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 ...

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 ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

Whit Stillman's whimsical campus comedy "Damsels in Distress" is an utter delight. Among their other projects (Violet’s lifelong ambition is to invent a new dance craze) and philanthropic enterprises, ...

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