Title: really terrific idea, terrible execution
Review: We need a book about the fine, vivid, beautiful film art of Whit Stillman, but not this one. An extraordinarily foolish and clunky collection of (mis)readings which calls to mind D.W. Harding's famous observation about the novels of Jane Austen: works which appeal to precisely the sort of people whom the author most despises. The essays commissioned especially for the book are particularly fatuous; the reprinted reviews not quite so appalling. Save your money and buy Stillman's novel 'The Last Days of Disco' instead.
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