- Actors: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin, Matt Keeslar
- Directors: Whit Stillman
- Writers: Whit Stillman
- Producers: Whit Stillman, Cecilia Kate Roque, Edmon Roch, John Sloss
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Subtitles: French, English, Dutch
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Warner
- DVD Release Date: 19 July 2006
- Run Time: 113 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000FGFB3U
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 85,625 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), French ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: As another installment of Whit Stillman's trilogy, The Last Days of Disco fits chronologically between Metropolitan (1990) and Barcelona (1994), with several cameos overlapping and linking the films. During 'the very early 1980s,' friends gather at a popular Manhattan disco club reminiscent of Studio 54, where getting past the velvet ropes and inside was the first step. Edgy ad-exec Jimmy (Mackenzie Astin) can sometimes get his clients in with the help of the club's womanizing assistant manager, his pal Des (Chris Eigeman), who lets them enter via the rear door. Beautiful brunette Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) and her former college classmate Alice (Chloe Sevigny) move about the club during the 24-minute opening club sequence. Attorney Tom (Robert Sean Leonard) takes an interest in calm, reserved Alice. Both Alice and the opinionated, assertive Charlotte hold day jobs as entry-level editorial associates at a small book publisher. With Holly (Tara Subkoff) as a third roommate, the trio rents a railroad flat in the Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood. Charlotte throws dinner parties in an effort to solidify a social circle as an alternative to 'the ferocious pairing off' around her. ...The Last Days of Disco
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I think this is a very undervalued and under-rated film. It's about two publishing assistants in the early 80s and how they fare at work, at home (they live together), in love and when they go out - to The Club. And they go out a lot!
I challenge any woman who watches this film not to see something that rings true from your late teens/early twenties - the girlfriend who has their sights on your man, the backstabber at work, the nightmare flatmate, the men that you can't help being attracted to even though you know they're no good! Fabulous.
I challenge any woman who watches this film not to see something that rings true from your late teens/early twenties - the girlfriend who has their sights on your man, the backstabber at work, the nightmare flatmate, the men that you can't help being attracted to even though you know they're no good! Fabulous.
Format:DVD
Don't let the title fool you: Last Days of Disco shows the ultimate triumph of the disco movement.
The music and style in Last Days Of Disco represent history's major breakthrough for the smooth or "hairless" movement. You wouldn't know it now -- but before disco, "hairy music" (unkempt, natural, course texture) from acts like BTO, Peter Frampton, and Fleetwood Mac dominated the charts. The hippy ethos of the 1960's had trickled into the mid-seventies, and ruled the top 40 like a shaggy tyrant. And it seemed like nothing could be done to stop it. Good clean-cut people wondered if things would ever be normal again.
Then disco hit the airwaves and "waxed" the hairy music sound right off the radio. Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard a disco song. It was "Let's All Chant" by the Michael Zager Band. I was in grade school playing basketball at recess. One girl had a portable am radio she set courtside. When Steve Martin's "King Tut" ended, "Let's All Chant" came on. All us grade schoolers knew it: The hippy era was over!
When disco took over, a generation of school kids walked with a jaunty stride and blowdried their hair.... Older women - represented so well here by Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Beals, and Tara Subkoff - started having smooth legs and wearing sparkly dresses. In New York City, DJ's started talking over disco, telling jaded New Yorkers to have fun and throw their hands in the air. Thus, "rap" was born, and African-Americans reclaimed the term "rap" from hippies.... Today, people still listen to the classic disco songs of "Last Days", like a glowing aural portrait that chronicles a pivotal time in our history.... People now spend billions each year on hair management products. And people are now the least hairy humans in world history.... Today, disco thrives. As someone once said, "Disco by any other name still has the same beats and high-sheen production values."
Last Days of Disco pays tribute to the brilliant pioneers.
The music and style in Last Days Of Disco represent history's major breakthrough for the smooth or "hairless" movement. You wouldn't know it now -- but before disco, "hairy music" (unkempt, natural, course texture) from acts like BTO, Peter Frampton, and Fleetwood Mac dominated the charts. The hippy ethos of the 1960's had trickled into the mid-seventies, and ruled the top 40 like a shaggy tyrant. And it seemed like nothing could be done to stop it. Good clean-cut people wondered if things would ever be normal again.
Then disco hit the airwaves and "waxed" the hairy music sound right off the radio. Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard a disco song. It was "Let's All Chant" by the Michael Zager Band. I was in grade school playing basketball at recess. One girl had a portable am radio she set courtside. When Steve Martin's "King Tut" ended, "Let's All Chant" came on. All us grade schoolers knew it: The hippy era was over!
When disco took over, a generation of school kids walked with a jaunty stride and blowdried their hair.... Older women - represented so well here by Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Beals, and Tara Subkoff - started having smooth legs and wearing sparkly dresses. In New York City, DJ's started talking over disco, telling jaded New Yorkers to have fun and throw their hands in the air. Thus, "rap" was born, and African-Americans reclaimed the term "rap" from hippies.... Today, people still listen to the classic disco songs of "Last Days", like a glowing aural portrait that chronicles a pivotal time in our history.... People now spend billions each year on hair management products. And people are now the least hairy humans in world history.... Today, disco thrives. As someone once said, "Disco by any other name still has the same beats and high-sheen production values."
Last Days of Disco pays tribute to the brilliant pioneers.
2 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
I bought this film thinking it would be another take on the 1980's disco scene, it wasn't!
It follows three girls who work in a boring office and go out to a boring club. There is no excitement, no magic and no wonder. I was watching the counter on the video, waiting for this terrible film to end.
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