Also see the Metropolitan credits page
View the complete movie for free online at Hulu.com (USA only)
- IMDb entry
- The DVD and Blu-Ray at the Criterion Collection
- Available to rent in the US iTunes Store.
- The poster illustration by Pierre Le-Tan (accessible from this page).
DVD, Blu-ray and Streaming
- Amazon.com: Criterion DVD, Criterion Blu-ray or Instant
- Amazon.ca: Criterion DVD or Criterion Blu-ray
- Amazon.co.uk: 1990 DVD or Criterion DVD, US import
- Amazon.de: 1990 DVD, UK import
- Amazon.fr: 1990 DVD, UK import or Criterion DVD, US import
- Amazon.es: Criterion DVD, import or DVD, Italian
- Amazon.it: DVD
Screenplay Book
Includes the screenplay of Barcelona.
Trailer
Press
- ‘Rich and Poor in One World of Film’ by Stephen Holden in the New York Times (16 Mar 1990)
- ‘Metropolitan Chronicles Preppy Angst’ by Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times (29 Jul 1990)
- ‘New Face; Crashing A Socialite’s Cozy World’ by Stephen Holden at the New York Times, an interview with Chris Eigeman (3 Aug 1990)
- ‘On to Barcelona‘ by Lawrence van Gelder in the New York Times (23 Nov 1990)
- ‘Even WASP’s are Allowed to Have Feelings’ by Richard Brookhiser in the New York Times (20 Jan 1991)
- ‘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)
- ‘Confessions…’ interview by James Ramsay (2002?)
- ‘A Great Conservative Film Maker’ by Julia Magnet in City Journal (Winter 2004)
- ‘Metropolitan Helmer Hails DVD’ by Jessica Wolf at Home Media Magazine (13 Feb 2006)
- ‘Whit Stillman and Metropolitan‘ on Udolpho.com (19 Feb 2006)
- ‘The Kids Stay In The Picture’ by Nathan Kosub at Stop Smiling (24 Aug 2006)
- Stillman talks on video for the BBC, looking back at Metropolitan and how he’d like to go back to that style of film-making (18 May 2006)
- Actor Chris Eigeman interviewed on video at FilmCatcher. Two clips on the Metropolitan page (click the links under ‘MEDIA’ on the left) and more on this interview page (date unknown)
- Chris Eigeman interviewed by Andrew Ellard at RedDwarf.co.uk about making the Red Dwarf TV show after Metropolitan (date unknown)
- ‘Anderson vs. Stillman’ by Dave Micevic at The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola, recommending Stillman to fans of Wes Anderson’s movies (17 Jul 2006)
- ‘Whit Stillman, the anti-John Hughes’ by Agnostic (1 Jul 2007)
- ‘The Best Conservative Movies’ (Metropolitan at number three) at National Review (23 Feb 2009)
- ‘Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan … Selected for 2010 Sundance Film Festival… ‘, a Sundance press release (17 Dec 2009)
- Metropolitan at Sundance. YouTube video of Stillman introducing the film, plus interviews with Taylor Nichols and Chris Eigeman. (26 Jan 2010)
- ‘Metropolitan, 20 Years Later’ by Mike Jones at Sundance (26 Jan 2010)
- LIVE@SUNDANCE 2010: From the Sundance Collection: Metropolitan. Another YouTube video of Stillman talking about the film, plus brief appearances by Taylor Nichols and Chris Eigeman. (29 Jan 2010)
- ‘Owen’s reviews revisited: Was I wrong to pan ‘Metropolitan’ and ‘Pump Up the Volume’? Yes and no’ by Owen Gleiberman at EW.com. (26 Aug 2010)
- ‘Christmas Nocturne’ by James Wolcott for Vanity Fair. (23 Dec 2011)
Reviews
- Siskel and Ebert video review. Thumbs up from Ebert, down from Siskel. (1990)
- ‘Metropolitan’ in Variety (1 Jan 1990)
- ‘The Dance Is Over, but the Whirl Goes On’ by Vincent Canby in the New York Times (23 Mar 1990)
- ‘With Movies Like These, One Never Knows (page 3)’ by Vincent Canby in the New York Times (1 Apr 1990)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Owen Gleiberman at EW.com (24 Aug 1990)
- ‘Metropolitan Succeeds Despite Breaking Rules Of Action’ by John Hartl for the Seattle Times (14 Sep 1990)
- ‘”Metropolitan” defies convention’ by William Arnold for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (14 Sep 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’ by Chris Hicks for Deseret News (23 Oct 1990)
Reviews of the VHS
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Lawrence O’Toole at EW.com (21 Jun 1991)
- ‘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: The Criterion Collection’ by “DSH” at The DVD Journal (2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Nick Pinkerton for Reverse Shot (Winter 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Michelle Kung at EW.com (10 Feb 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan (DVD)’ by Rory L. Aronsky at Film Threat (11 Feb 2006)
- ‘Coming of age on the Upper East Side’ by Leighton Klein for the Boston Globe (12 Feb 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Dan Heaton at Digitally Obsessed (14 Feb 2006)
- ‘On DVD: Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan‘ by Thom Bennett at IFC.com (14 Feb 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Brent Simon at Now Playing Magazine (16 Feb 2006)
- ‘Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan: A movie for the conservative in all of us’ by Austin Kelley at Slate (16 Feb 2006)
- ‘Fairy tale of New York’ by Andrew Johnston at Time Out New York (16 Feb 2006)
- ‘Whit Stillman and Metropolitan’ at Udolpho.com (19 Feb 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Glenn Erickson at DVD Savant (20 Feb 2006)
- ‘Director Stillman excels in wit, precocious wisdom’ by Mike Clark at USA Today (20 Feb 2006)
- ‘Where Are You, Whit? Criterion Does Metropolitan’ by Michael Calderone at the New York Observer (5 Mar 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by David Mermelstein for Variety (5 Mar 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan (Criterion Collection)’ by Noel Megahey at DVD Times (16 Mar 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Tood Gilchrist for IGN.com (21 Mar 2006)
- ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by George Pendle at Frieze.com (April 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ at New York Press (10 May 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Neil Young for Tribune magazine (12 May 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Andrew Pulver at the Guardian (19 May 2006)
- ‘Metropolitan’ by Anthony Quinn for the Independent (19 May 2006)
- ‘TODO: “Metropolitan”‘ by Doree Shafrir at Gawker.com (15 Dec 2006)