Whit Stillman
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Whit Stillman
@WhitStillman
Filmmaker, Novelist?
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- Great idea! Who's in?Since The Great Gatsby is back in the news, a reminder, first, that, now that it's in the public domain, there should be no obstacle to Whit Stillman making, at long last, a great movie of it.
- RFK Jr. repeated 10th Grade at our school, then was asked to leave, so doubtfully completed it. But Harvard, where he was a prominent drug dealer & jerk. And - downhill from there.Absolutely disgusting and insane. The @nypost obtained video from a recent RFK Jr. event where he suggested COVID is a Chinese bioweapon “ethnically targeted” to “attack Caucasians and Black people” and to spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people. He then falsely claimed the
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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
- Oh I don't know. It's very talky & you'll hate the characters. Nothing happens.
GIF - "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 youtube.com/watch?v=73RYir…
- 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: poppot.org/2021/03/23/wee…
- Replying to @dieworkwearUp until about the 1990s, Brooks Brothers' button-down shirts were hardly ever discounted. They didn't need to—they were a popular perennial. Plus, their customers wore their oxford shirts until the collars frayed. Ppl paid full price for clothes they knew they'd wear forever.
- 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 #30sCinemaNowhere 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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