Limelight trailer

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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 1980s New York City club scene. The eye-patch-sporting 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 the shuttering of his glitzy kingdom. Featuring insider interviews with famous players in the club scene as well as key informants in Gatien's high-profile trial, Billy Corben's (Cocaine Cowboys) exuberant documentary aims to set the record straight about Gatien's life as it charts his rise and fall against the transformation of New York, offering a wild ride through a now-closed chapter in the history of the city's nightlife.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Limelight
• Peter Gatien
• Tunnel
• Palladium
• Club USA
• Michael Alig
• Clubland
• Frank Owen
• New York
• Giuliani
• Party Monster
• club kids
• Club Life
• DJ
• dance
• trance
• electro
• house

[unabtanium]

OHHHHH!!! YEAHHHH!!! I remember Limelight, Tunnel, and Sound Factory in NYC, Medusa and Shelter in Chicago, Spundae in San Fran, Cream in the UK, Liquid and Groove Jet in Miami. Yeah, I got around! I wish I had a time machine!!

[ZayaX0712]

Looks Dope.....I Love The Storytelling Manner In Which the Videos Move....You Guys Are GENIUSES!

[adangme]

Interesting, I bet this will be great to see, since you guys do good work. Limelight was said to be THE new wave spot back then.

BTW, do you guys have any unique footage of Palladium from the '80s?