Saturday Night Fever [DVD]

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Terrence, Sir (May 8, 2009). "Saturday Night Fever Blu-ray Review". Blu-ray.com . Retrieved November 25, 2013.

Van Gelder, Lawrence (January 6, 1978). "New race: Donna Pescow". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved November 9, 2020. Starting in the late 1990s, VH1, TBS and TNT began showing the original R-rated version with a TV-14 rating, although with nudity removed/censored, and the stronger profanity either being edited or (on recent airings) silenced. [ citation needed] However, this version of the TV cut included some innuendo included in the original theatrical release that was edited or removed from the PG version. Turner Classic Movies has aired the film in both versions: the original R-rated version (rated TV-MA on the network) is the cut commonly broadcast, although the PG cut has been presented as part of TCM's family-oriented "Funday Night at the Movies" and "Essentials Jr." film showcases. a b Leduff, Charlie (June 9, 1996). "Saturday Night Fever: The Life". The New York Times . Retrieved May 23, 2010. In 2008, director Pablo Larraín made a film, Tony Manero, about a Chilean dancer obsessed by the main character in Saturday Night Fever who tries to win a Tony Manero look-alike contest. [66] a b Richards, Chris (March 20, 2013). "Library of Congress adds 'Saturday Night Fever,' Simon and Garfunkel, Pink Floyd to audio archive". San Jose Mercury News. Archived from the original on April 8, 2014 . Retrieved April 7, 2014.

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Tony and his friends ritually stop on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to clown around. The bridge has special significance for Tony as a symbol of escape to a better life. DVD Premiere Awards 2002 Nominations & Winners". DVD Exclusive Magazine. Archived from the original on January 14, 2005. In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units. [10] The album stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboard 's album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. Three singles from the album contributed by the Bee Gees—" How Deep Is Your Love", " Stayin' Alive" and " Night Fever"—along with Yvonne Elliman's " If I Can't Have You", all reached No. 1 in the US. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation. [11] The album has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress in 2014 for being culturally significant. [12] Di Nunzio, Miriam (April 28, 2017). "Director: 'Saturday Night Fever' stayin' relevant after 40 years". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved September 18, 2023.

This "30th anniversary special collector's edition" is, incredibly, only the second DVD release of Saturday Night Fever, following a 2002 release that marked the film's 25th anniversary. Die-hard fans will want to hang onto the previous disc, since a trio of deleted scenes and a VH-1 special are missing from this release. I'll detail the differences further below. The DVD

Siskel, Gene (December 16, 1977). "Energy, reality make 'Fever' dance". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved May 20, 2022. The largely unknown cast adds terrific flavor and verisimilitude, augmenting the experience of the great Julie Bovasso, as Tony's mom, with new faces like Donna Pescow, Barry Miller, and, briefly, Fran Drescher.

The album, like its parent film, has been added to the Library of Congress via the National Recording Registry. [12] Source material [ edit ] a b c d e f g Harmetz, Aljean (January 11, 1979). "Fever' Redone for PG Rating". The New York Times . Retrieved September 18, 2023. John Travolta commands the screen as Tony Manero, a strutting 19-year-old in blue collar Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, who suffers a dead-end job in a paint store to afford the glamour of weekends at a swanky Manhattan disco. Though marginal in the everyday world, he dominates the pulsating dance floor. His indefatigable confidence, silky moves, and dreamy good looks weaken the knees of all the women in his sight — except for Brooklynese expatriate Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney), who is awkwardly trying to recast herself as a Manhattan elitist. At first Tony is drawn to her dancing, but, while her pretenses annoy him, he also yearns to break out of the juvenile soap opera of his macho street life. The Red Hot Chili Peppers 2016 music video for their song " Go Robot" is heavily inspired by the film and recreates the opening scene and classic characters from the film who are portrayed by each band member. [69]a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Kashner, Sam (August 15, 2013). " Fever Pitch". Vanity Fair . Retrieved September 26, 2023. When HBO acquired the pay television rights to Saturday Night Fever in 1980, both versions of the film were aired by the network: the PG version during the day, and the R version during the evening (HBO, which had primarily operated on a late afternoon-to-early overnight schedule at the time, had maintained a programming policy restricting the showing of R-rated films to the nighttime hours, a rule that continued long after it switched to a 24-hour schedule full-time in December 1981). The R-rated theatrical version premiered on the network at midnight Eastern Time on January 1, 1980. [ citation needed] Johanson, MaryAnn (May 25, 2007). "The 10 Best Movies of 1977 – Movies". Film.com. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010 . Retrieved April 11, 2011. Sanburn, Josh (December 2, 2010). "On the Floor in Saturday Night Fever". Time . Retrieved September 26, 2023. Karlin, Katherine (June 12, 2019). "What We Don't Remember About Saturday Night Fever". Bright Wall/Dark Room . Retrieved March 16, 2021.