Tag: Whit Stillman

Best of 2016: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Theatrical Releases: Picks 20 to 11

To the relief of many, the final, strenuous chapter of the anxiety-inducing and emotionally toxic year 2016 draws to a close this week. As...

Criterion Collection: Barcelona | Blu-ray Review

Criterion resurrects Whit Stillman’s 1994 sophomore film, Barcelona, previously the indie auteur’s most neglected title and heretofore unavailable on DVD. Breaking a fourteen year...

Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2016 Sundance Film Fest Top Ten

Sundance 2016 has come to a close, once more showcasing a lack of differentiation based on what constitutes the Audience and the Grand Jury....

Sundance ’16: Reichardt, Marston, Sachs, Solondz, Stillman & Lonergan Among Premieres

Sundance programmers have unveiled what is a jaw-dropping, savoury Premieres line-up. With names such as Asif Kapadia (Ali & Nino), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Joshua...

Cinema Italiano: 2015 Venice Film Festival Predictions

Now that we’ve come out of the Cannes ether, we can examine several of the names glaringly absent from the lineup that may potentially...

Criterion Collection: Metropolitan Blu-ray Review

With this past Spring’s release of Damsels In Distress, his first new title in thirteen years, the Criterion Collection has refurbished two Whit Stillman...

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