Disco king Giorgio Moroder is being honored this month at 92YTribeca
92YTribeca
200 Hudson St. at Canal St.
Select nights through April 30, $12 (closing-night screening and after-party $22)
212-415-5500
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Hansjörg “Giorgio” Moroder turns seventy this month, and 92YTribeca pays tribute to the 1970s/’80s synth-disco master with the booty-shaking series “Electronic Dreams: Giorgio Moroder Film + Music.” Moroder won Oscars for his contributions to Oliver Stone’s Midnight Express (1978), Adrian Lyne’s Flashdance (1983), and Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986), the first two of which are part of the 92YTribeca series; he also composed scores and wrote original songs for Lyne’s Foxes (1980), Joel Schumacher’s D.C. Cab (1983), and Steve Barron’s Electric Dreams (1984), which are part of the fest as well. On April 28, a 35mm print of Moroder’s 1984 version of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent classic, Metropolis, with songs by Billy Squier, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Freddie Mercury, and others, will be shown. The series concludes on April 30 with a screening of American Gigolo (1980) with director Paul Schrader on hand, followed by an after-party curated by Gordon Voidwell and featuring live performances by Emily Warren and the Betters and Chin Chin.