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Screens at London's The Garden Cinema, Saturday at 4.15 pm (also Saturday 7 pm at the Forum des Images, Paris, with discussion afterwards). www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/metropo...
Somewhat true - though she would have snobbed us pretty severely.
@whitstillman.bsky.social prepared us for this as far back as 1990: "Polly Perkins is, essentially, a composite... based on real people, like New York magazine does." clip.cafe/metropolitan...
METROPOLITAN screens in both Paris & London Saturday! Forum des Images, Paris, at 7 pm (discussion after) and The Garden Cinema, London, at 4.15 pm. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP will also screen at Forum des Images at 4.30 pm as part of "Jane Austen Forever" series. www.forumdesimages.fr/metropolitan
Every day this week I'm posting a Whit Stillman review; he's touring the UK this week with 35mm prints of his films thanks to Lost Reels. Today, I'm looking at 1994's delightful Barcelona, and nostalgic for a time when America was a respected country abroad. 5/5
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For @engelsbergideas.bsky.social I wrote about Metropolitan, a timeless witty comedy of manners - about virtue, no less - by @whitstillman.bsky.social
I interviewed Whit Stillman last week about Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress Love and Friendship, and his kinship with the great Scottish director Bill Forsyth. Our conversation and his tour dates for the UK in the article here. film-authority.com/2025/07/20/i...
William Powell and Kay Francis in One Way Passage (Tay Garnett, 1932).
East Africa has been playing the long game and I for one think it's beautiful
You can find out a lot from a summary.
Thanks for going! Was anyone else there? [Repeat show, lunch hour June 24th]
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If true, that's too bad.
For those who are not followers of Moses, re-posting his account. #WoodyAllen
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Free World's Leaders Meet in Kyiv
Outside the SIFF Uptown
Promo screen for Metropolitan
Whit Stillman in front of the screen
Saw a 35th anniversary screening of Metropolitan at @siffnews.bsky.social this afternoon, and @whitstillman.bsky.social himself was there
The #Metropolitan 35th Anniversary Tour heads to Sacramento's historic Crest Theater April 29th!
www.eventbrite.com/e/metropolit...
METROPOLITAN's 35th Anni Tour heads to the Atlanta Film Festival Saturday, April 26th! Will be there. (Next: Crest Sacramento April 29, Cinema 21 Portland OR May 1, Whidbey Island May 2 & 3, Seattle IFF May 4) atlff25.eventive.org/films/67dde6...
Finally got the chance to see @whitstillman.bsky.social live and in person this evening to discuss “Love and Friendship” after a screening of it
Cheering myself up in the company of the ever delightful Damon Runyon .. As if his Broadway stories weren't wonderful enough, these editions feature sublime illustrations by Nicolas Bentley - the icing on an already delicious cake 👌.
#DamonRunyon
#NicolasBentley
Reskeet with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
cc: @whitstillman.bsky.social
Despising the rich was so much better before Marx. From Trollope's "Ayala's Angel" - an impecunious, illegitimate sculptor's view:
Maybe you should have dug deeper.
Upcoming Tuesday April 15th - "Barcelona" movie at the Bedford NY Playhouse. Debate with Janet Maslin afterwards!
(April 17 Love & Friendship Bryn Mawr Film Institute) bedfordplayhouse.org/movies/barce...
Me too! Trying again this summer with Lost Reels UK!