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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About the $14,000 cost of a table at the biennial International Debutante Ball, which took place at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday night, director Margaret Hedberg told the New York Times, “watches ...

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 ...

With "Damsels in Distress," his fourth, funniest and most accessible film, writer-director Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan," "Barcelona," "Last Days of Disco") shakes off his "acquired taste" label.