Thank you Popwatch for bringing to my attention that Whit Stillman's classic Metropolitan is now streaming for free on Hulu (http://www.hulu.com/watch/30659/metropolitan) Hooray!
If you have not seen Stillman's films before, Metropolitan is the first in a trilogy with Barcelona and Last Days of Disco and all are simply wonderful. Stillman has a real ear for intelligent dialogue and all of the films contain lengthy, erudite and entertaining debates (such as Last Days of Disco's debate as to why Lady would pick the Tramp). In addition, all three feature the hilarious Chris Eigeman who steals every scene he is in. Eigeman is an actor we just don't see enough of these days but if you want to catch another one of his classic films, check out Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming.
The Stillman movies are hard to find so do take advantage of the Hulu screening. I at some point had caught all three on my DVR but lost them when I had to switch to the new digital cable box - let's all campaign for them to release the trilogy on DVD stat!
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