Wes Anderson Films

[J. Garbage]

I like Whit Stillman!  Last Days of Disco taught me that rich people have feelings too.  No kidding.  I think Barcelona might be my favorite.

[Bryan]

the self-pitying ponces in Tennenbaums and Darjeeling I can't really root for in the same way; maybe it's because they're all rich?

I like Whit Stillman!  Last Days of Disco taught me that rich people have feelings too.

Get your stories straight, Comrade Garbage.

(I love Barcelona, too.)

[Martin]

No one ever wants to talk about Whit Stillman.











Even, presumably, Whit Stillman.

Hey, Last Days of Disco is out on Criterion in August.

(I always identified with the dude that was seriously bummed out that disco was "over" at the same time he realized the other guys never liked it in the first place.)

[J. Garbage]

the self-pitying ponces in Tennenbaums and Darjeeling I can't really root for in the same way; maybe it's because they're all rich?

I like Whit Stillman!  Last Days of Disco taught me that rich people have feelings too.

Get your stories straight, Comrade Garbage.

(I love Barcelona, too.)

It's an ongoing unresolved thing.

[dave from knoxville]

Without Chris Eigemann (I think that's the name) I am not sure Whit Stillman would be as highly regarded. Why don't we ever see him?

[Bryan]

I don't know, Dave. I've often wondered the same thing. Eigeman(n?) was in Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming and Mr. Jealousy, too, but I think that's all I've seen him in. I wish he would come on the Best Show so I could ask him what else he's appeared in.

[buffcoat]

Without Chris Eigemann (I think that's the name) I am not sure Whit Stillman would be as highly regarded. Why don't we ever see him?

He was good on "It's Like, You Know," a great little ABC show with a terrible name and an utter inability to appeal to ABC's demographic.

[eastgrandforks]

He played a character in a later season of Gilmore Girls that was very much like the roles he had in Stillman films.

[Sarah]

Isn't he always exactly the same in everything?

[Bryan]

Isn't he always exactly the same in everything?

Yes: hilarious!

[icepants]

I like how this thread has turned into a booster for Chris Eigemann.  I think Kicking and Screaming (not the one with Will Ferrel) has to be one of the best Movies ever.  I'd put that movie against any Wes Anderson Movie.  Come on...

[yesno]

Kicking and Screaming is a great movie. So funny.

[todd]

Is Kicking and Screaming actually funny? Like, actually funny or Wes Anderson dry-funny?

[yesno]

It's dry funny.  Good dialog.  Light schmaltz.

[Bryan]

It's more Woody Allen than Will Ferrell.