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‘The Last Days of Disco’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

The Rewatchables

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The Squid and the Whale

There was some, there was some bad versions of those movies and they started to feel like a, well, because they started to try to professionalize them. But I think that these guys are almost always at their best when they're riffing closely on autobiography. The last days of disco is very autobiographical. Pete Stillman worked as a lowly book editor at Double Day in the late 70s in New York and went out every night. This is about him. It feels close to something. Richard Linklater isn't confused. And it kind of feels like he never figured out how to go anywhere from here with this movie.

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