Disco Movies

[needlefingers]

Originally Posted by markydefad

Oh and one more thing about "Looking For Mr. Goodbar"...which I now am jonesing to see again.

Keaton has the worst apartment ever seen in a movie!!!!!!!!!!!!! just a NASTY hole in the basement....and she does nothing to decorate!!!!!!!!

Her apartment made me feel good about my own squalid studio apartment on Geary at Polk!!! Mine was out of a Macy's ad compared to hers!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you talking about the Iron Lung?

As I remember the character, she had a bout of polio as a child and lived in an iron lung in the living room. This added to her emotional detachment attitude later in life.

Do you remember that?

[markydefad]

Originally Posted by needlefingers

Are you talking about the Iron Lung?

As I remember the character, she had a bout of polio as a child and lived in an iron lung in the living room. This added to her emotional detachment attitude later in life.

Do you remember that?

no silly ....the basement apartment she got from some family connection that she decorated by putting a red light bulb in the light socket!!!! That's some decoratin'!!! Squalid, dark, damp little hole in the wall with a bed and no windows. That's what I remember.

Yeah, she had some childhood bout with something that left her with a limp. Hence, no dancing for Theresa. And the bars she went to were dives with sawdust & shucked peanuts on the floor --not grand Studio 54 type establishments. Yet they played good music!

[JussiK]

From Italy, region 2 dvds: L'Infirmiera Di Notte - several cheap and cheerful club scenes and a not-so-grand yet very entertaining disco finale with Gloria Guida bellowing out "La Musica E". Lots of bad dancing all around. "Cicciolina Amore Mio" with Ilona Staller naturally, disrobing with abandon and performing a song on a disco stage. Even though this is a Cicciolina film it's all soft core so relax, it has no explicit scenes involving her strange toilet habits and such.
From France, Madame Claude by Just Jaeckin. This epitomizes the glossy mid 70's eurochic/elegant eurotrash look. Models are seen wearing turban head dresses, turquoise caftans and spiked high heels, and in one scene, the expensive filles are shown dancing at New Jimmy's Discotheque. You'll also get tantalising glimpses of Joe Colombo furniture and a Concorde airplane. The music is by Serge Gainsbourg Himself.
Squadra Antigansters/The Gand That Sold America with Thomas Milan and Asha Puthli & Squadra Antimafia, with Thomas Milian. Shot in N.Y and Cinecitta, disco music by Goblin & club scenes.
Je Te Tiens Tu Me Tiens par la Barbichette, with The Village People and The Ritchie Family, shot 2 years before Can't Stop The Music.

On vhs, if you can find them: Follia di Notte by Joe D'Amato/Aristide Massaccesi, with Amanda Lear hostessing a series of mostly faked mondo segments, plus a long superb disco scene.
This Is America 2 - scenes shot at Xenon with "Beat of the Night" playing in the background.
Hoodlums/Gangsters - a 1979 Italian mob film with disco scenes. Did someone mention Nocturna and Disco Godfather? The latter is of course available on region 1 dvd.
Graf Dracula Beisst Jetzt Im Oberbayern - The count hosts a disco club in the German alps. A hideously unfunny but mesmerizing lederhosen-horror comedy from 1979.
Hubert Frank's Disco Fieber, with Hanna Sebek plus lipsyncing live on stage the LaBionda brothers and Boney M.
Shalimar from India, 1978, with rex harrison and Sylvia Miles and Ushi Uthup performing the peerless ONE TWO CHA CHA CHA, one of the most manic disco records in existence, she sounds like a drill sergeant barking orders to dance it disco or else.
and..oh well, it'll be pretty hopeless trying to track this stuff down anymore, the vhs nights are long gone. Unless they have the tapes for sale at Ebay?
Almost forgot: Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky is now on region one dvd, and film that has Boris Midney playing while the boring, unappreciating punkette wanders around the New York New York disco of New York.

www.jussikantonen.com

[needlefingers]

You know marky, I was pondering about this and I think I was wrong about the polio and iron lung.

I think she broke her back. But I do remember a flashback of her as a child lying in the livingroom.

I've been wanting to see this movie again for years and will go on a search to find it. I remember owning the soundtrack years ago. Going to have to find that again too.

And to add to the information, it is based on a true story that happened in the early '70's.

[paul]

Well, whenever I hear "Let's All Chant" I always think of the movie, "The Eyes of Laura Mars".

