“Like Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is also a portrait of a society on the verge of changing into something else. Like Wharton's novel, it's a lament for a disintegrating thing of beauty. Stillman's particular beautiful thing isn't youth or the city, but a world where, once you get past the door, everything is full of possibility and you get to dance while exploring it. Maybe those things are all the same.” - Dave Mcdougall, MUBI
Saturday, August 17, 11:45 a.m. | The final entry in Whit Stillman’s “trilogy,” (preceded by METROPOLITAN and BARCELONA), brimming with the writer-director’s trademark dry humor, and starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is a cleverly comic portrait of the early 1980s Manhattan party scene from the vantage point of the late nineties, an affectionate yet unsentimental look at the end of an era. (MUBI).
Awards & Nominations
Official Selection - International Film Festival Rotterdam, Edinburgh International Film Festival
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The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu