Whit Stillman
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Straight Man August 23, 2024
The second film by writer and director Whit Stillman, the male Jane Austen of the nineteen-nineties, is Barcelona. It turned thirty this July. Much like Austen, Stillman is a gentle ironist most loved, and I suspect much misunderstood, by the kind of...
Twilight of the Urban Haute Bourgeoise January 02, 2024
Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (1990) is a film about the disintegration of a social circle and a social class. The story centers on Tom Townsend (Edward Clements), a Princeton freshman back in Manhattan for a Christmas vacation. Tom is a self-proclaim...
