The Secret Disco Revolution
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  • 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's biggest stars, a goldmine of rarely seen stock footage, and enough disco hits to shake your booty straight back to 1978.… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. indieWIRE
    Reviewed by: David D’Arcy
    Jun 16, 2013
    100
    The Secret Disco Revolution is the doc that disco deserves – rigorous, critical and entertaining.
  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Indu Chandrasekhar
    Jun 16, 2013
    80
    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.
  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    Jun 28, 2013
    75
    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.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Dean Essner
    Jun 22, 2013
    63
    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.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    Jun 27, 2013
    60
    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.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    Jun 28, 2013
    50
    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.
  7. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    Jun 25, 2013
    20
    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.

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