Filmmaker Whit Stillman will be in Toronto on December 12th and 13th thanks to a joint effort by The Seventh Art and The Royal Cinema.

Stillman will present a film each night, Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco, and discuss his work as a whole following each screening. The event will mark the first in the newly created The Seventh Art Live Director Series presented by The Royal, which will bring important directors to Toronto to screen and discuss their films.

“We’re thrilled to kick off the series at the Royal with Whit, a great contemporary American filmmaker” said The Seventh Art co-producer Pavan Moondi. “The consistency of his films fits the series perfectly,” said fellow co-producer, Brian Robertson.

The first night, Wednesday, December 12th, will showcase Stillman’s breakout hit, Metropolitan (1990), while the next night features the cult favourite, The Last Days of Disco (1998). The filmmaker will be joined by The Seventh Art’s Christopher Heron for a conversation on the topic of each night’s film and a moderated Q&A with the audience.

“We’re overjoyed with the opportunity to host such a fabled filmmaker in Toronto and to partner with The Seventh Art” said Stacey Donen of The Royal.

The Seventh Art is an independently produced video magazine about cinema with profiles on interesting aspects of the film industry, video essays and in-depth interviews with filmmakers. The production is based in Toronto, Canada and releases an online issue once a month. Originally built in 1939, The Royal is an historic Art Moderne movie house located in the heart of Little Italy. The Royal continues to operate in the evenings as an indie/art house cinema.

Tickets will be sold in advance through The Royal’s website for $15 per screening, or $20 for both. Tickets will also be available at the door for $20 each night. Make sure to make it out to one, if not both, of these screenings. It promises to be quite an interesting set of screenings.