'Damsels In Distress'
After directing a trio of highbrow preppy comedies in the ’90s (Metropolitan, Barcelona), Whit Stillman disappeared. Now he’s back with this delightfully deadpan, elegantly anachronistic campus movie. What took him so long? Maybe he’s been waiting for a girl like Greta Gerwig to come along.
In the 28-year-old, the director has found his soulmate: here’s an actress who delivers his hyper-literate dialogue with aplomb, who has an air of having spent her teens listening to Jacques Brel and watching ‘Annie Hall’ on repeat. She stars as Violet, the ringleader of a gang of girls at an East Coast American university whose mission is to make college life more fragrant: they’re not so much mean girls as girls who mean well.
Other New September Titles
ART OF LOVE, THE (2011)
BIRDSONG (2012)
ECSTASY (2011)
LADY, THE (2011)
WAY, THE (2010)
W.E. (2011)
AVENGERS, THE (2012)
AVENGERS, THE (2012) BLU-RAY
JESS + MOSS (2011)
PINA (2011)
SONS OF ANARCHY (2010) SEASON 3
WISH YOU WERE HERE (2012)
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (2011)
GOLD RUSH, THE (1925)
TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS (2010)
LIFEBOAT (1944)
DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967)
SUCH GOOD FRIENDS (1971)
LONDON TALES (1958 | 1966 | 1976)
WONDERFUL LONDON (1924)
GAME OF THRONES SEASON 1 (2011) DISCS 3-5
SOURCE, THE (2011)
GRAY'S ANATOMY (1996) CRITERION
BULLHEAD (2011)
39 STEPS, THE (1935) CRITERION
RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (1967)
PITFALL (1948)
BREAKING POINT, THE (1950)
CONFLICT (1945)
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY (1951)
INNKEEPERS, THE (2011)
WELCOME TO THE RILEYS (2010)
NOEL FIELDING'S LUXURY COMEDY (2012)
HUNGER GAMES, THE (2012)
HUNGER GAMES, THE (2012) BLU-RAY
PEARLS OF THE DEEP (1966)
AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE (2010) CRITERION
INTO THE ABYSS (2011)
SURVIVING LIFE (THEORY AND PRACTICE) (2010)
BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEER'S JOURNEY (2011)
GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE (2011)
HIDDEN FACE, THE (2011)
LE HAVRE (2011)
RAID, THE (2011)
DARD DIVORCE (2007)
AN AMERICAN ROMANCE (1944)
After directing a trio of highbrow preppy comedies in the ’90s (Metropolitan, Barcelona), Whit Stillman disappeared. Now he’s back with this delightfully deadpan, elegantly anachronistic campus movie. What took him so long? Maybe he’s been waiting for a girl like Greta Gerwig to come along. In the 28-year-old, the director has found his soulmate: here’s an actress who delivers his hyper-literate dialogue with aplomb, who has an air of having spent her teens listening to Jacques Brel and watching ‘Annie Hall’ on repeat. She stars as Violet, the ringleader of a gang of girls at an East Coast American university whose mission is to make college life more fragrant: they’re not so much mean girls as girls who mean well.
Other New September Titles
ART OF LOVE, THE (2011)
BIRDSONG (2012)
ECSTASY (2011)
LADY, THE (2011)
WAY, THE (2010)
W.E. (2011)
AVENGERS, THE (2012)
AVENGERS, THE (2012) BLU-RAY
JESS + MOSS (2011)
PINA (2011)
SONS OF ANARCHY (2010) SEASON 3
WISH YOU WERE HERE (2012)
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (2011)
GOLD RUSH, THE (1925)
TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS (2010)
LIFEBOAT (1944)
DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967)
SUCH GOOD FRIENDS (1971)
LONDON TALES (1958 | 1966 | 1976)
WONDERFUL LONDON (1924)
GAME OF THRONES SEASON 1 (2011) DISCS 3-5
SOURCE, THE (2011)
GRAY'S ANATOMY (1996) CRITERION
BULLHEAD (2011)
39 STEPS, THE (1935) CRITERION
RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON (1967)
PITFALL (1948)
BREAKING POINT, THE (1950)
CONFLICT (1945)
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY (1951)
INNKEEPERS, THE (2011)
WELCOME TO THE RILEYS (2010)
NOEL FIELDING'S LUXURY COMEDY (2012)
HUNGER GAMES, THE (2012)
HUNGER GAMES, THE (2012) BLU-RAY
PEARLS OF THE DEEP (1966)
AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE (2010) CRITERION
INTO THE ABYSS (2011)
SURVIVING LIFE (THEORY AND PRACTICE) (2010)
BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEER'S JOURNEY (2011)
GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE (2011)
HIDDEN FACE, THE (2011)
LE HAVRE (2011)
RAID, THE (2011)
DARD DIVORCE (2007)
AN AMERICAN ROMANCE (1944)