
A cheeky, sexy documentary hybrid, THE SECRET DISCO REVOLUTION wraps revealing celebrity interviews, classic kitsch footage and music, in a hilarious new package that never lets you stop dancing long enough to decide what's real and what's satire.... (Full plot summary below)
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A cheeky, sexy documentary hybrid, THE SECRET DISCO REVOLUTION wraps revealing celebrity interviews, classic kitsch footage and music, in a hilarious new package that never lets you stop dancing long enough to decide what's real and what's satire.
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| The Film StageJohn FinkThe film's strongest moments are in its case for what brought down disco including its broad expansion via radio. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfActually quite valuable as a document of the era, interviewing those who stood (and boogied) on the front line, amassing an eye-opening tale of greed, lust, and burgeoning confidence. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohDespite an impressive array of important interviewees...again and again, throughout the film, the narrator and unfortunate directorial choices produce a vapidity akin to that which disco was accused of by its detractors. |
| Glenn DunksGlenn DunksWhile there is plenty of interest in Kastner's documentary, anybody with more than a passing knowledge of the disco era will know most of it already. |
| GuardianIndu ChandrasekharRather 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. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierSome 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. |
| CinemalogueTodd JorgensonIt's a thorough but strained attempt to be provocative. |
| Slant MagazineDean EssnerJamie 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. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittMostly, it's content to let major figures chitchat for a bit without digging any deeper into what they're saying or connecting it to anything else. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)Mostly, it's content to let major figures chitchat for a bit without digging any deeper into what they're saying or connecting it to anything else. |