Disco/dancing/rave sequences in cinema

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I'm sure we did this once but i can't find it or anything like it.

Anyway scenes that *actually capture the sprit and feeling of dancing on a dancefloor* to my mind are in City of God and Human Traffic, with a nod in the direction of Boogie Nights and Go. Any others? YouTube links a must!

pisces, Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link

vampire rave brawl (blade 1)

The Macallan 18 Year, Sunday, 12 August 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link

BET YOU NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT THIS WAY, HUH?!?!!

Tape Store, Sunday, 12 August 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link

I like the Pigeon Toed Orange Peel sequence in Clint's "Coogan's Bluff" for its sixties vibe.

Pigeon Toed Orange Peel

Bob Six, Sunday, 12 August 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link

there are some awesome go-go dancer scenes (well, maybe only one, at the beginning) in the Monkees' Head movie.

sleeve, Sunday, 12 August 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link

buck rogers dance scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHJ8NsppF4

jaxon, Sunday, 12 August 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059878/

There is almost nothing but. Featuring the Beau Brummels, Toni Basil (as actress and cinematographer) and a score by Jack Nitzsche.

Telephone thing, Sunday, 12 August 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link

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The Macallan 18 Year, Sunday, 12 August 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link

The best house club scenes I've ever seen were in the French film Clubbed to Death, which is essentially about clubbing as an escape from mundane life, but it's way more artsy than Human Traffic.

Tuomas, Monday, 13 August 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link

I am not your disco daddy!

Bimble, Monday, 13 August 2007 07:28 (sixteen years ago) link

'clubbed to death' is well better than 'human traffic'. visually bits of 'morvern callar' are good for this.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 13 August 2007 08:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Morvern Callar otm

i like the dance scene in Get Carter, but that's probably not what you're looking for

jabba hands, Monday, 13 August 2007 08:42 (sixteen years ago) link

The dance scene in Get Carter?!

pisces, Monday, 13 August 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link

he goes to a club advertising "big beat", seriously.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 13 August 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link

obviously he got into chillout at mates' afterparties

energy flash gordon, Monday, 13 August 2007 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

there aren't many are there?

pisces, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link

MATRIX 2: electric boogaloo

sexyDancer, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link

i love the track playing in that scene (Latour's 'Blue')

blueski, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.fast-rewind.com/seekingsusan2.jpg

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-9i2C7BQg

This brief sequence captures what it's like to be off your tits in a club far more eloquently than the whole of Human Traffic.

chap, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link

i like the disco scene in Rockers, before they takeover!

pipecock, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link

al pacino dancing in serpico always makes me lol
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x5NZ-zMvA60

jaxon, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link

there's also a great leather daddy bar scene in chevy chase's Modern Problems.

jaxon, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link

i forgot about the matrix rave, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related

Jordan, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link

The End of Beau Travail

mehlt, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-SiJqofyIA&feature=related

hoola hoops are what's missing too often from clubs these days. fortunately, the future looks good. from space mutiny, which got mst3k-ified.

andrew m., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link

"she's presenting like a mandrill" made me lol

Jordan, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Morvern Callar thirded

also, Japanese clubbing scene in Babel (just about the only good scene in it i.m.o.)

dmr, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm told there's a scene in CRUISIN (hi dere, Al Pacino!) in which he snorts some amyl nitrate and gets busy on the dance floor. Can anyone corroborate this? I've never seen CRUISIN.

Trip Maker, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link

the house party (or is it at the Rectum?) in Irréversible w/a Bangalter OST

blunt, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm told there's a scene in CRUISIN (hi dere, Al Pacino!) in which he snorts some amyl nitrate and gets busy on the dance floor. Can anyone corroborate this? I've never seen CRUISIN.

-- Trip Maker, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:42 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

CONFIRMED! i came here to post about this.

69, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link

nightclub scene from "Cyclo" with improbable Radiohead soundtrack:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jdOPQj8ccPA

sexyDancer, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link

house party scene from Jacob's Ladder:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SChns5KX1FY

sexyDancer, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link

since nobody else has mentioned it: Groove

rockapads, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Also: Bad Lieutenant

rockapads, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link

i also dig the bit in Layer Cake with the hot chick dancing to "You Got The Love (Bootleg Mix)", that shit is pretty ill. also also , the club scene in Trainspotting is classic.

pipecock, Thursday, 31 January 2008 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link

knocked up lol

deej, Thursday, 31 January 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link

I have always been partial to the crazy italo club in Robocop.

Display Name, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link

in the simpsons episode where homer moves in with the gay roomates in the gay part of town, there is a scene where he goes dancing in a club to forget about his marge marriage woes that always strikes me as incredibly true to the experience of letting it all go on the dancefloor.

sous les paves, Thursday, 31 January 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link

NOT the final scene in vacuuming completely nude in paradise. but thumbs up for eddie murphy's mansion party with 80s boobs and sylvester on the soundtrack

NI, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Go
Kids

Steve Shasta, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Party Girl!

Steve Shasta, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link

^^^all these 3 are good scenes, maybe not Go I need to see that again^^^

Steve Shasta, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link

party girl is the shit.

pipecock, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link


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