When Whit Stillman’s debut film Metropolitan was released 25 years ... stayed for the sharp and clever story of, as the film’s poster states, “doomed bourgeois in love.” ...

It’s an image from Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (1990), a film that deserves to be revered as more than just an American holiday classic. Even the most literary families watch films at Christmas. Like ...

“Metropolitan,” Stillman’s first feature ... Like the original, it was shot to look like it’s one continuous take. (The poster promises “88 minutes of real fear captured in real time.”) ...

As for his love of art, Stillman credits his mother with frequent—he calls them “insistent”—visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a child, where she would create games and challenges ...

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 was writer-director Whit Stillman's first feature, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. Stillman grew up in this setting that inspired the film ...

Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan started as a short conversation ... the movie became an art house hit on a budget of $210,000 and “backed into”—Stillman’s words—an Academy Award ...