WHIT STILLMAN TRILOGY
Triple Feature:METROPOLITAN, 1990, Rialto Pictures, 98 min. Dir. Whit Stillman. Writer-director Whit Stillman earned an Oscar nomination for his debut feature, this perceptive comedy of manners set in 1970s Manhattan. While on winter break from his university, Tom Townsend (Edward Clements) meets a group of young socialites at a debutante ball and is accepted into their circle, spending evenings at after-hours parties hashing through socialist political theories, romantic gossip and concerns about the impending demise of the aristocracy to which all but Tom were born.
25th Anniversary! BARCELONA, 1994, Warner Bros., 101 min. Dir. Whit Stillman. When two blithely self-absorbed young American cousins - stuffy salesman Ted (Taylor Nichols) and military officer Fred (Chris Eigeman) - meet in Barcelona, Spain, both are completely oblivious to their lack of cultural awareness as they discover romance in Whit Stillman’s literate comedy of manners.
THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO, 1998, Universal, 113 min. Dir. Whit Stillman. Writer-director Whit Stillman concludes his “doomed bourgeois in love” trilogy with this semi-autobiographical dramedy set in the early 1980s. Recent college graduates Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny) and Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale) spend their days working their way up the ladder at a New York publishing house and their nights dancing and romancing at a Studio 54-style nightclub. This endearing portrait of dawning adulthood features a talented ensemble cast (including Robert Sean Leonard, Chris Eigeman and Jennifer Beals), scintillating banter and a soundtrack filled with disco classics. Discussion following BARCELONA with director Whit Stillman and actors Taylor Nichols and Tushka Bergen. Special Ticket Prices: $15 General, $13 Members.
