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- Somehow, there has never been a great film about the history of disco, until now. PBS and the BBC aimed to fix that with their new joint production, Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution.
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- The Apple
- Can't Stop The Music
- That's The Way of The World
- Disco Godfather
- Xanadu
- The Secret Disco Revolution
- Roll Bounce
- Studio 54
- Thank God It's Friday
- Saturday Night Fever
A dystopian musical set in 1994, an innocent couple tries to break into the music industry only to be met with the dark side of the business in The Apple. Despite taking place in the future (by 1980 standards), the movie embodies disco's aesthetic and over-the-top decadence. The costumes are glittery and styled after the popular disco fashions of t...
In this fictional retelling of the formation of the Village People, model Samantha tries to help her friend get a record deal by recruiting a policeman, a cowboy, a construction worker, a soldier, an American Indian, and a biker to form a proper group. RELATED: 10 Best Rock Musician Appearances In Movies The Village People was a disco hit-making ma...
Named after the album of the same name by the genre-spanning band, Earth, Wind, and Fire, That's the Way of the World follows a successful music producer (the talented Harvey Keitel) who is torn between business-minded record executives and his own standards when looking for the next big music sensation. Earth, Wind, and Fire play the band that Kei...
A Rudy Ray Moore film, one of the behemoths of the Blaxploitation genre, Disco Godfatherfollows an ex-cop tasked with stopping an angel dust producer. The film's fashions are next-level disco; the polyester budget of this movie must have been astronomical. The film also makes full use of the popularity of discos at the time, centering the film's pl...
Sometimes labeled one of the worst movies of all time, this oft-maligned cult classic provides a snapshot of the disco craze. In Xanadu, an unsuccessful painter meets his muse in a Greek goddess that suggests to him that his destiny is to open a disco club called Xanadu. Related: 10 Movies That Defined '70s Cinema The styling of the movie, as well ...
A documentary that looks at disco music and its effects through a social and political lens,The Secret Disco Revolutioninterviews many musicians of the disco environment in addition to academics' opinions on the genre. The film posits that disco was a way of catalyzing advances for gender, racial, and LGBTQ equality in the late 70s. Interviewing di...
Roll Bounce captures a subsect of disco culture: roller disco. When their neighborhood roller rink closes, a grieving teen and his friends must skate at the more upscale rink where they sign up for a skating contest to prove themselves to their new rink, in 1978 Chicago, in Roll Bounce. RELATED:The 10 Best Casts From '70s Movies The film's soundtra...
A documentary on the famed nightclub where disco reigned king and everyone from Andy Warhol to Dolly Parton to Grace Jones partied. The hotspot of New York City for the disco years of the late 70s, Studio 54provides an inside look into the glitz and the glamour of the club. The film covers the history of Studio 54 through the eyes of co-owner Ian S...
In a movie that is inarguably a time capsule of the 70s, Thank God It's Fridayfollows a Friday night at The Zoo, a disco club in Los Angeles, where the staff and clients meet to dance their cares away. The movie shares a look at the club scene at the height of disco notoriety and fame. There are disco queens who dub the band Kiss as "kid stuff" whi...
The seminal film on disco culture, Saturday Night Feveris about Tony's escape from his bleak future prospects and dysfunctional family by spending his nights in the disco. As a disco dancing competition looms overhead, Tony sees a chance for a way out of Brooklyn and to achieve his dreams of becoming a real dancer. From the Bee Gee's soundtrack to ...
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- Best: Boogie Nights (1997) - 7.9. Boogie Nights is a Mark Wahlberg film that came out in 1997, directed by the very well-respected auteur Paul Thomas Anderson.
- Worst: Superchick (1973) - 3.5. Somehow doing worse than a film on our list that's 30 years too late is the timely Superchick from 1973. It's about the life of a flight attendant with a man in every different city she travels to.
- Best: C.R.A.Z.Y (2005) - 7.9. While not explicitly a disco film, 2005's C.R.A.Z.Y. takes place during the late 60s and early 70s during the birth of the disco era.
- Worst: The Stud (1978) - 3.9. In 1978's The Stud, we see Fontaine, the wife of a man named Benjamin spending exorbitant amounts of money on her nightclub and parties.
Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution: With David Depino, Nicky Siano, Ana Matronic, Allen Roskoff. From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco conquered the world - its origins, its triumphs, its fall and its legacy.
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- 2024-06-18
- Documentary, History, Music
- David Depino, Nicky Siano, Ana Matronic
- Car Wash (1976) Admit it: you know the song — you’re singing in your head now — but how much do you know about this cult comedy, whose cast includes George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Duke, and The Pointer Sisters?
- Saturday Night Fever (1977) The Bee Gees were a Beatles-esque pop band in a career slump, in search of a new sound. John Travolta was a sitcom star and John Badham was a television director with one feature film under his belt, a sports comedy.
- Thank God It’s Friday (1978) The wild success of Saturday Night Fever inspired many imitators, none of which can hold a candle to the original — including its official sequel, Stayin’ Alive.
- The Wiz (1978) Billed as “the Super Soul Musical Wonderful World of Oz,” The Wiz‘s debt to disco lies less in its songs and more in its style and cast, which features disco diva Diana Ross as Dorothy, Michael Jackson (in his first lead role) as the Scarecrow, and Richard Pryor as The Wiz.
May 1, 2024 · Disco was everywhere in the 1970s. Pulsating out of speakers in clubs across the United States, disco music represented a backlash against rock n' roll, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s. On this list of the greatest ‘70s disco movies, you will find plenty of great films, with soundtracks you won’t be able to get out of your head.
A young couple conjures a dark presence that hungers for their unborn baby as they prepare to burn up the dance floor at Los Angeles' hottest disco.
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