The Last Days of Disco
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Movie Reviews of The Last Days of Disco
Movie Review: Excellent Buy!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this CD for my boyfriend, who has been keeping an eye on it for sometime now but the prices were too high. We both feel we got the best deal/price. The CD is in excellent shape including the cover.Movie Review: In one word witty
Summary: 5 Stars
The exchanges between Sevingy an Beckinsale are worth the price of the movie alone.This movie dosent try to give some sort of message it just lets you watch a bunch of interseting charecters well acted.Movie Review: Excellent insite into 1980's
Summary: 5 Stars
Quality film. A bit forced in some areas but overall a very good cultural examination of the early 1980s.Movie Review: 5 star fun
Summary: 5 Stars
i usually dont like reflective movies but this was witty and beckinsale's charecter is very strong.Movie Review: Disco Generation
Summary: 4 Stars
If it were not for Whit Stillman -- the producer, writer and director of The Last Days of Disco -- I might have completely lost faith in original American filmmaking. As it is, he is my favorite living American director. His films show his tight grasp on the lost art of dialogue and repartee, and his characters are lively with the wit he infuses in them. When The Jazz Singer was released in 1927 it set the modern stage with talking pictures; in the `90s a talkie could be anything that Whit Stillman has written. TLDOD is the story of six upper class college graduates finding their way in life among the disco clubs of the early `80s. Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) and Alice (Chloë Sevigny) knew each other at college and ruminate on their marriage prospects among the enthusiasts ("I could never go out with someone in advertising" Charlotte declares.) There is Des (Chris Eigeman) who is manager of an exclusive club in N.Y. and his advertising executive-in-training buddy, Jimmy (MacKenzie Astin), who constantly brings his clients to the club to impress them. Later on, Josh (Matthew Keeslar) shows up as the young A.D.A. who had a manic depressive experience in college.
Charlotte eventually ends up with what she despises, Jimmy, and Alice tries her hand with Tom (Robert Sean Leonard), an environmental lawyer. After a one-night stand where she used a few patented lines Charlotte suggested he confronts her wide-eyed that he loathes the dating and mating game that they have played and thinks her somewhat slutty. She did it for image and to stay in the "in" crowd and got burned.
Ms. Beckinsale plays Charlotte to a tee as the pretty friend who is self-absorbed and catlike in her admonishments to Alice: she says matter-of-factly that she would be considered cuter than Alice by "most standards" and, after Alice declines an alcoholic beverage, inquires in front of everyone if Alice has contracted a venereal disease. Chris Eigeman is his wonderfully sardonic self (his pairings with Stillman make him not unlike Lynch/MacLachlan or Truffaut/Léaud in memorable collaborations) and fleshes out Des as the smarmy cad that he is.
In the best scene I witnessed this year there was a roundtable discussion of the merits of Lady and the Tramp by all the key players. From Alice finally finding and asserting her voice and Des sticking up for the redemptive qualities of Tramp, to Josh agreeing with Alice it is a priceless bit of filmmaking. Only later on does the film turn to a more serious note -- where you see the ugliness of the drug scene for instance-- but the complex story and excellent visual prose overshadow the fringe thematic elements. Though I loathe disco music Stillman crafts one of the best films of this year and creates a memorable movie. As one of the players proclaims about disco: "As you'll remember, for many years there was none." Thank god.