Over the course of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman made a trilogy of films about the acid tongues and broken hearts of some haplessly erudite young Americans in New York and abroad.

Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semi-autobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his 1990 Oscar-nominated debut, Metropolitan), privileged ...

With "Damsels in Distress," his fourth, funniest and most accessible film, writer-director Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan," "Barcelona," "Last Days of Disco") shakes off his "acquired taste" label.

Stillman has spent his filmmaking career roguishly flouting these (actually unwritten) rules, and some others. His artful defiance has yielded a small but wonderful oeuvre comprising four films, all ...

Metropolitan (1990) is a film about the lives of a group of New York preppies during the debutante season. It’s an ironic and comedic look at a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly ...