2015 Directed by Joseph F. Alexandre
The place is the notorious Starck Club (so called because it was the first major project designed by Philippe Starck in the US.) The Starck Club opened in Dallas in 1984 and not long after hosted the 1984 national Republican Convention. Ironically, it was actually legal to buy MDMA aka ecstasy there, people would put it on their credit cards. The DEA stepped in and made it a category 1 drug on July 1, 1985... In a time when ecstasy was legal & guyliner was cool.
Sex, Drugs, Design: The Starck Club Documentary, Sex, Drugs, Design: Warriors of The Discotheque
"2001: A Space Odyssey meets 'Barbarella."
A love letter to a bohemian, disco fueled, euphoric entity in the middle of Dallas, Texas of all places. It definitely stands as an outlier in terms of most similar places being in NYC, LA, or Chicago. It is a well-made documentary in that it starts as a quick kind of preview, prequel that sets up the times and then it begins with simply the entrance of the spot.
Sure, some of the editing and transitions could've been a tad classed up, but I thought it had a warm and loving tone to it all. All of the talking heads really showcased their fun reminiscing.
The first major project designed by France's Philippe Starck, Dallas's notorious Starck club is the subject of this short doc from writer/director Joseph Alexandre. Opening in 1984 just prior to the 1984 national Republican Convention, the Starck Club not only put Starck on the map in the United States but also contributed to the massive growth of Dallas as a metropolitan, vibrant city worthy of a second glance.
Alexandre's doc nicely captures this pre-HIV era when ecstasy was still legal (until mid-1985) and free love was still, well, free. Unlike anything Dallas had ever seen, the Starck Club would become host to the 80's British invasion, new wave music and the likes of such musical voices as Dead or Alive,…
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"Ultimately, the depictions and history in Sex, Drugs, Design: Warriors of the Discotheque shows The Starck Club was not only a fascinating historic building, but the stories that took place from within are equally captivating."
