Limelight
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 24, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Billy Corben |
Entertainment Reviews:
Watching Limelight, about the rise and politically engineered fall of onetime Manhattan nightclub kingpin Peter Gatien, is like looking through a family album: If you're in the family, you might be interested.
Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
Transporting as it is, this doc leaves a bad taste in your mouth, if just for the ill will it drudges up.
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New York Daily News
The movie was produced by Jen Gatien, its subject's daughter, so its agenda should be fairly obvious. But it's an engrossing story nonetheless.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: B --
An engaging story which includes corruption, murder, drugs, violence and the right to party.
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BET.com
Rating: B- --
Couldn't be more sympathetic to the much maligned Gatien.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B --
This documentary film about the rise and fall of big nightclubs is a cautionary tale about the abuses of police power as well as a tale of two completely conflicting conservative political policies relating to the regulation of businesses.
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Laramie Movie Scope
Limelight offers a few moderately enlightening interviews and a lot of candy-colored lights.
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NPR
Product Description:
If you went clubbing in New York City in the 1980s and '90s, chances are good you had Peter Gatien to thank for it. Canadian-born Gatien had run several successful nightspots in Ontario before venturing into the United States and opening clubs in Florida and Georgia. In the early '80s, Gatien settled in New York and turned a former Episcopal church into Limelight, which in time became one of the city's hottest dance clubs and the nexus of New York's Club Kid scene. Gatien capitalized on his success by opening three other popular New York nightclubs, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA. But no party lasts forever, and in the mid-'90s, when Mayor Rudy Giuliani launched a campaign to clean up New York, Gatien became a target due to suspected drug use and dealing in his clubs and a murder that was linked to Limelight regulars. In time, Gatien was forced to leave the United States, and rebuilt his empire north of the border. Filmmaker Billy Corben, who explored America's wild ride of the 1970s and '80s in the films COCAINE COWBOYS and SQUARE GROUPER, profiles Gatien and charts the rise and fall of an era in New York nightlife in the documentary LIMELIGHT; the film received its world premiere at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 106,950
- UPC: 876964004374
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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