Limelight

2011 • 102 minutos

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As the owner of legendary hotspots like Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, Peter Gatien was the undisputed king of the 1990s New York City club scene. The eye-patchsporting Ontario native built and oversaw a Manhattan empire that counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined the image of an era in New York. Then years of legal battles and police pressure--spearheaded by Mayor Giuliani's determined crackdown on nightlife in the mid-'90s--led to Gatien's eventual deportation to Canada and to the shuttering of his glitzy kingdom.

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Awesome documentary about what is easily the most recent major cultural era, and heavily influential of what has been brewing over the past decade and coming to multiple heads soon, and how it was so heavily influenced by the nurture of one man who was unjustly banned from the United States. Honestly both entertaining and underrated in its historical significance, while also being clarifying and insightful for people who are fans of a variety of things that are addressed within the film. 5* <3