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    Question Disco Movies

    Hi All,

    It's probably already been discussed on this board. But I picked up the OST of 'The Stud' yesterday, and couldn't help but going on a quest for other Disco movies. Nevertheless, I was quickly to find out many do not exist on European DVD coding. Is there someone who knows more? Maybe someone who can help us convert these great tales to European code?

    These are the films I currently possess (in no particular order)

    • Boogie Nights
    • The Stud
    • The Bitch
    • Studio 54
    • Car Wash
    • Maestro
    • Saturday Night Fever :icon_razz:

    Please feel free to add more to the list, and I'll be more than happy to find out where to obtain them.

    P.s. The theme song from 'The Stud' from Biddu Orchestra is true Disco gem! :icon_exclaim:
    Let's Go Disco!

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    Re: Disco Movies

    Cant Stop the music
    roller boogie
    Roll bounce
    Disco godfather
    thank god it's friday
    prom night
    Xanadu
    skate town usa
    The apple
    The last days of disco
    the fish that saved pittsburgh
    fame
    summer of sam
    kiss me Guido
    the 70's "mini Series"
    That's the way I like it
    soup for one(all chic sound track)

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    Re: Disco Movies

    Try The Golden Lady (1979). I've seen it on vhs. Great cheesy theme song and disco nightclub scenes.

    And one Dayna mentioned, Disco Godfather (1979). I think it's been released on dvd. So over-the-top that it's actually pretty entertaining. A must-see.
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    Re: Disco Movies

    The soundtrack of the movie Disco Godfather is a rarity. I've been trying for years to find.

    Side One:
    Disco Godfather
    Shermanizing / One Way Ticket to Hell


    Side Two:
    I Never Wanted to Say Goodbye
    Spaced Out


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    Re: Disco Movies

    Saw 1979's Skatetown USA listed (thanks Dayna !). Have fond memories of it, as I watched it in theaters when new 'round January 1980. Scenes are on youtube, and bootleg copies are available, but it hasn't seen general release yet.

    The Skatetown soundtrack's fairly good to this film, which starred Patrick Swayze-Scott Baio-Ron Palillo (Horseshack)-Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady)-Flip Wilson-Billy Barty- Dorothy Stratten (murdered playmate), and Ruth Buzzi !!! With a 70s cast like that, and Patrick's film debut -- you gotta track it down !!!

    Also, the cd sountrack to Spirit of 76 (1991) is also good for 70s disco & generally bad 70s pop radio hits. The film made fun of the 70s and starred David Cassidy-Leif Garrett-Barbara Bain-Moon Unit Zappa-Rob Reiner-Carl Reiner-DEVO, etc. It's also a fun flick in that it makes fun of it ALL !!!

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    Looking For Mr. Goodbar is a very sad disco movie that is almost always overlooked. Released in 1977, it stars Diane Keaton as a lost woman going from bars and discos looking for men, only to get raped and murdered in the end.

    I saw it back then but I never see this movie on cable or TCM, and would like to have another look at it.

    Here is the soundtrack:http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/c...?movieid=24961

    Track listing

    1. Theme From "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" (Don't Ask Me To Stay Until Tomorrow)
    Instrumental
    2. Don't Leave Me This Way
    Thelma Houston
    3. Lowdown
    Boz Scaggs
    4. Machine Gun
    Commodores
    5. Love Hangover
    Diana Ross
    6. She Wants To (Get On Down)
    Bill Withers
    7. Theme From "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" (Don't Ask Me To Stay Until Tomorrow) [Reprise]
    Instrumental
    8. Theme From "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" (Don't Ask Me To Stay Until Tomorrow) [Vocal]
    Marlena Shaw
    9. She's Lonely
    Bill Withers
    10. Try Me I Know We Can Make It
    Donna Summer
    11. Back Stabbers
    O'Jays
    12. Prelude To Love
    Donna Summer
    13. Could It Be Magic
    Donna Summer



    Here is the IMBD listing:

    Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

    It was also a book.

