About once a year, the “Whatever Happened to Whit Stillman?” train rolls into the station, unloads a few bits of rumor that never quite amount to much of anything, and then rolls right out again.  I actually saw Stillman at a Film Society of Lincoln Center party a couple of months ago; a colleague told me he was going from table to table, trying to woo investors. I don’t know if the fact that there was a listicle published with Stillman’s byline in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal should be considered evidence that his panhandling worked (and, thus, he’s now actually working on a film), or not. But as far as listicles go, it’s a pretty good story!

The filmmaker picks his top five favorite film books, of which I had only previously read two (Hitchcock/Truffaut and The Genius of the System). I didn’t even know the Preston Sturges book on the list, Between Flops, existed.

Via GreenCine Daily.