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@WhitStillman

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Filmmaker, Novelist?

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@WhitStillman
Whit Stillman
4 years
I'd been fearing just this.
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Whit Stillman
2 years
Half true.
these girls could direct Barcelona 1994 but whit stillman couldnt make thjs tiktok
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5 years
Unidentified man (with woman guest) blocks photo of me at #Cannes2019
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9 months
"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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@WhitStillman
Whit Stillman
2 years
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.
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Parents Opposed to Pot
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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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@WhitStillman
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8 months
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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@shinglest
Richard Mills
8 months
@davidcinema @WhitStillman ’s “Metropolitan.”
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3 months
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
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Tsarathustra
3 months
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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Whit Stillman
3 years
Worshipping the Golden Calf was *really bad*, prophets say. (Exodus 32:8). Worshipping the Golden Jackass seems Even Worse. #CPAC2021
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@WhitStillman
Whit Stillman
5 years
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.
@WhitStillman
Whit Stillman
5 years
Unidentified man (with woman guest) blocks photo of me at #Cannes2019
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9 years
The 18th Century just keeps getting better & better.
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Whit Stillman
5 years
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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Whit Stillman
5 years
Unidentified man (with woman guest) blocks photo of me at #Cannes2019
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3 months
The next time your family shares gifts, make it a "Jeanne Dielman*" holiday!
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@WhitStillman
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10 days
"Has any role ever changed your thinking about life?" Isabelle Huppert: "No."
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bren not strong enough
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISABELLE HUPPERT
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@Posteritati
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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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2 years
"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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1 year
Uh-oh, they're on to him.
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2 years
Evergreen tweet
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@WhitStillman
Whit Stillman
5 years
Wha?
@Lin_Manuel
Lin-Manuel Miranda
13 years
"I LOVE WOODY ALLEN BUT I HATE WHIT STILLMAN!" #LyricsDMXneverwrote
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@WhitStillman
Whit Stillman
6 years
Gross
@sundancefest
Sundance Film Festival
6 years
When did you fall in love with cinema?
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Whit Stillman
3 months
Still wanting to make more films...
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9 months
The Vineyards of #Jura , France, from the Chateau d'Arlay
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Whit Stillman
4 years
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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Whit Stillman
4 years
So stupid. The great thing in cinema is the cut. #montage
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Whit Stillman
4 years
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
@secondsofcinema
Seconds of Cinema
8 years
METROPOLITAN (1990) Dir. Whit Stillman | Cinematography: John Thomas
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4 years
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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Whit Stillman
4 months
Let's not hear any more about "AI" in 2024.
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Whit Stillman
4 years
Not everyone liked "Metropolitan"
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@erikmaza
Erik Maza
4 years
“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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Whit Stillman
6 years
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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Whit Stillman
1 year
Agree.
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Male Ally Wearing "Directed By Elaine May" T-Shirt
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Whit Stillman’s list is so good.
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5 years
Olivia de Havilland turns 103 today - decades of healthy Paris living...
Happy Birthday beautiful Olivia! #OliviadeHavilland 🎈
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Whit Stillman
7 months
Finally cleaning the subway
@wynterdreammtv
Lil Wyn ✩
7 months
New York ! This is insane 🤦🏾‍♀️ #flooding
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@BillSimmons
Bill Simmons
1 year
New @TheRewatchables — ‘The Last Days of Disco’ 25 years later w/ me and those yuppie scums @ChrisRyan77 + @SeanFennessey .
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5 years
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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Mark W.
5 years
Metropolitan [1990] by Whit Stillman
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1 year
Happy "Orgy" Week
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4 years
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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Unidentified man (with woman guest) blocks photo of me at #Cannes2019
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Disco probably will die.
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Sad #Babar news. R.I.P. Laurent de Brunhoff, 98. His books are exquisitely beautiful & charming.
@GuardianBooks
Guardian Books
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Laurent de Brunhoff, author of Babar children’s books, dies at 98
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6 years
The idea of sending a career-ending tweet is so tempting but one would probably need a career.
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1 year
#Barcelona Tourist Guide
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The new #WoodyAllen film #CoupDeChance opens in France Sept. 27th. Great poster.
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3 years
Happy New Year from the "Metropolitan" cast - dressed for tonight's party (add champagne)
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trinity
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metropolitan (1990), dir. @WhitStillman
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4 years
So if everything's fine and the country is 'opening up" shouldn't Paul #Manafort go back to prison?
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Whit Stillman
6 years
"The Last Days of Disco" 20th anni screenings coming up in London, New York + Los Angeles @Criterion
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Whit Stillman
4 years
Trump: "Bye the way?" Why not bye-bye the way? Or just bye-bye #NovemberRemember
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@michaelpfreeman
Michael Freeman
4 years
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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3 years
#TheLastDaysOfDisco gets into the Club! Makes Brazilian cinephiles' Best Films of the '90s list. Via @hipsterdas11h
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3 years
23. Os Últimos Embalos da Disco (The Last Days of Disco, 1998), Whit Stillman. 344,5 pontos.
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3 years
Life isn't worth living without Pepé Le Pew.
