Dir. Noah Baumbach. Starring Jason Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, Olivia D’Abo Image links back here The difference between Metropolitan and Kicking and Screaming is about a decade’s worth of perspective. Watching Kicking and Screaming I wished that Whit Stillman had been the one making it rather than Baumbach in the way that people prefer butter to margarine. (The presence of Chris… Read More Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Dir. Whit Stillman. Starring Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Tushka Bergen Barcelona is the middle film in a loose trilogy, placed between Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco. I’ve briefly reviewed the former, while the latter has its own essay. In the final act of Barcelona, before the rapid and dizzy epilogue that sees Ted… Read More Barcelona (1994)
You can read up on the basis for this series here, and also find links to other posts in the series. Movies I’ve reviewed on this site have a link in the title which you can use to read my full review. 5) Election (1999), directed by Alexander Payne. I’ve written this a thousand times,… Read More 100 Exceptional American Movies in 10 Genres: Young Adult, 5-1
Dir. Whit Stillman. Starring Chloe Sevigny, Chris Eigeman, Kate Beckinsale No one with a name seems able to have fun in The Last Days of Disco, and no one is keen to expose him- or herself as a genuine human being. Obviously, this is a tricky line to walk in a discotheque, perhaps to the… Read More The Last Days of Disco (1998)
Seeing Things Secondhand 