- The Last Days of Disco
Infobox Film
name = The Last Days of Disco
caption = DVD cover
director =Whit Stillman
producer = Edmon Roch
Cecilia Kate Rogue
writer = Whit Stillman
starring =Chloë Sevigny Kate Beckinsale Chris Eigeman Mackenzie Astin Matt Keeslar Robert Sean Leonard Jennifer Beals Matt Ross Tara Subkoff Burr Steers David Thornton
music = Mark Suozzo
cinematography = John Thomas
editing =Andrew Hafitz
Jay Pires
distributor =Gramercy Pictures Castle Rock Entertainment
released =May 29 , 1998
runtime = 113 min.
country = flagicon|United States
language = English
preceded_by = "Metropolitan" (1990)
"Barcelona" (1994)
website = http://www.lastdaysofdisco.com/
imdb_id = 0120728"The Last Days of Disco" is a 1998
movie written and directed byWhit Stillman ."The Last Days of Disco" is the third film in Whit Stillman's trilogy that began with "Metropolitan" and continued with his acclaimed "Barcelona".
In
2000 Whit Stillman published a part-novelization of the film: "The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards"."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 ofIvy League - and Hampshire-educatedManhattanites , recently graduated from college and law school, falling in and out of love in the urban environment of the very early 1980s disco scene."The Last Days of Disco" was released on
VHS andDVD formats in 1999. Since then, its production in these formats has been discontinued.Plot
"The Last Days of Disco" 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?
Cast
External links
*imdb title|id=0120728|title=The Last Days of Disco
* [http://www.whitstillman.org/films/the-last-days-of-disco/ Phil's whitstillman.org "TLDOD" page ] (links and information on the film)
* [http://www.lastdaysofdisco.com Official site] (pictures have been removed, but the text is still available)
* [http://www.lastdaysofdisco.com/review.html "TLDOD" review page ] (reviews of the film by noteworthy critics)
* [http://www.slate.com/id/3779/entry/24983/ excerpts from Stillman's journal] while making "Last Days of Disco"
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