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Barcelona (1994)


The writers I most love--Jane Austen, Tolstoy, Samuel Johnson--had their desire to observe life and recommend, through their own means, certain paths, certain types of people, certain types of conduct.
    -Whit Stillman, -INTERVIEW: THE SOUL OF WHIT STILLMAN (Hara Estroff Marano, May/Jun 98, Psychology Today)
FRED: Maybe you can clarify something for me. Since I've been, you know, waiting for the fleet to show up, I've read a lot, and--

TED: Really?

FRED: And one of the things that keeps popping up is this about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs--they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?

TED: The text.

FRED: OK, that's right, but they never talk about that.
Chris Hicks in the Deseret News

(Reviewed:30-Jun-03)

Grade: (A)

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    -BOOK LIST: A preppy pantheon: The film director and author of "The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards" picks five essential books for the Bass Weejuns set. (Whit Stillman, December 22, 2000, Salon)
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Whit Stillman (IMDB.com)
    -FILM SITE: Last Days of Disco (Official Web Site)
    -BOOK SITE: DOOMED BOURGEOIS IN LOVE: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman Edited by Mark C. Henrie (ISI)
    -INFO: Barcelona (1994) (IMDB.com)
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Chris Eigeman (Imdb.com)
    -INTERVIEW: Whit's World: Interrogatory with author, director, producer Whit Stillman. (Kathryn Jean Lopez, October 21-22, 2000, National Review)
    -INTERVIEW: THE SOUL OF WHIT STILLMAN (Hara Estroff Marano, May/Jun 98, Psychology Today)
    -INTERVIEW: with Whit Stillman (Keith Phipps, June 11, 1998, Onion AV Club)
    -INTERVIEW: with Whit Stillman (Jeffrey M. Anderson , May 19, 1998, Combustible Celluloid)
    -INTERVIEW: with Whit Stillman (Gerald Peary)
    -INTERVIEW: with Whit Stillman (PRAIRIE MILLER, Mini Reviews)
    -INTERVIEW: Celebrated Whit: Salon interviews Whit Stillman (LAURA MILLER, May 1998, Salon)
    -ESSAY Films of the Spirit (Austin W. Bramwell, June/July 2002, First Things)
    -ESSAY: Nature, Grace, and The Last Days of Disco (Peter Augustine Lawler)
    -Phil's Unofficial Whit Stillman Home Page
    -ARCHIVES: "whit stillman" (Find Articles)
    -ARCHIVES: "whit stillman" (Mag Portal)
    -REVIEW ARCHIVES: Barcelona (IMDB.com)
    -REVIEW ARCHIVES: Barcelona (MRQE.com)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (James Berardinelli, ReelViews)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Matthew K. Gold, Guide to Cinema)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Chris Hicks, Deseret News)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Desson Howe, Washington Post)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Michael Snyder, SF Chronicle)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Noel Murray, Onion AV Club)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Christopher Null, filmcritic.com)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Edwin Jahiel)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Stephen Farber, Movieline)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Brian Baker, Austin Chronicle)
    -REVIEW: of Barcelona (Ben Stephens, Edinburgh University Film Society)
    -REVIEW: of The Last Days of Disco (James Berardinelli, ReelViews)
    -REVIEW: of The Last Days of Disco (James Bowman)
    -REVIEW: of The Last Days of Disco (David Walsh, World Socialist Web Site)
    -REVIEW: of The Last Days of Disco (Laura Miller, Salon)
    -REVIEW: of THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO: With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards By Whit Stillman (Peter Khoury, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO: With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards By Whit Stillman (Jason K. Friedman, SF Chronicle)
    -REVIEW: of Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman, edited by Mark C. Henrie (Terry Teachout, National Review)