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Whit Stillman nel 2017. John Whitney Stillman, noto come Whit Stillman (Washington, 25 gennaio 1952), è un regista e sceneggiatore statunitense, conosciuto principalmente per il suo film del 1990 Metropolitan, che è stato candidato all'Oscar per la migliore sceneggiatura originale.. Si è laureato ad Harvard in Storia a soli 21 anni.
It is the final of writer-director Whit Stillman’s three nightlife comedies, lightly linking the earlier “Metropolitan” (1990) with the chronologically later “Barcelona” (1994). Here the debate is between the virtues of group social life vs. “ferocious pairing off.”. “We get obsessed with those things we feel are in too short ...
Whit Stillman The unofficial website about the director. Menu Skip to content Home; About; Films. Metropolitan (1990) Barcelona (1994) The Last Days of Disco (1998) Damsels in Distress (2011) Love & Friendship (2016)
‘Whit Stillman’ by Betsy Sussler in BOMB magazine. (Winter 1991) Number 79 in ‘Top 100 American Independent Films’ (of the 1990s, provided by the BFI) at Empire (8 Mar 1999) ‘From Mansfield to Manhattan: The Abandoned Generation of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan’ (PDF) by R. V. Young at The Intercollegiate Review (Spring 2000)
30 Ogo 2020 · Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan started as a short conversation about how the upper middle class was “doomed.”. Stillman scribbled the idea on a piece of paper in the summer of 1984. (A sample ...
29 Apr 2016 · T his week, we released writer-director Whit Stillman’s early-career trio of films about the 1980s, including Metropolitan (his directorial debut), The Last Days of Disco, and Barcelona. These three films, rich with witty dialogue and literary references and inspired by Stillman’s own coming of age, explore different facets of 1980s culture—from collegiate Manhattan debutante balls to ...
15 Feb 2024 · Whit Stillman is the writer/director of five films: the Oscar-nominated Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Damsels in Distress (2011), and the Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship (2015). He started out in journalism and book publishing and has written two novels related to his movies.
