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Encyclopedia > The Last Days of Disco


The Last Days of Disco is a 1998 movie directed by Whit Stillman. This is a list of film-related events in 1998. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Whit Stillman is a writer-director, known for his sly depictions of the urban haute bourgeoisie, for which he has been called the WASP Woody Allen. He has to date filmed three comedies of manners (or comedies of mannerlessness): Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), and The Last Days of Disco (1998...


The Last Days of Disco is the third film in Whit Stillman's trilogy that began with Metropolitan and continued with his acclaimed Barcelona.


The movie loosely depicts the "last days" at a disco palace, where drugs, sex and weirdness ran rampant. The story centers around a group of friends who frequent the disco and each other. All the characters are searching for something to make their lives more fulfilling. Some are searching for everlasting love and some are just wanting something different. As the disco is closed, they all wonder can disco ever really be dead?


The Last Days of Disco was loosely based on Stillman's travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, and possibly at Studio 54. Much like Metropolitan, the film deals with a group of Ivy League and Amherst Manhattanites, recently graduated from college and law school, falling in and out of love in the urban environment of the very early 1980s disco scene.


Tagline: History is made at night


Main cast

Chloë Sevigny (born November 18, 1974 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American actress and model of Polish [1] and French descent. ... Beckinsale in Underworld Kate Beckinsale (born July 26, 1973 in London, England) is an English actress. ... Mackenzie Astin in Facts of Life Mackenzie Alexander Astin (born 12 May 1973) is an American actor. ... Robert Sean Leonard (born Robert Lawrence Leonard on February 28, 1969, in Westwood, New Jersey) is an American actor who is most noted for his role as an aspiring actor, Neil Perry, in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society. ... Jennifer Beals Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former teen model and American film actress who is best known for her role as Alex Owens in the 1983 movie Flashdance. ... Chris Eigeman (born March 1, 1965, Denver, Colorado) is an American actor best known for roles in the Whit Stillman films Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco. ...

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WXYC's In/Audible/Online: THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (1575 words)
Disco definitely lost much of its popularity with the end of the decade of its birth, but in actuality, it was only disco’s life as a popular, commercially successful musical form that came to a temporary end.
The Allmusic guide defines disco as a music that grew out of the soul and funk grooves of the early ‘70s while changing their formulas by valuing the beat over vocals and instrumentation, thereby giving way to a music that was made expressly for dancing at nightclubs.
Disco mastermind Giorgio Moroder, responsible for giving Donna Summer to the world, created this all-electronic dance album at the height of the disco craze (Saturday Night Fever came out the same year) when no one was ready to give up their strings and horns.
Salon Entertainment | "The Last Days of Disco" (1009 words)
It's the early 1980s, and the princessy Charlotte couldn't be more pleased with the disco scene: "I think it's really important that a person be in control of their own destiny," she explains in one of many lectures directed at the reserved Alice, as she surveys the glittering dance floor.
The pleasures in "The Last Days of Disco" come when the friends rant and quarrel and sulk and circle each other with an unstable mixture of need and resentment.
Seeing "The Last Days of Disco" and revisiting "Metropolitan" eight years after Stillman made his feature debut is a reminder that observational comedy existed before a certain much-lamented sitcom.
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