Carla Kuhn: Metropolitan

2960 Broadway,New York NY 10027

30 September, 2022

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The Carla Kuhn series will host a screening of Metropolitan, the 1990 film from filmmaker Whit Stillman, this Friday, September 30 at 5:30pm ET in 511 Dodge Hall! Whit Stillman will appear in-person after the screening to discuss the film and answer your questions. We urge you to join us for the chance to see and discuss Metropolitan! ----- About Metropolitan Metropolitan was a hit at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art’s “New Directors” series, and the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. Released by New Line Cinema on August 3, 1990, it broke house records at the Paris Cinema and later at the Angelika Film Center in Soho. It had a seven-month run in New York and continued to play in the U.S. and Canada through the following year. Metropolitan was distributed worldwide and won awards at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) and at Deauville (France). The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and for three Independent Spirit Awards, winning for Best First Feature. The New York Film Critics Circle awarded it the prize for “Best New Director.” Subsequently, the Wall Street Journal listed Metropolitan as the most profitable film in terms of return for its investors prior to The Blair Witch Project. About Whit Stillman Whit Stillman grew up in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, Manhattan and Washington, D.C. He attended Harvard where he was an editor of the Harvard Crimson before working in book and magazine publishing. He has written and directed five films, including Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress, and the forthcoming Love & Friendship, as well as the pilot for a series, The Cosmopolitans. His novel, The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards won the 2014 Prix Fitzgerald in France. He has written for the Voice, Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, The Guardian, El Pais and other publications.