In the case of Damsels in Distress, the created world is Seven Oaks University, which has all the earmarks of being one of those expensive schools for not very bright people. At the very least, most ...

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The last trailer ends. The movie starts. You watch the first scene unfold. And a slow sick worry begins to build in your belly: Am I really going to have to spend the next hour-and-a-half with these ...

In our culture of immediacy, Whit Stillman has always refused to be a slave to the present – a refusal that first earned him a devoted following and then deprived him of a livelihood. In the 14 years ...

With Burns & Allen co-starred with the screen's No. 1 tapster, A Damsel in Distress holds plenty - dancing, comedy, the usual sumptuous investiture accorded by Pandro Berman and RKO to any Astaire ...

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From Rapunzel trapped up in her tower to legions of scream queens hitting high decibels, the damsel in distress trope is long rooted in sweet, helpless characters incapable of staying out of trouble.

Rather than Mean Girls, these damsels are philanthropists, on a mission to save their fellow students from depression, mediocrity and low standards. Their ringerleader Violet (Greta Gerwig) leads the ...

Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. The 'damsel in distress' trope is a common female character archetype, in which a ...

Who knew anal sex could be so quirky and whimsical? Roping together everything from college-comedy stereotypes (toga parties, campus cliques, etc) to the origin of dance crazes to Catharism, ...

Whit Stillman's whimsical campus comedy "Damsels in Distress" is an utter delight. Sweet-natured Violet (Gerwig, “Greenberg”) and her coed coevals Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke, “24,” “That ’70s Show”) ...