One of my favorite movies is one I’m always surprised that very few people know of -The Last Days of Disco. There are so many reasons why I’ve seen this movie just about as many times as When Harry Met Sally and that’s saying a lot considering we all know how many times that one plays on TV.

The soundtrack is amazing, there’s a ton of dancing (but not in sappy Dirty Dancing kind of way), the screenplay is brilliant, the story’s based in New York, Chloe Sevingy, Kate Beckinsale and Tara Subkoff before they were famous, umm DISCO - it’s really an amazingly wonderful film. And, if you’ve seen the movie than you should know that the last scene is something I would love to re-enact on a New York subway.

Anyway, this film is finally making its way to the Criterion Collection, which makes me very happy since the DVD has been unavailable and out-of-print for five plus years. I also just discovered that the Film Society of Lincoln Center is hosting a screening with the director Whit Stillman on August 27th. Seriously, who’s with me?

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  1. purns reblogged this from brieflynoted and added:
    is finally getting Criterion treatment....replaced my VHS with what
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