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3	->''"For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times."''
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5	John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (born January 25, 1952 in Washington, D.C.) is an American screenwriter and director who lives in Spain. He's very fond of [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]]s, {{Yuppie}}s and the like, and often makes films [[WriteWhatYouKnow based on his own experiences]]. His work has frequently been compared with that of both Creator/WoodyAllen and Creator/JaneAusten.
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7	The son of Democratic politician John Sterling Stillman (who was classmates with UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy at Harvard and later served in Kennedy's commerce department), Stillman originally worked as a literary editor and illustrator in New York City and also got involved in importing films from Spain to America. After years of writing screenplays while working his day job, he finally secured the financing to film one of them: ''Film/{{Metropolitan}}''. It became a hit on the budding indie circuit, and led Stillman to become a full-time filmmaker, although you certainly couldn't call his working pace "hectic"; he's directed just five feature films over the course of three decades. Many of his scripts have languished in DevelopmentHell.
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9	His protégé is Creator/NoahBaumbach.
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12	!!Filmography:
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14	* ''Film/{{Metropolitan}}'' (1990) -- A sullen, middle-class young socialist from Princeton falls in with a group of wealthy socialites over Christmas break in [[PresentDayPast "1970s"]] [[BigApplesauce Manhattan]].
15	* ''Film/{{Barcelona}}'' (1994) -- A naval officer crashes at his troubled cousin's Barcelona apartment in TheEighties. Together they meet women and get into lots of arguments about the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. This is Stillman's best-known film.
16	* ''Film/TheLastDaysOfDisco'' (1998) -- A group of unlikely friends hang out at a trendy, Studio 54-type Manhattan discotheque in 1980–81. The club is under investigation, and the prosecutor might be insane. This film was an obscure flop and remained so until [[VindicatedByCable its release on DVD by the Criterion Collection 11 years later]], renewing interest in Stillman's work and encouraging him to make...
17	* ''Film/DamselsInDistress'' (2011) -- Three girls try to class up their trashy university, leading them to take an interest in questionable male students. An AffectionateParody of 1980s college comedies, though it's set in the present day.
18	* ''[[Film/LoveAndFriendship Love & Friendship]]'' (2016) -- In 18th century England, a young widow tries to play matchmaker for her daughter and herself. An adaptation of a Creator/JaneAusten novel, but, confusingly, the novel is ''Literature/LadySusan'', not ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship''.
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