Early-release still from Damsels in DistressDAMSELS IN DISTRESS.Little since Gary Winnick's
Tadpole and Burr Steers's
Igby Goes Down, both from 2002, has anything quite come close to equaling the wit of Whit Stilolman, whose
Metropolitan, Barcelona, and Last Days of Disco (1990, 1994, 1998) were some of the brightest American movies of the Nineties. Now, finally, after a thirteen-year absence from the big screen, Stillman has a new feature to be released this year. It is called
Damsels in Distress. It features Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody. A Whit Stillman
website gives further information about the movie, which is to be released by Sony Classics.
Sept. 2011: there is a trailer for Stillman's
Damsels in Distress from the NY Times
online.