What Ever Happened To Whit Stillman?
The last I'd heard, Whit Stillman, director of Metropolitan and Barcelona and auteur of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie, was going to adapt the novel Red Azalea by Anchee Min. But after an announcement in the trades in 2002, nothing
He wrote recently in the Observer about where he's been. The project he'll be talking up at the festival would be his first feature film in eight years (The Last Days of Disco came out in 1998) and will involve his passion for Jamaican music and culture - until now, he's been protective of the idea.
"Silence is one of the greatest and least used weapons in the film business arsenal," says Stillman. "The best rule seems to be: when a project is completed or nearly so, don't shut up about it. But when it's still in its early stages, don't say a word."