Rewatchables Reference

• The opening 15-20 minutes entering the disco and meeting all characters with 5-6 bangers playing.
• The Rex's bar sequence – yuppie speech by Eigerman, breast unveiling story.
• The 'you have the clap' scene where Charlotte outs Alice.

• Sarah Edwards' costume design started a fashion trend – the outfits would work today.
• The soundtrack as a first-ballot Hall of Fame soundtrack; Criterion Collection #485.
• Department Dan character (Matt Ross); the New York living-in-your-20s vibe.

• The whole movie is essentially one long needle drop – hard to pick one.
• Chris Ryan picks 'The Tide Is High' by Blondie.
• Notable songs: I'm Coming Out, Good Times, He's the Greatest Dancer, Love Train.

• Matt Keeslar as Josh – too flat, not up to the task compared to the rest of the cast.
• His performance especially suffers in the final 30 minutes when he becomes the most important character.

• The opening credits trying to make a disco-style font – hard to read.
• The abrupt time jump near the end where Alice has won and everyone's at the unemployment office – feels like a scene is missing.

• Chloe Sevigny was neck and neck with Gwyneth Paltrow leaving the 90s; in an alternate universe she has multiple Oscar nominations.
• The Brown Bunny incident derailed what could have been a bigger career.

• Ben Affleck wanted to play Des but Stillman went with Eigerman; Affleck did Shakespeare in Love instead.
• Alice was supposed to be Winona Ryder – her agent took four days to return the call; they cast Sevigny in those four days.
• Ed Norton suggested as alternative for the Josh/Keeslar role.

Actually an under-acting award: Matt Keeslar's flat, pulseless delivery.

• Matt Ross as Department Dan (also Sevigny's co-star later in Big Love).
• David Thornton as Bernie (married to Cyndi Lauper).

• Ben Affleck or Matt Damon for the Mackenzie Astin (Jimmy) role.
• Josh Hamilton over Matt Keeslar for Josh.

• Budget $8 million, made only $3 million at the box office.
• The disco was an old picture theater in Jersey City; they split production space with Turturro's Illuminata.
• Sevigny said Last Days of Disco is the movie people come up to her about the most.

• Chloe Sevigny – yes, the IT girl in New York, about to do Boys Don't Cry.
• Kate Beckinsale – possibly, though Underworld may have been bigger commercially.
• Vodka tonics; book publishers; gonorrhea as a movie plot device.

• Alice (Sevigny) would have guys crawling over her in real life – no way she'd be left alone in a booth.
• Not nearly enough cocaine and cigarettes for the era.
• No way they could carry nuanced conversations at normal volume in a nightclub.

• A mid-80s follow-up showing what happened to these characters.
• 'Dez in the City' as a Sex and the City alternative.

Supporting Actress for Beckinsale or Eigerman; Lynn Redgrave's slot (Gods and Monsters) identified as beatable.

• Why wasn't Kate Beckinsale this good ever again?
• Chris Eigerman as the best bar-conversation actor ever?

• 54 director's cut (watch first, then Last Days of Disco).
• Barcelona or Metropolitan (Whit Stillman trilogy).

• The template of how to write a book, framed.
• Mackenzie Astin's Joker outfit.

Women prefer bad over weak, and decisive over unemployed.

Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny are '1A and 1B'; Bill says Beckinsale, Sean says Sevigny.

Craig Horlbeck – not present at recording (bachelor party), inserted a recorded segment saying he adored the movie.