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The Last Days of Disco

1998 Directed by Whit Stillman

History is made at night.

Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.

Chloë Sevigny Kate Beckinsale Chris Eigeman Mackenzie Astin Matt Keeslar Robert Sean Leonard Jennifer Beals Matt Ross Tara Subkoff Burr Steers David Thornton

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Review by matt lynch ★★★★½

"There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck."
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 5

pretty realistic post-grad movie except for the part where they all have jobs and enough disposable income to disco in NYC every night
Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★★ 1

“I consider you a person of some integrity—except, you know, in your relations with women.” That must be the most important line spoken in any Stillman film pinpointing the many ways his movies marry sociological study, comedy of manners and a rather clear moral position. 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. One stumbles upward, while the world around it just awkwardly disappears. It is as beautiful elegiac as it is witty because Stillman sincere belief that “the yuppie scum” deserves its elegy too. There’s plenty of behavior beauties…
Review by iana ★★★★

“unemployed is not who i am. i’m a fully employed person who just happens not to have a job right now” wow i feel attacked
Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★ 2

Discussed on the podcast with Calum Marsh, as well as the film's novelization written by Stillman (which is totally awesome—It's written from the perspective of Jimmy in 1999, after the film is released in his world, so it's extremely self-reflexive). I feel like I want to integrate every line of dialogue into my own life. "The way I see it, Brutus was a good friend to Caesar."

Also what the hell happened Kate Beckinsale? Someone give Noah Baumbach her phone number, stat.
Review by Melissa Tamminga ★★★★ 7

"'Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh, for a few years - maybe many years - it'll be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or - worse - completely ignored. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and people going like *this* but we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco . Those who didn't understand will never understand: disco was much more, and much better, than all that. Disco was too great, and too much fun, to…

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Review by helenh0lmes ★★★★

i’ve seen it like ... 4 times? one of those movies I’ve taken way too seriously to the point where i unconsciously act like my favorite character (Kate Beckinsale duh)
Review by Charles ★★★★★

This was honestly everything I could ever want. Sure the movie loses its footing a bit in the back half, but it finds its way again and ends really strongly. Loved the cast especially Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny, Kate was seriously such a bitch in this movie but I liked it for the most part. The dialogue from Whit Stillman is just something only a master scribe could pull off, where is his Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for this or Love & Friendship? A disco club where they mainly only let hot girls and gays in and don’t let that much straight men in, that’s my kind of club!
Review by Jake Mueller ★★★★★

scrooge mcduck
Review by Evan Bower ★★★★½

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Review by Garrett ★★★★½

"Anything I did that was wrong, I apologize for. But anything I did that was not wrong, I don't apologize for"
Review by adamraber ★★★

I got what they were trying to do.....and I’m down for no real plot if there was any interesting character pieces within it. but it just didn’t go far enough for me. nice seeing kate and chloe hanging out tho
Review by Beth C. ★★★

not the post-grad life I’m looking at
Review by Zach a.m. ★★★★½

Yuppie scum are people too.
Review by underbiteman ★★★★

It's a goddamn tragedy that kate beckinsale didn't become a charlize theron