Whit Stillman's whimsical campus comedy "Damsels in Distress" is an utter delight. Sweet-natured Violet (Gerwig, “Greenberg”) and her coed coevals Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke, “24,” “That ’70s Show”) ...

There was a time when Whit Stillman appeared poised to take over for Woody Allen as the chronicler of upper crust East Coast urbanity and its attendant idiocy, before disappearing for a decade. With ...

Whit Stillman, whose “Damsels in Distress” closes the Venice Festival on Saturday, still plans to make “Dancing Mood,” about young people in the Kingston, Jamaica, church music scene in 1962 through ...

One stop on the path to understanding Greta Gerwig’s enormous success as co-writer and director of the megahit “Barbie” is her mid-acting career role as Violet, a know-it-all college student in Whit ...

In recent years, the game developers at Nintendo have been taking a different approach to the company’s most famous damsels in distress. I’m referring, of course, to Princess Peach, Princess Zelda, ...

Filmmaker Whit Stillman has made a mere 4 movies over the span of 23 years, his first three films grossing less than $15 million combined. His style of writing is abrasive for many, as is his ...