Whit Stillman‘s characters are often criticized as being aimless, a characterization that the writer and director happens to despise. “That word — ‘aimless’ — is really annoying,” he ...

When Whit Stillman’s debut film Metropolitan was released 25 years ago today, preppies, yuppies, and WASPs were becoming less and less fascinating. The Reagan era was over; the gritty ‘90s ...

I write about Hollywood legends and real life. Talking with Whit Stillman feels like a witty scene out of a 30s film, the era he considers cinema’s best. Think William Powell and Myrna Loy in ...

Clearly, the character hasn’t seen her own movie. 25 years later, Whit Stillman’s portrait of New York socialites has a permanent place in the popular imagination. Its characters, dressed in ...

ADVERTISEMENT Re-enter Whit Stillman’s Barcelona, the funniest film ever made about the violent hatred of Americans, which turned 20 this month. The timing couldn’t be better. Violent hatred ...

One thus eventually realizes that there are three works to interpret in tandem: A) The Whit Stillman film, Love and Friendship. B) The early, never-published-in-her-lifetime, Jane Austen novel ...

When Whit Stillman’s “Metropolitan” hit theaters in 1990, it seemed like an overnight success. But the low-budget film about a group of self-proclaimed “urban haute bourgeoisie” in ...

What's in a name? John Whitney Stillman would probably go unnoticed in most environments. But mention Whit Stillman and the name will immediately catch the ear of cineastes as the nom de plume of ...

Whit Stillman didn’t always love Jane Austen. Actually, like Tom Townsend, the brainy Princeton freshman in “Metropolitan,” Stillman’s 1990 movie about young preppies navigating Manhattan ...