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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the course of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman made a trilogy of films about the acid tongues and broken hearts of some haplessly erudite young Americans in New York and abroad.

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 ...

Stillman has spent his filmmaking career roguishly flouting these (actually unwritten) rules, and some others. His artful defiance has yielded a small but wonderful oeuvre comprising four films, all ...