Whit Stillman was never what you’d call a prolific filmmaker, but this is getting ridiculous. Stillman was something of a late bloomer in the first place; he started work on the Barcelona screenplay in the early 80s while working as a foreign sales agent in Spain, then set it aside when he returned to New York to run an illustration agency. He then spent four years working on the script for Metropolitan, which eventually became his debut feature in 1990, when Stillman was 38 years old. He received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay and was able to secure studio funding for Barcelona, which reached screens four years later.
Another four years passed before The Last Days of Disco was released in 1998, but Stillman couldn’t keep up the breakneck pace.
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