The Secret Disco Revolution

Name: The Secret Disco Revolution
Genre: History, Comedy, Music, Documentary
Released: June 28, 2013
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 56

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: June 28, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: The disco era, long dismissed as a time of hedonistic excess, has been gravely misunderstood. Revisionist historians now argue the era was in fact an important time of protest: liberating gays, blacks and women. The Secret Disco Revolution juxtaposes the thoughts of disco revisionists with revealing new interviews with some of the era'sThe disco era, long dismissed as a time of hedonistic excess, has been gravely misunderstood. Revisionist historians now argue the era was in fact an important time of protest: liberating gays, blacks and women. The Secret Disco Revolution juxtaposes the thoughts of disco revisionists with revealing new interviews with some of the era's biggest stars, a goldmine of rarely seen stock footage, and enough disco hits to shake your booty straight back to 1978.… Expand

Director: Jamie Kastner

Genre(s): History, Comedy, Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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IndieWire David D’Arcy

Jun 16, 2013

The Secret Disco Revolution is the doc that disco deserves – rigorous, critical and entertaining. Read full review

The Guardian Indu Chandrasekhar

Jun 16, 2013

Rather than simply charting the rise and fall of disco to a thumping soundtrack, the film presents an unexpected school of thought – that disco was actually a vehicle of liberation, a revolutionary tool used to end the oppression of women and black and gay people in 1970s America. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Jun 28, 2013

Disco scholars convincingly analyze lyrics and fashions as presenting bold expressions of sexuality and democratic hedonism, while Kastner doesn't skimp on the vintage clips, which range from unintentionally hilarious to surprisingly impressive. Read full review

Dean Essner

Jun 22, 2013

Jamie Kastner bows fully to hedonism in lieu of all the scholarly theories on disco's lasting impact--a tidy but gutless way of tying together so many disparate arguments by such disparate people. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Jun 27, 2013

Some may still be surprised at this fun, well-informed chronicle of what was happening in the U.S. as lighted floors, boogie shoes and Saturday night fevers were the rage. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jun 28, 2013

Its priceless clips from the disco era aside, The Secret Disco Revolution laughably fails to turn Barry White and Donna Summer into the Che Guevara and Emma Goldman of the dance floor. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Jun 25, 2013

Kastner’s history is simplistic, his pacing is glacial and his film is laboriously constructed around a campy fictional trio of caricatured gay-black-girl “masterminds” planning the “revolution,” thumbing through a “manifesto” and sprinkling glitter ritualistically on a mirror ball. Read full review

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