It’s Christmas Eve in New York, and at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, a silent tear runs down Audrey Rouget’s face. It’s an image from Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (1990), a film that deserves to be ...
Metropolitan (1990) is a film about the lives of a group of New York preppies during the debutante season. It’s an ironic and comedic look at a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly ...
About the $14,000 cost of a table at the biennial International Debutante Ball, which took place at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday night, director Margaret Hedberg told the New York Times, “watches ...
Filmmaker Whit Stillman is in Williamstown, Massachusetts tonight for a special screening of his 1990 debut “Metropolitan” at Images Cinema. The film explores the lives of wealthy teenagers in ...
After studying at Harvard and working in publishing, Stillman was in his late 30s when he made his mark on the indie scene, launching the $300,000 film at IFP’s Independent Feature Film Market in 1989 ...
It is a charming comedy-drama that follows a group of young upper-class Manhattanites during the debut season of the show. As they navigate social gatherings and engage in witty conversations, the ...
Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semi-autobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his 1990 Oscar-nominated debut, Metropolitan), privileged ...