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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rejoice, all members of the urban haute bourgeoisie: 58-year-old director Whit Stillman, modern master of the comedy of manners, has finally, after a dozen years of waiting, filmed his fourth movie.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whit Stillman doesn’t want to talk about politics. Ask the famed indie film director for his thoughts about the current Republican primary race, and he politely — but flatly — declines.