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Night Watch: The Last Days of Disco

POSTED: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 1:00 AM
Filed Under: Movies | Night Watch Watch

Academy Award nominated Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco is unavailable on DVD. What gives, people? Sure, it's not as good as his debut Metropolitan, but few movies are.

From Janet Maslin's Times review:

In ''The Last Days of Disco,'' [Stillman] is again concerned with the youthful malaise of the privileged, and he once again renders his characters' fretfulness in deft, funny and improbably touching ways. Wild nights of the disco age are not dealt with here, because this is not a film about wild characters. It's about tame ones who poignantly, in the brief spell of liberation between the end of college and the start of serious careers, may be experiencing more fun and freedom than they ever will again.

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