Apparently Whit Stillman has a new film in the works! Good news indeed. It's 12 years since Last Days of the Disco and 21(!!) years since the wonderful Metropolitan. I'm a bit worried a the Gossip Girl sound of the synopsis, but it wight work. Stillman and Manhattan is a given combination. I wonder how Adam Brody will work in his film?

My pneumonia ( Read more... )

Oh, this evening  I re-watched Last Days of Disco for the fist time in quite a while, and everybody are so young in it (Robert Sean Leonard, I'm esp looking at you!). Apparently I am getting older.. And the last time I watched it must have been before I started to follow NCIS, since I'd completely missed that Michael Weatherly has a small but ( Read more... )

Hm, I was reading "Jane Austen in Hollywood" which is a fun collection of essays about yes, you guessed correctly, Jane Austen and all the film adaptations of her work that appeared at the end of the 1990s ( Read more... )