According to numerous online sources Whit Stillman is putting the finishing touches on a romantic comedy with the working title Damsels in Distress.
I'll believe it when I see it. After all, the elusive writer/director hasn't released a film since 1998.
So while those of us who are fans continue to wait, here is a look at his three previous works.
Metropolitan (Rated PG-13 98 mins.)
A group of well-read and well-bred young men and sophisticated young women sit around and discuss contemporary morality, French films, Jane Austen novels and the decline of preppiedom.
Gradually the outlines of a sweet, funny and touching romance begin to take shape.
Stillman explores the lives of Manhattan's privileged young elite with the sharp observant wit of a slacker Woody Allen and the insight of a cinematic sociologist.
His wise, warm and slyly humorous script earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
That's an impressive achievement, especially when you consider that this 1990 effort marked his filmmaking debut.
(Legend has it Stillman sold his apartment in New York City to finance the film. In addition to writing and directing Stillman also produced all three of the films listed here.)
Barcelona (Rated PG-13 104 mins.)
Two young upper class Americans, Fred (Chris Eigeman) and Ted (Taylor Nichols) search for love, the ideal career and a good party in early 1980s Spain in this droll 1994 follow-up to Metropolitan.
(Both Eigeman and Nichols appeared in Stillman's debut feature. Watch for a pre-Oscar Mira Sorvino as a Spanish party girl.)
Stillman's screenplay bristles with canny wit (and political references) as the filmmaker explores the depth of anti-American sentiment during the time period in which the film is set.
Stillman knows the territory well. He worked in the Spanish film industry in the 1980s. In fact, his former wife is from Barcelona.
The Last Days of Disco (14A 113 mins.)
Two twentysomething college grads, Alice (Chloe Sevigny) and Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) take a bite out of Big Apple nightlife in this 1998 comedy set in the fading days of the disco craze in early 1980s New York City.
By day the girls toil in low paying jobs in the publishing business.
By night they drink, dance and make conversation with other bright, witty, upscale young people at "The Club" (a thinly disguised version of then popular NYC nightspot Studio 54).
Stillman gets great mileage out of his talented young cast. Sevigny is charmingly demure as the shy and reserved Alice. Her character contrasts nicely with Beckinsale's wickedly alert performance as the smug, backstabbing Charlotte.
In addition to future stars Sevigny (Oscar nominee, Boys Don't Cry) and Beckinsale (Underworld, Click, Laurel Canyon) the cast includes Robert Sean Leonard (now starring on TV's House) and Burr Steers (writer/director of 2002's acclaimed Igby Goes Down and other films).
Stillman regular Chris Eigeman is in this one, too. The actor lends a wonderfully ironic touch to his role as Des, the club's ethically challenged manager.
The highly verbal script is bursting with the kind of smart, literate dialogue fans have come to expect from Stillman's screenplays.
However, this is more than a period comedy for nostalgic viewers.
The script deals with issues of friendship and loyalty in a shifting moral landscape that are as relevant today as they were over a decade ago.
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