Jul 4th
Saturday Night Fever***
(US 1977)
In a downtown New York suburb, dancer Tony Manero spends his weekends hanging out with his sordid friends weaving his magic on the disco floor, but meets a dance partner who makes him think about his future.
Highly influential and representative Seventies drama (with one or two nods to other Italian-American icons of the time such as Rocky and Al Pacino), grinding along in its domestic scenes away from the dance floor, but generally more entertaining than Mean Streets in its depiction of Brooklyn working class life, in a manner similar to the British kitchen sink. Very much of its time, but hasn't dated, perhaps because much of its music became fashionable through the succeeding decades.
Written by: Norman Wexler, from a story by Nik Cohn.
Producer: Robert Stigwood.
Director: John Badham.
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Bruce Ornstein, Martin Shakar, Sam J. Coppola.
Photography: Ralf Bode.
Music: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, David Shire.
Preceded by:
Tom and Jerry in
The Zoot Cat**
(US 1944. 7m.; Another film very much about the dance craze of the time.; d: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)
Saturday Night Fever***
(US 1977)
In a downtown New York suburb, dancer Tony Manero spends his weekends hanging out with his sordid friends weaving his magic on the disco floor, but meets a dance partner who makes him think about his future.
Highly influential and representative Seventies drama (with one or two nods to other Italian-American icons of the time such as Rocky and Al Pacino), grinding along in its domestic scenes away from the dance floor, but generally more entertaining than Mean Streets in its depiction of Brooklyn working class life, in a manner similar to the British kitchen sink. Very much of its time, but hasn't dated, perhaps because much of its music became fashionable through the succeeding decades.
Written by: Norman Wexler, from a story by Nik Cohn.
Producer: Robert Stigwood.
Director: John Badham.
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Bruce Ornstein, Martin Shakar, Sam J. Coppola.
Photography: Ralf Bode.
Music: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, David Shire.
Preceded by:
Tom and Jerry in
The Zoot Cat**
(US 1944. 7m.; Another film very much about the dance craze of the time.; d: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)
posted by Joe at 11:10 PM
2 Comments:
Oh yes, a great choice there! Love this film, I can watch it again and again. Fine performances from all, and there is really effective gritty look to this drama....and wow, that soundtrack! Still one of the top soundtrack album sellers of all time.
Are you going to bother with the 1983 sequel, "Staying Alive"? That's an oddball of a film, and I found it hard to get through.
I'm glad you managed to stay alive through it! ;) I would generally keep away from anything to do with sequels or Sylvester Stallone.
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