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3 years
Fair enough. It really gets going around 50 min in, though. #BacelonaMovie
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8 months
Film posters do decorate a room. The Westerly Film Archive Labor Day Weekend Sale has a few
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Whit Stillman
4 years
So far excellent @jaketapper report on now @cnn
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CNN
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Join @JakeTapper for a new CNN Special Report – Trump & The Law – After Impeachment. Tonight at 10 p.m. ET
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1 year
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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#WoodyAllen hasn't committed any crimes except for Celebrity, Cassandra's Dream, Whatever Works & Statdust Memories. #IBelieveMoses
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7 years
Metropolitan was the first one I saw.
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Whit Stillman
2 years
James Madison House, Spruce Street, Philadelphia. C. 1796
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Rick Von Sloneker in trouble again.
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"Remembering" (ie imagining) when people used to dance in bars & cafes -- before the dancing wasteland of the Woodstock Era.
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"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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Barking mad
@nypost
New York Post
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I’m an ‘ecosexual’ — I’ve fallen in love with an oak tree
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Variation on a familiar theme, from #Nabokov 's discarded notes: "Student explains that when reading a novel he likes to skip passages 'so as to get his own idea about the book & not be influenced by the author.'"
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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.
@CWingUexkull
Charles Wing-Uexküll
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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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Whit Stillman
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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!
@SpacewomanR
spacewoman reporter
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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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3 years
#Metropolitan1990 comes to primetime @TCM Sunday, May 16th! Be there & be square.
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2 years
That Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine near the Russian border is "relatively peaceful" seems particularly good news.
@danriversitv
Dan Rivers
2 years
Quick update from Kharkiv
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Whit Stillman
5 months
Um, well, thanks... but #ClearlyCalvinist
@AndrewPetiprin
Andrew Petiprin
5 months
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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3 years
"Sag Harbor, Labor Day" #TheLastDaysOfDisco prequel @Showtime @Criterion
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The last "writing cafe" open on Christmas Eve. Great soundtrack.
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2 years
People on email still not taking full advantage of the subject line.
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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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6 years
At the original @dunkindonuts location Quincy, Mass.
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Biden in a coma would be a better president than Trump on his "best" (?) day.
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2 years
#Jura , France
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Whit Stillman
11 months
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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Whit Stillman
1 year
Coming to realize that the "Man at Bar" character - played by Roger Kirby, Esq - was perhaps Metropolitan's true protagonist.
@JoyBergmann
Joy Bergmann
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The best #ChristmasMovie ever, Gen X or otherwise. Get thee to @hbomax for "Metropolitan." And thank you, @WhitStillman .
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Whit Stillman
4 years
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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Whit Stillman
4 years
"Metropolitan" (1990) streams in the "Health & Wellness" section @Hulu -- of course. "Tom, Audrey -- cha, cha, cha!"
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Whit Stillman
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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
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Bill Geerhart
1 year
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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Whit Stillman
2 years
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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Whit Stillman
3 years
Agree.
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3 years
Yes - still do. So should everyone.
@oldlife
D G Hart
3 years
did @WhitStillman dress like this? (the men)
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Paris Sky
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Dying is bad enough. Don't make it worse by saying they "passed."
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Whit Stillman
7 years
Um, no. Paul Manafort "of only brief and slight importance?" He was key to Trump's nomination & removed Ukraine from platform. @20committee
@yaffaesque
Joshua Yaffa
7 years
Rule of thumb: before hyperventilating while reading Russian-spy-related news, always consider @MarkGaleotti :
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2 years
Appreciate the present, things will likely get worse.
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5 months
Muppet Last Days of Disco
@RyanShinkel
Ryan Shinkel
5 months
@amsacramone One could make a @WhitStillman joke: maybe something smart about yuppies arguing over a disney movie to sublimate their own love triangle, or maybe something terse & silly about the unsung eroticism of waterfowl, or maybe something sly that looks like it lacks a plot but finishes…
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Whit Stillman
2 years
Islamic Chechen strongman Kadyrov mobilizes troops for Ukraine invasion with jihadist hymn. Part of Putin's "Grand Plan to Save Christendom," as some of his Western acolytes would have it?
@SimNasr
Wassim Nasr
2 years
#Russie #Tch étchénie Kadyrov mobilisant ses hommes, avec l’hymne jihadiste « Nahnou Ahfad al-Mouthana Ayouha al-Tarikh Oudna », Nous sommes les descendants de Mouthana [un compagnon du prophète] Ô Histoire nous voilà de retour, version russophone-arabe, pour combattre en #Ukraine
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Whit Stillman
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How very sad + shocking to learn of Adam Schlesinger's death. Adam was a brilliant, perfectionist composer + producer who created brilliant music for #DamselsInDistress that was delightful + funny.
@dlerer
Diego Lerer
4 years
Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne Songwriter, Dies at 52 Due to Coronavirus
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Whit Stillman
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Sad times. The former "'21 Club" last night without its jockeys & green uniformed doorman from #Metropolitan1990 days.
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