The Last Days of Disco News

I keep vowing to publicists, editors and even a reader or two that I'll crank out these DVD roundups in something closer to a more regular fashion.

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The Embassy club was London's version of Studio 54 - a keyed-up, overheated, gay model of the original.

The new movie 'Whiteout' refers not to Liquid Paper correction fluid but to the brutal, wintry conditions that tend to make Antarctica inhabitable.

REVIEW *1 2 out of **** 'Whiteout' Rated: R Running time: 1:41 Director: Dominic Sena Showing: Bainbridge, Galaxy Uptown 10 , Kitsap 8, Olympic, Poulsbo, South Sound REVIEW *1 2 out of **** 'Whiteout' Rated: R Running time: 1:41 Director: Dominic Sena Showing: Bainbridge, Galaxy Uptown 10 , Kitsap 8, Olympic, Poulsbo, South Sound Warner Bros.

For years I worked as a part-time disc jockey, doing wedding receptions and private parties of all kinds.

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In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Alex O'Loughlin, left, and Kate Beckinsale are shown in a scene from "Whiteout." It's Kate Beckinsale on Ice.

When you sit down to do an on camera interview, you never know what's going to happen.

TARA Subkoff seems to be doing well following brain surgery. The 36-year-old Imitation of Christ designer was in good spirits at a screening of "The Last Days of Disco" at the Walter Reade Theatre as part of a Film Society of Lincoln Center series.

Polytechnique: Quebecois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and actress-producer Karine Vanasse take on the atrocities of the Dec.

The return of Julia Roberts in a romantic thriller was the selling point of ' Duplicity ,' written and directed by Tony Gilroy , and it delivers charmingly if not emphatically on both fronts.

Email this Posted Aug 31st 2009 at 1:40PM by Lesley Kennedy Fashion designer Tara Subkoff is said to be doing well after recent brain surgery.

Released in 1998, The Last Days of Disco was the final film in writer-director Whit Stillman's loose trilogy of satirical social comedies about the so-called "Urban Haute Bourgeoisie" , a sub-culture of young, white, East-Coast, Ivy-league elites.

This week in home releases, we have a Bret Easton Ellis adaptation , a classy Criterion release , a complete set of a classic 1980s cartoon , some Stephen King horror that's hitting high-def , and shirtless guys beating the stuffing out of each other .

C. Robert Cargill , Aug 25, 2009 Whit Stillman is a director seemingly from a bygone era.

Writer/director Whit Stillman's light-hearted, witty examination of the romantic and professional troubles of a group of young people in very early 80s New York catches his unabashed but clear-eyed love for disco and his nascent yuppies.

Whit Stillman was on the phone last week, chatting about his third and still most recent film, The Last Days of Disco , a contemporary classic now out on DVD in a Criterion Collection edition.

No, The Last Days of Disco does not star Mike Myers. Whit Stillman released his first movie in 1990.

Our review of The Last Days Of Disco , published October 30th, 1999, is also available.