An Academy Award nominated writer and director will be coming to Sheffield for an anniversary screening of one of his most highly acclaimed films.Indie filmmaker Whit Stillman has developed a cult ...

Washington-born writer-director Whit Stillman has gained a reputation for making cult classics that seem ripped from the pages of "The Official Preppy Handbook." His movies have the power to make ...

Clearly, the character hasn’t seen her own movie. 25 years later, Whit Stillman’s portrait of New York socialites has a permanent place in the popular imagination.

Whit Stillman‘s characters are often criticized as being aimless, a characterization that the writer and director happens to despise. “That word — ‘aimless’ — is really annoying,” he ...

With a trio of sharp, literate films that mapped the emotional landscape of the young, American and upscale, Whit Stillman emerged from the ‘90s independent film scene as one of the decade’s ...

With Stillman, Amazon has the chance to establish itself as a much more inventive studio than with Allen.

Talking with Whit Stillman feels like a witty scene out of a 30s film, the era he considers cinema’s best. Think William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man.

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 ...

Two decades on from his masterpiece on anti-Americanism abroad, Whit Stillman remains obsessed with native-expat dynamics.

One of the reasons why Whit Stillman’s new film, “Love & Friendship,” is so deeply satisfying is that he filmed it on his home turf. “Love & Friendship,” an adaptation of an early novel ...