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)
Hi – does anyone know what’s happened to Edward Clements? Can’t find any info anywhere.
Thanks!
Rod
Here’s the old Yule Log from TV to cheer you up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Qiimoa8A8
Debutante season … in the movie the season was referred to as something else, I think it was toward the end of the “season” in the white words used between scenes.
Does anyone remember what it was?
Edward Clements “found” God and became a preacher and church type.