Filmmaking
Stillman wrote and directed three comedies of manners (or "comedies of mannerlessness") released in the 1990s: Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), and The Last Days of Disco (1998); he also published a novel based on the last of these films. After completing his film trilogy, Stillman departed from independent comedy and started researching and writing a series of scripts set abroad. The weekend that The Last Days of Disco was released, he left his loft conversion in Manhattan's SoHo and relocated to Paris. He returned to New York in 2009.
A fourth film, Damsels in Distress, was released in 2011, premiering out of competition as the closing film at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.
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