‘Metropolitan’ was selected for the Sundance Collection at UCLA and screened at the film festival, twenty years on.
What Ed Clements and Isabel Gillies (both from ‘Metropolitan’) are up to, plus another Stillman interview.
Links to old ‘Metropolitan’ reviews.
In a comment “John” kindly pointed out that you can watch Siskel and Ebert’s review of Metropolitan. Thumbs up from Ebert, down from Siskel.
Second, a recent article at National Review lists Metropolitan as number three in its Best Conservative Movies, with this from Mark Henrie (editor of the book Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on [...]
A couple of new things for you…
First, Rebecca Tirrell Talbot has written an article on Metropolitan and Barcelona at The Curator, ‘Virtuous Fun in the Films of Whit Stillman’:
I’ll tell you candidly — I love dark, cynical, yes, even nihilistic films. The macabre side of human experience is fascinating, and there has been [...]
The website for Ralph Lauren’s Rugby brand has a page listing five rules for how to make the most of a tuxedo, inspired by Stillman’s Metropolitan and illustrated with stills of Christopher Eigeman looking dapper.
Luxist has a post discussing the rules, including some comments from Stillman:
“When we were preparing Metropolitan there was a [...]
A bumper crop of Whit Stillman today.
The biggest news is that Stillman has released Metropolitan for free viewing online. Unfortunately this only works for those in the United States, but you lucky people can view the movie in full, for free, at Hulu.com. I’m in the UK so if you watch post in the [...]