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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 30 m

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...

Directed By: Jamie Kastner

Written By: Jamie Kastner

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 30 m

The Secret Disco Revolution

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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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...

Directed By: Jamie Kastner

Written By: Jamie Kastner

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Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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20% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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20% Mixed
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100
Jun 16, 2013
The Secret Disco Revolution is the doc that disco deserves – rigorous, critical and entertaining.
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75
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.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 27, 2013
The Secret Disco Revolution, however limited, is one smart documentary. It’s so clever that it makes fun of itself.
By David DeWitt FULL REVIEW
63
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.
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60
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.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 27, 2013
The movie feels like a flakey, off-the-cuff blog post that somehow transmogrified itself into a feature-length documentary.
By Mark Olsen FULL REVIEW
20
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.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cave 7 Productions Inc.
Release Date Jun 28, 2013
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline The party that changed the world
Website https://www.facebook.com/TheSecretDiscoRevolution
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Awards

CPH:DOX
• 1 Nomination
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 1 Nomination

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