'The Last Days of Disco' DVD cover
Also see the Books page for information on The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards, based on this film.
- Official website
- IMDb entry
- The DVD at Criterion
- The Criterion DVD at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
- The original DVD at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
- The CD soundtrack at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
- The novel at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
- Hollywood Stock Exchange listing
Trailer
Press
- ‘The Last Days of Disco: Interview with Whit Stillman’ by Prairie Miller for Cinema Syndicate (1998)
- ‘Disco Nights of Studio 54′ by Bernard Weinraub in the New York Times (8 May 1998)
- ‘A Fight for the Rights to… Disco’ on the music used in the film, by Chris Willman at EW.com (22 May 1998)
- ‘Play That Funky Music Whit Boy!: “The Last Days of Disco’s” Stillman’ by Tom Cunha at IndieWire (1 Jun 1998)
- Interview with Elvis Mitchell on US radio station KCRW about The Last Days of Disco, audio available (29 May 1998)
- Interview with Charlie Rose in which “Stillman discusses his new acclaimed movie The Last Days of Disco and the pros and cons of independent film-making” (8 Jun 1998)
- Week long diary by Whit Stillman for Slate (9 Jun 1998)
- Onion AV Club interview by Keith Phipps (10 Jun 1998)
- ‘Disco Dancer’ by Steve Ramos for City Beat (11 Jun 1998)
- Fresh Air interview on NPR, audio available from rebroadcast on 27 Sep 2000. (11 Jun 1998)
- ‘Whit Stillman does Disco thing’ by Ingrid Randoja at NOW magazine (11 Jun 1998)
- ‘Preview – The Last Days of Disco’ by Cynthia Amsden at SEE magazine (25 Jun 1998)
- ‘Cutting edge – English actress Kate Beckinsale’ by Dina Rabinovitch for Interview (Jul 1998)
- Boxtop chat transcript (16 Jul 1998)
- Director: Wilt (sic) Stillman by Nick Leshi originally for Video Street Date Magazine (1999)
- A letter by Linda Stillman (scroll to bottom) detailing Stillman’s connection to Penn Law School (where one of the film’s characters went). (Jan/Feb 1990)
- Number 81 in ‘Top 100 American Independent Films’ (of the 1990s, provided by the BFI) at Empire (8 Mar 1999)
- ‘Fue una época increíble’ interview by Diego Lerer at Clarin.com. Google translation (14 Apr 1999)
- ‘Nature, Grace, and The Last Days of Disco’ (PDF) by Peter Augustine Lawler at The Intercollegiate Review (Spring 2000)
- Fresh Air interview with actor Chris Eigeman on NPR. Audio available for US$2.95 at Audible. (8 July 2000)
- ‘A Great Conservative Film Maker’ by Julia Magnet in City Journal (Winter 2004)
- Los últimos días de Whit Stillman interview. Google translation (Date unknown)
- ‘Director Whit Stillman on The Last Days of Disco‘ an interview with Joshua Rothkof at Time Out New York (20 Aug 2009)
- ‘History is Made at Night – An Interview with Filmmaker Whit Stillman’ an interview with David Zahl at the Mockingbird Blog (21 Aug 2009)
- ‘Whit Stillman Speaks Eleven Years After His Last Film’ an interview with Nick Pinkerton at Village Voice (full transcript here) (25 Aug 2009)
- ‘Whit Stillman, Filmmaker’ an interview with Hugh Merwin at Gothamist (26 Aug 2009)
- ‘The Last Days of Disco on DVD’ an interview on video with Leonard Lopate for WNYC (26 Aug 2009)
- ‘Exclusive Q&A: Filmmaker Whit Stillman’ an interview with Adam Wilson at Flavorwire (17 Sep 2009)
Reviews
- ‘The Last Days of Disco’ by James Bowman (1 May 1998)
- ‘Night Life of the the Young, Urban and Genteel’ by Janet Maslin (29 May 1998)
- ‘Whit Stillman goes retro in ‘Last Days’ by Michael Okwu at CNN (28 May 1998)
- Review by Bob Mondello for ‘All Things Considered’ on NPR (29 May 1998)
- ‘Night Life of the Young, Urban and Genteel’ by Janet Maslin for The New York Times (free registration required) (29 May 2000)
- ‘The Last Days of Disco’ by Lisa Schwarzbaum at EW.com (29 May 1998)
- ‘The Vodka Tonic Crowd Could Get Down, Even Sober’ by Andrew Sarris for the New York Observer (1 Jun 1998)
- Review by Franklin Foer for Slate (4 Jun 1998)
- ‘Whit and Wisdom in “Days”‘ by Michelle Goldberg at MetroActive (4 Jun 1998)
- ‘Lost in music, caught in a trap’ by Ryan Gilbey for the Independent (3 Sep 1998)
- ‘Those uptight young things’ by Matthew Sweet for the Independent (6 Sep 1998)
Reviews of the DVD
- ‘Director Stillman excels in wit, precocious wisdom’ by Mike Clark at USA Today (20 Feb 2006)
- ‘The Last Days of Disco’ by Noel Megahey for DVD Times (5 Sep 2006)
- ‘The Last Days of Disco’ by Christopher Long at DVD Town (15 Aug 2009)
- ‘The Last Days of Disco’ by Robert Bell at The Trades (24 Aug 2009)
- ‘The Last Days of Disco’ by Chris Neilson at DVD Talk (25 Aug 2009)
- ‘Conversation: Whit Stillman’ by Zoë Pollock at PBS (25 Aug 2009)
- ‘When Preppies Became Yuppies’ by Troy Patterson at Slate (26 Aug 2009)
- ‘The view: Why class never goes out of fashion on film’ by Danny Leigh at the Guardian (28 Aug 2009)]