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    Re: Disco Movies

    Wow! Some great stuff out there.
    It's just too bad, these DVD's are all region1. Can they be played on a PC? Maybe I can convert them that way.
    Any help?

    Thanks!
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    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 :icon_evil:

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

    RELEASE IT NOW! :icon_evil:




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    Wow, I had no idea that Looking For Mr. Goodbar was such a disco movie, that tracklisting is pure disco!

    I wanna add that having just watched Can't Stop The Music a couple of months ago, even though I bought the dvd when it came out, I felt that it was a special movie. Ye ok it's very silly, the plot etc, but it looks great, the music is great, and I don't know, the overall FEEL that the movie gave me, was really really heartwarming. I was left wanting for more.
    Plus ok, eyecandy galore!!

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    Quote Originally Written by Westwood View Post
    Wow, I had no idea that Looking For Mr. Goodbar was such a disco movie, that tracklisting is pure disco!
    I've never seen the movie mentioned here (though it may have been), but back in the day it was a very good soundtrack. I hope I have made others aware of it too.

    I did find this on youtube. Nothing overly graphic here.



    There are a couple of other scenes on youtube also, including the final scene, but I don't want to be a spoiler.

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    Quote Originally Written by needlefingers View Post

    There are a couple of other scenes on youtube also, including the final scene, but I don't want to be a spoiler.
    ...what, she finds out she can't live without disco music? :D someone said how it ends anyway I think )

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    Quote Originally Written by Videoskooter View Post
    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 :icon_evil:

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

    RELEASE IT NOW! :icon_evil:




    That's a TRAGEDY~!!:icon_eek::icon_eek:
    I watch that movie about every 6 months..
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    I haven't watched "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" in its entirety since I saw it in a theater in 1977 (The Regency 1 in SF!!) [ I also read the book by Judith Rossner]...it is a depressing story...but I liked lotsa stuff about it...it also reminded me of my life at the time....looking for love in all the wrong places....avoiding the nice, upstanding boys that wanted dates for the dangerous ones who wanted [fill in the blank]!!! That's Diane Keaton's role as schoolteacher to deaf children by day....hanging out in singles bars at night--looking for someone to screw her just rough enough that she feels something. Then there's her older swinger sister, played by the always wonderful Tuesday Weld....she and her hubby watch porn, take drugs and have orgies!!!:icon_exclaim: Count me in!!!

    This movie was the total antithesis of Keaton's other 1977 release, "Annie Hall" for which she won the Oscar. At the time, it was speculated that the combination of these two extremely different performances helped Keaton clinch the Oscar. Leonard Maltin gives "Goodbar" only * & 1/2 stars.....but I found it kinda exciting.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076327/#comment

    Early performances from Richard Gere [very hot, dangerous and exciting to watch] and Tom Berenger [in drag!] add to the watchability....

    Every time she goes to the disco...there's that soundtrack blaring while she sits at the bar --reading ...was it "The Godfather"??? Must have been an inside joke since she was in that movie!!!
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    Oh my oh my oh my, how is it that I haven't seen this movie yet!!!:icon_razz:

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

    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!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Written by markydefad View Post
    Oh and one more thing about "Looking For Mr. Goodbar"...which I now am jonesing to see again. :icon_twisted::icon_twisted::icon_twisted:

    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?

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    Quote Originally Written by needlefingers View Post
    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!
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    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.

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    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.

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    Well, whenever I hear "Let's All Chant" I always think of the movie, "The Eyes of Laura Mars".
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    Quote Originally Written by Videoskooter View Post
    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 :icon_evil:

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

    RELEASE IT NOW! :icon_evil:
    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)

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    Quote Originally Written by boogyjuice View Post
    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)

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    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)
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    Quote Originally Written by boogyjuice View Post
    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!

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    Re: Disco Movies

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

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