The Last Days of Disco
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Movie Reviews of The Last Days of Disco
Movie Review: Last Days works as a talkie
Summary: 4 Stars
Another review of this film lead me to pipe in. Another has suggested that this film does not work as a "talkie". Being a writer like another reviewer here, (as if that matters at all) I can tell you that this film does work. While I would not argue with anyone claiming Metropolitan or Barcelona to be superior to this film, Last Days does work as an intellegent film with entertaining dialoge.Movie Review: New DVD coming from Criterion in August 2009!
Summary: 4 Stars
Good news for fans of Whit Stilman's wonderful "The Last Days of Disco": Criterion will be releasing a new DVD of this film packed with special features in August 2009. So, if like me, you have been searching for an elusive copy of this great film at a decent price, it will soon be available in an all new pristine print with some great bonuses.Movie Review: Fabulous film - if only I were allowed to see the DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
The atmosphere and sheer style were great. The sense of one age coming to an end and another, somehow harder, one beginning was so clear.If only we lesser, Region 2, mortals were allowed to watch. Where were the anti-trust lawyers when region coding was invented by the industry?
Movie Review: Another look back to a time when clubbing was fun
Summary: 4 Stars
This and 54 were released almost at the same time and while 54 was focused on the club Last Days focuses on the lives of the people that went to the discos. Great soundtrack and really reflects that era.Movie Review: I lived through disco; it wasn't like this
Summary: 3 Stars
This film is apparently the finale of a trilogy by the director, meaning he put together three of the talkiest 20-something flicks in history! I'm pretty sure no one in real life talks the way people do in this flick -- going on for paragraphs while walking down the sidewalk in groupls extolling of the virtue of the answer to the question, "Why is there air?"
Having been born in 1950 and lived through the disco era as an age-appropriate partner to the people in this film, I can tell you the disco era was far from what is portrayed herein. I saw this flick twice and am at a loss trying to understand its point. Is it that discos were -- in the eye of this director -- full of pretentious intellectuals? One of these used the phrase YUPPIE to describe himself. Get a clue brother -- yuppies weren't invented until the 1980s.
Perhaps I am being a tad difficult with the incongruously fatuous history going on in this movie, but it struck me as the daydream of someone that came to adulthood in the 1990s and appears to be their fantasy of what life was like in the 1970s. Even the venereal disease that's spread in this flick wasn't commonplace in 1979!
Maybe it's better to watch the other members of the trilogy talkfest before taking on this one. Maybe 1990s characters actually carry on their lengthy collective babble in their own time in "Metropolitan".