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Post by bravomailer on Oct 23, 2018 13:58:16 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 23, 2018 21:35:28 GMT
Suicide Squad (2016).
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Post by london777 on Oct 23, 2018 21:56:31 GMT
The first two that sprang to mind are two of the first shown in this thread, the one in "Star Wars" and Rick's. The next was Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive but I then remembered it was some sort of cabaret theater club rather than a nightclub. I love Film Noir and at least a third feature a night-club (and in half of those the female lead is a singer) so I will be back later as I think of examples. For starters: Gilda (1946) dir: Charles Vidor  Ben Gazzara is hugely proud of the weird one he runs in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) dir: John Cassavetes:  It is a ramshackle pastiche of the famously decadent clubs of the Weimar Republic. Which reminds me: Cabaret (1972) dir: Bob Fosse is largely set in one such:  Maybe the best-known "decadent Weimar Republic night-club" film is The Blue Angel (1930) dir: Josef von Sternberg. It was the first German full-length talkie and made Dietrich world-famous.  |
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Post by Sulla on Oct 23, 2018 21:57:13 GMT
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Post by london777 on Oct 23, 2018 22:41:32 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 23, 2018 22:46:18 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 23, 2018 22:51:01 GMT
  Victor Victoria |
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Post by london777 on Oct 23, 2018 22:56:06 GMT
We first meet Petrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the hero of American Psycho (2000) dir: Mary Harron in an exclusive yuppie night-club. When the bartender tells him that it is a cash-only bar, he shouts over the music "You are a fucking ugly bitch. I want to stab you to death and play around with your blood”. (You can tell that it is a quality club. They are playing English music). I am sorry to report that his behavior goes downhill after this promising start:  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 23, 2018 23:01:02 GMT
The Birdcage  and La Cage Aux Folles |
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Post by london777 on Oct 24, 2018 0:27:11 GMT
In 25th Hour (2002) dir: Spike Lee a night-club is the venue where most of the principal characters assemble to talk out their problems and conflicts.  |
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Post by James on Oct 24, 2018 0:44:23 GMT
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has a great one in the opening scene. One of the most batshit crazy openings to a movie I’ve ever seen.  |
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Post by James on Oct 24, 2018 0:45:38 GMT
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Post by london777 on Oct 24, 2018 0:59:15 GMT
Much of Kansas City (1996) dir: Robert Altman is set within a recreation of the historic Hey Hey Club in that city, a night-club for blacks and one of the venues where modern jazz was born. A fairly weak kidnapping story, loosely based on an actual event, is enlivened by some quirky characters (such as Steve Buscemi as an election "fixer") and some terrific jam sessions with jazz musicians from our day recreating the music of Count Basie, Joe Williams, Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins et al, in the evolution from swing to beebop:  |
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Post by london777 on Oct 24, 2018 1:19:24 GMT
In The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) dir: Wes Craven, the hero (Bill Pullman) goes to watch a girl he has met (Kathy Tyson) performing in a Haitian night-club where bogus vodou routines are performed for tourists. When the Big Bad (Zakes Mokae) intervenes, the vodou becomes all too real.  |
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Post by alpha128 on Oct 24, 2018 1:34:48 GMT
From Split Second (1992):
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 24, 2018 3:57:13 GMT
Exotica
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Post by petrolino on Jan 31, 2019 22:40:33 GMT
'The Roaring Twenties' (1939)
'Trouble In Mind' (1985)
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