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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 13:32:13 GMT
I still think Love & Friendship is his funniest and most complete.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 21, 2019 17:01:31 GMT
Metropolitan sparkles. The directing is amateurish in a way, but it never gets in the way of the story, unlike some very "professional" directing jobs that do just that (I'm looking at you, AGI). It's the wittiest, most touching film of them all.
Love and Friendship is delightfully wicked, and Stillman remains the only writer/director to ever capture Austen's cutting sense of humor in an adaptation.
Barcelona is very much of the same stuff as Metropolitan, if a bit more polished and a bit less involving. Still one of the greatest films of the 1990s.
Damsels in Distress was... strange? I really liked it anyway. I mean, suicide donuts! That's the pinnacle of comedy right there.
The Last Days of Disco is Stillman's most "mature" film, but it is also his least fun. Oh, there are GREAT moments ("To thine own self be true," the Lady and the Tramp discussion, sexy Scrooge McDuck) but they're scattered in a story that is more serious than any of his others, and it never quite comes together perfectly in its dramatic moments. That said, I saw this many years back and I'm itching to rewatch it, as I imagine I'd be kinder to it today.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 21, 2019 18:03:37 GMT
I've only seen Metropolitan, which I really liked.
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Post by cheesecake on Jul 22, 2019 19:13:34 GMT
Metropolitan.
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