The Last Days of Disco

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Summary: Staying still Alive !
Review: This movie is excellent because it avoids the "Saturday Night Fever" clichés in order to concentrate on the characters. The casting is brilliant, especially Chloé Sevigny. She resolves an unsolvable problem : being a blonde girl in a club without looking like a bitch or a teaser. Alongside with Gummo and Kids, this makes her able to become one of the best american young actresses.

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Summary: Stupid and self-indelgent
Review: I can't believe I wasted my time watching this movie. I was expecting some good music and interest circumstance...but instead I encountered some lousy acting and some people I absolutely disliked.

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Summary: Excellent insite into 1980's
Review: Quality film. A bit forced in some areas but overall a very good cultural examination of the early 1980s.

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Summary: This movie is pretty sweet
Review: This movie totally awesome dude.The acting was sweet,The dialog was witty, and the feel was that of its era

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Summary: Extremely funny but not for everyone
Review: One of the funniest movies I have seen. The movie is dialogue driven, so it is not for people with MTV attention spans. If you enjoy the movie you will most likely like it as much or more the second time. The recreation of the early 80s seemed as accurate as possible. There are many lines worth memorizing. I would highly recommend it to anyone with some patience.

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Summary: Trite and forced
Review: I was really disappointed in this film after all of the reviews I had seen and heard from respectable sources. I found the dialogue to be witty and creative many times, but the artifical cast and phony scenes made it seem completely self-serving and flat. I do understand the characters were intended to be shallow and often laughable, but something more than surface glibness would have been nice. Sevigny's character was the only one with any humanity or depth. While it can be a good time to laugh at the self-absorbed, two hours of watching ineffectual, spoiled kids from NYC lost its appeal. Besides, I highly doubt the velvet ropes of high-profile late 70's & early 80's clubs would have parted for the lukewarm Ivy League guys in this flick.

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Summary: Dull!
Review: Was totally surprised that this film got any good press whatsoever! The acting is not as good as that you'd see in a high school play--lustreless, wooden--the scene is nothing like a real disco--it's clean, roomy and not thick with smoke. Discos--even the best, at there best, were crowded, smokey, and filled with debauchery, music so loud you had to scream to be heard, and drugs everywhere. This is inaccurate as well as boring.

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Summary: The 70s never looked so good
Review: Having seen this film, sadly the last of Stillman's trilogy, I was glad to see how well put this film was. The soundtrack is particularly good. The film itself reminded me a bit of "Metropolitan" and the character of Tom Townsend, only it was now Sevigny's character. Stillman's films have a melancholy feel to them at times, and justifiably so because life can be that way. His characters, at least one and it's usually the protagonist, are prudes but in a likeable way. I think that is the way to sum up a Stillman film. I don't know if I liked disco music as much prior to becoming a Stillman afficionado or if it came about because of him. In his films I'll miss the tying elements (though not all these elements are prevalent in all three): sharp, witty dialogue, disco music, literary references, dressing sharp and the always present relationships-theme.

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Summary: I enjoyed this film.
Review: Walt Stillman is a master at directing. Like Frank Capra, you could watch (or listen) to one of his films and tell it's a Stillman picture. Metropolitan and Barcelona are also great pictures. My only complaint is that Last Days.... is the only one of his movies out on DVD. I hope the distributor eventually releases the others. It would be a crime if they didn't. So if you, the distributor, are reading this, please release Metropolitan and Barcelona on DVD. My copies are wearing thin.

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Summary: A Masterpiece!
Review: "The Last Days of Disco" was just as thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining as Whit Stillman's two previous efforts ("Metropolitan" and "Barcelona"). Because the characters are so well developed, complex and rich, I saw this movie more than once in the movie theater. A lot has been said on how narcissistic the main characters are. The only thing I can say to that is: "Wasn't disco dancing a form of narcissism?" I believe Stillman portrayed his characters and the era as accurately as possible. Moreover, the dialogue is first rate. Considering a lot of American independent filmmakers are trying to be crude, violent and low-class like Tarantino films--it's nice to know that there's at least one American independent filmmaker who isn't "following the crowd."