''Flashdance,'' which critics have described as an imitation of ''Saturday Night Fever,'' stars Jennifer Beals as a welder who dances at night in a neighborhood bar. The disco phenomenon was immortalized in Paramount's ''Saturday Night Fever,'' the hit movie that starred John Travolta as a paint salesman who is king of the discos on Saturday night. The combination of light shows and recorded music by disk jockeys culminated in the mid-70's in disco. So we took five or six of the songs we felt were the strongest cuts on the album and cut video sequences from the film to the music.''ĭuring the 1960's, with the advent of discotheques, turntables became the stars of nightclubs. ''How could we promote it? The success of MTV, the all-music cable channel, has opened a whole new world of possibilities for reaching teen-agers. ''We had an R-rated movie that we couldn't show people because it wasn't finished,'' said Susan Pile, publicity vice president at Paramount. ‘Drive My Car’: In this quiet Japanese masterpiece, a widower travels to Hiroshima to direct an experimental version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”.‘Passing’: Set in the 1920s, the movie centers on two African American women, friends from childhood, who can and do present as white.
‘Spencer’: Kristen Stewart stars as an anguished, rebellious Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s answer to “The Crown.”.‘Summer of Soul’: Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples and others shine in Questlove’s documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival.Scott and Manohla Dargis, selected their favorite movies of the year.
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