The Film Society of Lincoln Center
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The Last Days of Disco (1998)
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Thursday Aug 27, 2009 (7:30pm)
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$11
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Director Whit Stillman appears in person at this event, and a late "Disco Dance Party" sponsored by Viva Radio follows the screening.
For those who prefer the box office to the letterbox format, this latest Criterion addition screens for a four-to-the-floor night out. The most belletristic of American directors, Whit Stillman humorously chronicles the "tremendous importance of group social life" and the malaise of encroaching adulthood for young, privileged New Yorkers in 1981 — a year that also marks the last ebb of that famous '70s musical movement. Alongside the catchy, upbeat bass lines of the O'Jays and Diana Ross that boom in the feral nightclub scenes, Stillman's highbrow dialogue becomes a cipher for his hyper-articulate and "doomed bourgeois in love," including publishing assistants Chloe Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale. Each uttered word — whether on love, feminism, or yuppies — is freighted with their age-appropriate hopes and social hang-ups.
