Disco's Revenge (2024)

Directed by

Omar Majeed

Genre

documentary, music

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

TP

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about the history and culture of disco music. It shows how disco has continued to influence pop music today, despite being declared dead in the late 1970s.

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What happens

Disco's Revenge is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Omar Majeed and Peter Mishara. The film centres on the history and culture of disco music, tracing the ways in which the genre is still a central influence on contemporary pop music despite its nominal "death" in the late 1970s. It features interviews with and archival performance footage of key figures such as Nile Rodgers, Billy Porter, Nona Hendryx and LaBelle, Grandmaster Flash, Fab Five Freddy, Nicky Siano, Earl Young and The Trammps, Jellybean Benitez, Kevin Saunderson, Sylvester and Martha Wash. The film premiered at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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