Word: disco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is left is the final disco, held in the room where policies on hunger, energy and voter apathy were thrashed out. Red lights flash over a parquet dance floor. The room fills with the blast of a band from Washington. The name of the band is Survival...
...grin throughout just so no one will think you're taking it seriously. A lot of the acting is reminiscent of the Mod Squad (cool and vacant) school. Voices is simply not good enough to make it worth sitting through another movie about upward social mobility, human kindness and disco...
...sake you'd expect a little in the bothered family. Instead, the younger brother gets out of gangs and into civility, and the father, who the day before burned down his tailor shop for the insurance money so he could pay off his bookie, somehow turns up for the disco's opening night where he beams at his son who somehow (not through musical ability, that's for sure) has escaped the strip joint circuit and is opening at a plush midtown disco...
...Creation of the new means the "deconstruction" of the old, and a sardonic snipe at other contemporary musical forms. The Pistols start parodying right off on side two with a symphonic version of "God Save the Queen," as much a parody of themselves as of art rock. A bizarre disco medley of "Anarchy in the U. K.," "God Save the Queen," "Pretty Vacant," and "No One's Innocent" follows on the same side. These, along with a French cafe version of "L'Anarchie Pour le U. K.," sung by Jerzimy on side four, and a delightfully absurd sax solo...
...survivors, rescuing stills from such bygone epics as Squaw Man and The Big Parade, trekking through early archives. The stories he brings back are the stuff of legend. They could, as well, be the stuff of marvelous adventure movies, if the entertainment industry were not currently catering to adolescent disco fantasies...