Whit Stillman – The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Roger Ebert wrote:
“The Last Days of Disco” is about people who would like to belong to the kinds of clubs that would accept them as members. It takes place in “the very early 1980s” in Manhattan, where a group of young, good-looking Ivy League graduates dance the night away in discos. Unlike the characters in “Saturday Night Fever,” who were basically just looking for a good time, these upwardly mobile characters are alert to the markers of social status. New York magazine is their textbook, and being admitted to the right clubs is the passing grade.

Quote:
The movie is the latest sociological romance by Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan”‘ “Barcelona”), who nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire. His characters went to good schools, have good jobs and think they’re smarter than they are. “Alice, one of the things I’ve noticed is that people hate being criticized,” says Charlotte, who seems quietly proud of this wisdom. They are capable of keeping a straight face while describing themselves as “adherents to the disco movement.” Alice (Chloe Sevigny, from “Kids”) is the smartest member of the crowd, and definitely the nicest. She has values. Her best friend Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) only has goals: to meet the right guys, to be popular, to do exactly what she imagines someone in her position should be doing. Both girls are regulars at a fashionable disco. Charlotte is forever giving poor Alice advice about what to say and how to behave; she says guys like it when a girl uses the word “sexy,” and a few nights later, when a guy tells Alice he collects first editions of Scrooge McDuck comic books, she faithfully observes that she has always found Uncle Scrooge sexy.

The last days of disco - W. Stillman (1998).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 53mn
Size: 	2.95 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 249 Kbps
BPP: 	0.230
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps
#2:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps (Audio commentary by Stillman and actors Chris Eigeman and Chloë Sevigny)

https://nitro.download/view/C65880A99D4C7D7/The_last_days_of_disco_-_W._Stillman_(1998).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English