Whatever happened to Whit Stillman?

Cafe Society
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Back in the nineties, he appeared to be an up-and-coming filmmaker. He wrote and directed Metropolitan in 1990, Barcelona in 1994, and The Last Days of Disco in 1998. None was a huge commercial success but none of them was a bomb and all three received mostly critical praise. Stillman also did a few other projects in the nineties. But then around 2000, he decided to move from America to France. And since then, he hasn’t produced any new work. Apparently when people ask him what he’s working on, he says he’s writing scripts.

Did something happen to him that made him decide to quit actively making movies?

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Maybe Chris Eigeman’s sneering pushed him over the edge.

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Stillman turned The Last Days of Disco into a novel in 2000. It’s pretty interesting – it’s from the point of view of one of the characters in the movie, talking about the events in the movie and explaining where the movie got things wrong.