Movies
Chris Eigeman goes from playing tony slackers to a 40ish neurotic in therapy.
June 10, 2007
Famke Janssen learned billiards to play a role tailored for her by writer-director Chris Eigeman.
May 16, 2008
“Barcelona” is only Whit Stillman’s second feature, but he has already staked out a territory and a sensibility quite his own.
Aug. 5, 1994
There’s nothing big about “The Next Big Thing,” a feeble and tedious satire on the New York art scene.
June 14, 2002
Entertainment & Arts
‘Last Days of Disco’ at Cinefamily
May 31, 2012
Actor-TURNED-DIRECtor Chris Eigeman is perhaps best known for his roles as the spiky preppy from Whit Stillman’s 1990s lockjaw trilogy (“Metropolitan,” “Barcelona” and “The Last Days of Disco”), a persona he has more or less reprised in turns on the “Gilmore Girls” and “The Treatment,” in which he costarred with Famke Janssen.
Three from the Criterion Collection $30-$40 THE latest discs from Criterion include two classics from the 1930s and a charming 1990 comedy of manners.
Feb. 12, 2006
Many have long debated whether art imitates life or life imitates art, but in the case of Whit Stillman’s current “Barcelona,” they took turns imitating each other.
Aug. 21, 1994
Metropolitan Writer-director Whit Stillman’s charming 1990 feature debut about a chatty group of New York debutantes and their escorts, a group one of the characters dubs the UHBs (the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie), was an unlikely indie hit amid early ‘90s phenomena such as “Twin Peaks,” Nirvana and the riot grrrl movement.
Oct. 10, 2017
Family Flicks Director Penny Marshall’s 1992 comedy-drama, A League of Their Own, about the World War II-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, stars Geena Davis and Lori Petty as highly competitive sisters.
June 15, 2018