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"In honor of the 75th anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle, this year’s New Directors/New Films festival will devote a week of matinees to previous NYFCC Best Director winners, selected and presented by current members of the critics group. The can’t-miss of the lineup looks to be the infamously contrarian Armond White’s presentation of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, which takes place on April 1. The other critics are David Fear, Marshall Fine, Lisa Schwarzbaum and Peter Travers; the other films are Half Nelson, Big Night, Frozen River and In the Company of Men. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog "
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"In honor of the 75th anniversary of the New York Film Critics Circle, this year’s New Directors/New Films festival will devote a week of matinees to previous NYFCC Best Director winners, selected and presented by current members of the critics group. The can’t-miss of the lineup looks to be the infamously contrarian Armond White’s presentation of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, which takes place on April 1. The other critics are David Fear, Marshall Fine, Lisa Schwarzbaum and Peter Travers; the other films are Half Nelson, Big Night, Frozen River and In the Company of Men. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth "
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"I have not seen nor ever heard of this movie, but I plan on watching it and here is why: I don't get it. It appears and feels to me that this movie by it's very name has a big socio-economic disconnect for me. It would be like watching a hour or so long movie of a exclusive rich clique and their inside jokes and gabbing bull session. Besides I'm 26 and was not of an age that could entertain nor digest this film. But like I said I want to watch it and then see how my current pre-conceptions change or otherwise. "
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"In the liner notes to the Criterion edition of writer/director Whit Stillman’s debut film, Metropolitan, cultural critic/historian Luc Sante notes that the picture, “which looked like a perverse bit of daring in 1990, today seems like an artifact from an earlier century.” Sante is likely referring to the debutante culture in which the film is set, but the story of how the movie itself not only found an audience but rose to classic teen movie status among a certain class seems equally antiquated in this age of indie film Chicken Littles. Made for a reported $250,000, starring a full cast of young unknowns, and consisting primarily of one long scene after another of rich kids sitting in a palatial Upper East Side apartment discussing Jane Austen, Charles Fourier, their mostly unfashionable morals and fears of failure, all the while dressed in evening clothes, Metropolitan played in theaters for seven months, eventually grossing $3 million and earning Stilman an Oscar nomination (he l ... "
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"In the liner notes to the Criterion edition of writer/director Whit Stillman’s debut film, Metropolitan, cultural critic/historian Luc Sante notes that the picture, “which looked like a perverse bit of daring in 1990, today seems like an artifact from an earlier century.” Sante is likely referring to the debutante culture in which the film is set, but the story of how the movie itself not only found an audience but rose to classic teen movie status among a certain class seems equally antiquated in this age of indie film Chicken Littles. Made for a reported $250,000, starring a full cast of young unknowns, and consisting primarily of one long scene after another of rich kids sitting in a palatial Upper East Side apartment discussing Jane Austen, Charles Fourier, their mostly unfashionable morals and fears of failure, all the while dressed in evening clothes, Metropolitan played in theaters for seven months, eventually grossing $3 million and earning Stilman an Oscar nomination (he l ... "
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"If F. Scott Fitzgerald was a filmmaker instead of a novelist, and had he been a chronicler of the Me Decade instead of the Jazz Age, he probably would have made a movie like Metropolitan. Like Fitzgerald's best work, it is a clever depiction of a social class that are not often written about in American art, and is accessible to everyone. That introduction might lead you to conclude that this is a film about poor migrant workers or homosexuals or other disenfranchised groups. But Metropolitan is about people who aren't disenfranchised at all- the young, white rich (although they call themselves bougiouse). When the rich are featured in movies at all they are usually portrayed as having empty lives of excess (La Dolce Vita) or happy, full lives of excess (every romantic comedy ever made). In this movie they are shown as being just like everyone else, accept with a lot more life security. In a way, some of them don't like that. Charlie (Taylor Nicholas), the group intellectual, think ... "
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"Anne-Marie and I started our At-Home Film Festival this past week with Metropolitan (1990). I'm going to adjust the "One thing ..." format for movies from our home library, and write about the reasons I'm glad we have these films on DVD rather than one thing that makes them good, wonderful, fun, etc. So, here goes ...One reason two reasons why I'm glad we have Metropolitan in our collection is are Christopher Eigeman and Taylor Nichols. Both have a real facility with Whit Stillman's arch, formal, and, probably, overly literate dialogue. However, they each handle it in very different ways. The words just roll off of Eigeman's tongue, while Nichols is so earnest that he sells it even if it never quite sounds "natural." It isn't hard to understand why Stillman wanted them both in Barcelona (1994) and Eigeman in The Last Days of Disco (1998) (and, yes, Nichols shows up here, too, but only in a cameo as Charlie from Metropolitan). Originally posted on:Short-Circuit Signs "
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One my top ten faves
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"I absolutely love this movie!! People either love this movie, or just don't get it. Talk about a perfect script!! Perfect casting, beautiful sets. And chocked full of quotes. "Tom, Audrey....cha cha cha". "She went to one of those horsey-girls schools....she'd never shower, only putting on more and more makeup...she'd be silent for days, then talk insessantly about Paul McCartney." "The SFRP...." I think Whit Stillman is a genius, and this is by far his greatest work. But I would stand in line for days to say anything he wrote or directed. GREAT FILM. GOTTA SEE IT "
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