Love & Friendship
2016
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John Whitney Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director and actor known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Whit Stillman. Director: Love & Friendship. Whit Stillman was born in 1952 and raised in Cornwall in upstate New York, the son of a impoverished debutante from Philadelphia and a Democratic politician from Washington D.C. Stillman graduated from Harvard in 1973 and started out as a journalist in Manhattan, New York City.
Aug 30, 2020 · Whit Stillman's Metropolitan: An Oral History of the Preppiest, WASPiest, Wittiest Comedy of Heirs. On its 30th anniversary, the doomed bourgeoisie, debutantes in distress and founding...
Whit Stillman. Director: Love & Friendship. Whit Stillman was born in 1952 and raised in Cornwall in upstate New York, the son of a impoverished debutante from Philadelphia and a Democratic politician from Washington D.C. Stillman graduated from Harvard in 1973 and started out as a journalist in Manhattan, New York City.
About Whit Stillman. Whit Stillman has directed five films, Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress and Love & Friendship . Stillman also directed Homicide: Life on the Street (season 5, episode 7 ). He also directed a pilot for Amazon called The Cosmopolitans.
Apr 29, 2016 · The writer-director of such witty cultural sendups as Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco talks about that early-career trilogy; his new Jane Austen adaptation, Love and Friendship; and the filmmaker’s work of capturing the past.
Aug 6, 2015 · When Whit Stillman’s “Metropolitan” hit theaters in 1990, it seemed like an overnight success. But the low-budget film about a group of self-proclaimed “urban haute bourgeoisie” in Manhattan...
Aug 3, 1990 · Metropolitan: Directed by Whit Stillman. With Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols. A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
Feb 15, 2024 · Whit Stillman is the writer/director of five films: the Oscar-nominated Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Damsels in Distress (2011), and the Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship (2015). He started out in journalism and book publishing and has written two novels related to his movies.
THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO came about as the merging of two story ideas — one about young people just out of college and graduate school coming to Manhattan for their first jobs and bad apartments; the other concerning a popular dance club in the last days of the Disco Era.
