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One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman’s surprise hit Metropolitan is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures among New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this debut film an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alongside the wit and sophistication, though, lies a tender tale of adolescent anxiety. —The Criterion Collection

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Whit Stillman

A writer/director whose light, urbane sensibility launched him to the forefront of the American independent filmmaking movement of the ‘90s, Whit Stillman was born in New York City in 1952. The son of a member of John F. Kennedy’s Presidential administration and an impoverished debutante, he was raised in the upstate New York area of Cornwall, and later attended Harvard University, where he wrote humor pieces for the college daily. Upon graduating in 1973, Stillman relocated to Manhattan and began working as a journalist. While in Spain in 1980 for his wedding, he met a group of film producers and attempted to convince them that he could sell their movies to Spanish-language cable television stations in the U.S. The producers ultimately agreed, and Stillman spent the next several years as an international sales agent for Spanish filmmakers including Fernando Trueba and Fernando Colomo. He also occasionally appeared in motion pictures, including Trueba’s 1982 work Sal Gorda and Colomo’s… read more

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lolo341

11Feb12

"Finally... A film about the downwardly mobile."

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Judicial Joe

3Feb12

Nick Smith is a badass.

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Adrian Mendoza

7Dec11

im like watching this for 3 consecutive sunday afternoons! bring on the blu-ray!

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mfg

6Dec11

I feel weird sympathizing with people this rich.

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"Gatsby," "Slacker," "Metropolitan"

By Z. Bart on September 30, 2010

What does it mean to have nothing to do? I’m not talking about the kind of boredom that leads to violence (as in Wolfgang Bauer’s “Magic Afternoon” or just about anything by Larry Clark), and I’m…  read review

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By Maicol Andrés Ordoñez on January 13, 2010

Oh man, what a joy this movie was to watch. Not only does it set up the mannerist candor that Wes Anderson continued and Noah Baumbach has attempted to make absolutely dull but it has also made me…  read review

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By jaredmo​barak on November 7, 2009

I have discovered a new cinematic character worth quoting and his name is Nick Smith. Ever since Criterion decided to release a couple Whit Stillman films, I was intrigued to find out exactly what…  read review

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By McNulty on November 6, 2009

I don’t usually give 2 shits about the drama upper-class-rich-spoiled-kids from New York go through but “Metropolitan” was actually an enjoyable movie.

The dialogue was hilarious, hearing these…  read review

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the whit stillman "trilogy"

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