Whit Stillman Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1951 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A writer/director whose light, urbane sensibility launched him to the forefront of the American independent filmmaking movement of the '90s, Whit Stillman was born in New York City in 1952. The son of a member of John F. Kennedy's Presidential administration and an impoverished debutante, he was...Read More

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The Last Days of Disco

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Eigeman, Matt Keeslar, MacKenzie Astin

Synopsis: As another installment of Whit Stillman's trilogy, The Last Days of Disco fits chronologically between Metropolitan (1990) and Barcelona (1994), with several cameos overlapping and linking the films. During "the very early 1980s," friends gather at a popular Manhattan disco club reminiscent of Read More

5/29/98
Homicide: Life on the Street - The Heart of a Saturday Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Three homicide investigations -- involving a carjacking, a rape, and a bar fight -- are unfolded in a series of flashbacks from the viewpoint of both the homicide detectives and the victims' families, the latter having formed a support group. A surprise development occurs when the group welcomes a Read More

1996
Barcelona

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Taylor Nichols, Christopher Eigeman, Tushka Bergen, Mira Sorvino, Pepe Munne

Synopsis: The second film from writer/director Whit Stillman, Barcelona is a smart, urbane comedy of manners set in Spain at the tail end of the Cold War. Taylor Nichols stars as Ted, an American salesman living in Barcelona. Out of the blue, he is visited by his acidic cousin Fred (Chris Eigeman), a U.S. Read More

1994
Metropolitan

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Christopher Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Allison Rutledge-Parisi

Synopsis: The debut film from writer-director Whit Stillman etches a sophisticated comic portrait of New York debutante society at the twilight of the 1980s. Set during the Christmas season, the film is told from the vantage point of Tom Townsend (Edward Clements), a self-professed proletarian radical who Read More

8/3/90
La Linea del Cielo

Actors: Antonio Resines, Beatriz Perez-Porro, Roy Hoffman, Whit Stillman

Synopsis: Antonio Resines plays a Spanish photographer whose dreams of fame and fortune lead him to New York City. All he cares about are the surface attractions of the Big Apple; he doesn't even bother to learn the English language beyond a few random phrases. As a result, he stumbles about Manhattan like Read More

1983
Sal Gorda

1982