Whit Stillman and pointed out to me that IFC recently published an interview with Whit Stillman in which he talks about some new projects that he has been working on, as well as the recent addition of Metropolitan to Hulu.com. The interview can be found here.

In case you aren't familiar with Hulu, it is website where you can stream a good number of television shows and movies for free. It is really a pretty good website, and now that Metropolitan can be watched on demand, for free, I'd say it's really gotten a whole lot better. Click here to go watch Metropolitan now.

More Whit Stillman...

Just because I can't get enough...scenes from Metropolitan, faithfully compiled by some benevolent person on Youtube.

Essay on Whit Stillman's movies

"Radical Decency: the Films of Whit Stillman"

Interesting article that analyzes some of the major themes of Stillman's in his three movies. Pretty interesting read. Sort of makes me want to order the book "Doomed Bourgeois in Love"...