Violet Wister, the would-be campus reformer played by Greta Gerwig in Whit Stillman’s weird, wacky and mostly wonderful college comedy “Damsels in Distress,” arguably doesn’t make much of a heroine.

In our culture of immediacy, Whit Stillman has always refused to be a slave to the present – a refusal that first earned him a devoted following and then deprived him of a livelihood. In the 14 years ...

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”) ...

The college-set comedy of manners Damsels in Distress —the first movie in 12 years from ‘90s indie icon Whit Stillman (the unique mind behind Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of ...

In a movie as stylized as Whit Stillman’s “Damsels in Distress,”decor is destiny, so it’s no accident that the dorm room shared by Violet (Greta Gerwig) and her roommates at a northeastern liberal ...

Sixteen Disney princesses walk into a room… No, this isn’t a joke, it’s Damsels, Dice, and Everything Nice! This new scripted Dungeons & Dragons play series features all of your favorite ...

Throughout the world of people old enough to remember the American indie filmmakers of the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was quiet rejoicing as word trickled out that Whit Stillman had made a new ...

The Greta Gerwig comedy, the director's first in 12 years, tells the story of three young girls trying to change life at an American university. By Eric J. Lyman NEW YORK - APRIL 19: Director Whit ...

Damsels in Distress (Sony Pictures Classics), Whit Stillman’s first film since 1998’s The Last Days of Disco and only the fourth in his 22-year career, might be described as stubbornly peculiar. Like ...