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Butler Libraries Film Series: Metropolitan

A Guide to supplement the new Butler Libraries Film Series, launched September 2023

More on Metropolitan

American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins
Publication Date: 2012
Independent Cinema by D. K. Holm
Publication Date: 2010
Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on the films of Whit Stillman by Mark C. Henrie, Ed.
Publication Date: 2001
Class, Language, and American Film Comedy by Christopher Beach
Publication Date: 2002
Charles Fourier: the Visionary and his World by Jonathan Beecher
Publication Date: 2024
On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft by Barbara Morgan; Maya Perez (Eds)
Publication Date: 2013

Whit Stillman, Carolyn Farina, and Dylan Hundley on Metropolitan

Further Reading

Whit Stillman's 'Metropolitan,' a Modern Comedy of Manners
Canby, Vincent. The New York Times. Aug. 30, 1990. C6.
Metropolitan [review]
Ebert, Roger. August 1990.
Whit Stillman [interview]
Sussler, Betsy. BOMB. No. 34, Winter 1991.
Places in the Heart
Lyons, Donald. Film Comment. Vol. 30, issue 4. July 1994.
WHIT PEOPLE: In his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman is still pursuing the elusive inner life of preppies
Brown, Chip. The New York Times. March 18, 2012. SM31.
Metropolitan: After the Ball
Sante, Lucy. Criterion.com, July 24, 2012.
'Metropolitan' and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B.
Brody, Richard. The New Yorker. August 11 2015.
On the Greatest Christmas Movie of All Time
Burton, Tara Isabella. The Line of Beauty. Dec. 26, 2021

Further Viewing

Barcelona by Whit Stillman
Publication Date: 1994
The Last Days of Disco by Whit Stillman
Publication Date: 1998
Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman
Publication Date: 2012
Love & Friendship by Whit Stillman
Publication Date: 2015

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