Whit Stillman

I’ve belatedly got round to collating links to some old reviews of Metropolitan that reader Eric Burritt kindly sent in. I’ve added them to the appropriate page, but here’s a summary of all the new additions:

• Reviews of the film
  • ‘Metropolitan’ in Variety (1 Jan 1990)
  • ‘Exploring the Upper Class: Stillman’s Work Promising’ by Kelly A.E. Mason for the Harvard Crimson (which Stillman used to write for) (21 Sep 1990)
  • ‘”Metropolitan” defies convention’ by William Arnold for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (14 Sep 1990)
  • ‘Metropolitan’ by Chris Hicks for Deseret News (23 Oct 1990)
• Blog posts
  • ‘Whit Stillman, the anti-John Hughes’ by Agnostic (1 Jul 2007)
• Reviews of the video
  • ‘Metropolitan’ by David Thomson for Hollywood Life (2003)
  • ‘Metropolitan’ at San Diego NewsNotes (April 2005)
• Reviews of the DVD
  • ‘Metropolitan’ by Angie Errigo for Empire (Date unknown)
  • ‘Metropolitan’ by Nick Pinkerton for Reverse Shot (Winter 2006)
  • ‘Coming of age on the Upper East Side’ by Leighton Klein for the Boston Globe (12 Feb 2006)
  • ‘Whit Stillman and Metropolitan’ at Udolpho.com (19 Feb 2006)
  • ‘Metropolitan’ by David Mermelstein for Variety (5 Mar 2006)
  • ‘Metropolitan’ by Tood Gilchrist for IGN.com (21 Mar 2006)
  • ‘Metropolitan’ at New York Press (10 May 2006)
  • ‘Metropolitan’ by Neil Young for Tribune magazine (12 May 2006)
  • ‘Metropolitan’ by Anthony Quinn for the Independent (19 May 2006)
  • ‘TODO: “Metropolitan”‘ by Doree Shafrir at Gawker.com (15 Dec 2006)

I also added a link to a review of The Last Days of Disco:

• ‘The Last Days of Disco’ by James Bowman (1 May 1998)