[boogyjuice]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

Not adding because most of the movies are already mentioned but... Do you [censored] know that the [censored] DVD-release of "Thank God It's Friday" is still not available in [censored] Europia

Who are the [censored] bozo's that decide that the Europalians are not interested in this movie

RELEASE IT NOW!

But with the ability of online-ordering, i guess it won't be a problem if it's released in Europe or not ?
... or do you not order from the web, or prefer a version with subtitle-posibilities ?

The price of the one which available is good :



Thank God it's Friday (DVD)

Amazon-U.S. | Amazon-U.K.

[pepper1dancer]

Originally Posted by boogyjuice

But with the ability of online-ordering, i guess it won't be a problem if it's released in Europe or not ?
... or do you not order from the web, or prefer a version with subtitle-posibilities ?

The price of the one which available is good :



Thank God it's Friday (DVD)

Amazon-U.S. | Amazon-U.K.

I hate this Cover!! Why couldn't thewy leave the original alone? I have the original poster hanging and I love the cartoon characters dancing at the disco. It is way cooler! For sure! (Oops, that's New Wave talk)

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by boogyjuice

But with the ability of online-ordering, i guess it won't be a problem if it's released in Europe or not ?
... or do you not order from the web, or prefer a version with subtitle-posibilities?

There's a Belgian store that orders for me but they can not find the DVD with our regional-code, that's the problem. I even prefer a version without subtitles. Damn, I only saw this movie once, rented on VHS. The Stud/The Bitch, no problem finding it here but they just don't want to release TGIF! Same goes for "Disco Godfather", not available!

[FranceJoliFan]

I've probably enjoyed more disco scenes in movies where disco wasn't the focus. And especially like to see fictionalized accounts of real life artists.

What's Love Got To Do With It
I love the part where pre-comeback Tina Turner is playing a smaller venue and performing Disco Inferno.

Madonna: Innocence Lost
This is the made-for-TV movie. Covers Madonna from the late 70's to her Like A Virgin triumph in 1984. They didn't get the rights to use any of her music, except for a cover version of LAV. The movie's disco moment is when she's in Europe doing back-up for Patrick Hernandez. And she's being groomed for disco stardom (which she rebelled against. Ironic, huh?) And she performs a disco song in an intimate nightclub, which turns into something of a strip tease (do any copies of this song exist on vinyl?)



The movie is good trashy fun. And the actress bears an uncanny resemblance to Madonna.

So does anyone know of other movies that feature fictionalized portrayals of actual disco artists?

[Westwood]

Is it a real song or something just composed for the movie?

[FranceJoliFan]

Originally Posted by Westwood

Is it a real song or something just composed for the movie?

Good question. I'm not sure. And I wonder if any actual Modonna disco demos exist from that time period. Maybe they made her sound like a female Patrick Hernandez.

Another trashy movie with a disco scene is Deadly Twins. It came out in the 80's and starred Judy & Audrey Landers. It's a low-budget shot-on-video thriller with dubbed-in dialogue. The sisters play singers. And there's a scene where they perform at a disco, right there on the dancefloor. They both look like low-rent versions of Madleen Kane. And sing as though disco had never died. I loved it.

Here's a brutal review from TVGuide.com:

Audrey and Judy Landers are best known for their appearance as the first twin centerfold in Playboy history and for a series of undistinguished guest appearances on television, but in this wretched German-made feature, they get a chance to showcase their talents. Moving from New York to Cologne when one of them (the two are virtually indistinguishable, and the credits don't identify the characters) gets a job, the sisters supplement their income with a truly horrid singing act in a discotheque. After their show one night, they are raped and beaten by the thug son of the local mob chief and his pal. The twins manage to give a description of their attacker and his car to the police, but the attacker is protected by his father's influence. Unable to get justice, the sisters follow in the well-trod B-movie footsteps of many a wronged woman and seek vengeance themselves. Shot on video with all the finesse of hardcore porn, DEADLY TWINS may be the absolute bottom of the barrel of 1988. The Landers sisters should stick to still photos because they are drop-dead gorgeous but, as soon as they try to emote or even speak, exhibit their numbingly apparent lack of talent. Tellingly, no writer is credited for DEADLY TWINS, indicating that either someone pulled his name off in disgust, or (as seems more likely), the film was just made up as it went along.