Read 35 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 100. The Last Days of Disco ... ''The Last Days of Disco,'' in the works long before disco revivals became the rage on screen, is … Published May 30, 2019 . Nathalie Atkinson. For all the truck disco has been given over the years, it really was a remarkable period of music. Film Review. The filmmakers had to share the location with … The Last Days of Disco 1998 ★★★★★ Rewatched Feb 14, 2020. Ben Romero’s review published on Letterboxd: That auto-tune amazing grace made me ascend. OK 69102; CD). The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and Tickets Block this member This member is blocked; Report this review; Ben liked this review. If The Last Days of Disco is Stillman’s masterpiece is because it’s the one that most clear articulates the ways one witness unaware our slow decay towards barbarism, the idea that ultimate links all his four historical films. Third, Last Days of Disco is a paean to that danceable sound. Genres: Disco, Film Soundtrack. Unsurprisingly, The Last Days of Disco takes disco music, as well as the fleeting subculture which crystallized around it, as its object of wide-eyed study and reclamation, and it does so with a great deal of warmth and intelligence. The Last Days of Disco (1998) Two young women (Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale) and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York. His new film, The Last Days of Disco, is his best yet. The Last Days of Disco (1998) Like Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco is a very funny movie, although you might not know it the first time you see it. Published May 30, 2019 Updated May 30, 2019 . The New Deal/Civil Rights regime had gradually fallen apart and was replaced by a new constitutional order – the conservative regime in which we have been living for the past three decades. Set in “the very early 1980s,” it is a warm, touching, funny look back at a time when the first young, educated generation to come to maturity after the social devastation of the 1960s and early 70s tried in its own rather feckless and ramshackle way to reconstruct a social life for young adults. Filming took place in various New York City locations, and the structure used for the disco was an oldmovie theater in Jersey City, New Jersey, that was in the process of being renovated. Le Roy, c’est moi: Halston’s last days of disco. Stillman’s phrasing is so specific and dry that you might mistake the setup for the joke and miss it altogether while you’re still thinking about the first part. Released 26 May 1998 on Work (catalog no. One stumbles upward, while the world around it just awkwardly disappears. Yes, there was a lot of garbage--as there is with any musical movement--but the amount of innovation that took place during the years of … Block or Report. FILM REVIEW; Night Life of the the Young, Urban and Genteel. The good times don't exactly roll in "The Last Days of Disco," which is as interesting to watch for its serious disjuncture between style and content as for its cute cast and fabulous soundtrack. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. Set in the early ’80s, The Last Days of Disco (1998, R, 1 hr., 53 mins.) Special to The Globe and Mail . is like a lockjaw version of Saturday Night Fever, with Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale as … The Last Days of Disco, a Various Artists Compilation. The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterward book. Read the latest news, features and the Empire review of the film. Americans last experienced this sense of dysfunction during the late 1970s and early 1980s – the "last days of disco."