Thanks for the reminder that METROPOLITAN is on Watch TCM. I watched it last night. I really like this movie as well as Walt Stillman's later THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO.Cuthbert wrote: ↑January 15th, 2023, 7:35 pm Metropolitan (1990)
Directed by Whit Stillman
TCM On Demand
This movie is on my ten-best list. It’s one of the great New York movies and is my favorite New York Christmas movie. Shot on location, it has the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, great shots of Manhattan neighbourhoods and buildings, and even a trip to the Hamptons.
Stillman's dialogue is comic brilliance. The actors don't play it for laughs, but it's hilariously funny (more so because it's played seriously).
The part that always makes me laugh is Chris Eigeman's character Nick Smith's response when a female character tells him: "You’re a snob, a sexist, totally obnoxious and tiresome. And lately you’ve gotten just weird.”
Nick responds: "I am not tiresome."
I also love the cab's driver's response when Taylor Nichols's character Charlie Black pays him for the cab ride from Manhattan to the Hamptons: "What is this s***?"