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‘Saturday Night Fever’ director in Vancouver for 40th-anniversary screening of the disco movie

Director John Badham will speak at event in August
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If you hate(d) disco music, one guy to blame is .

He’s the film director who made the iconic Saturday Night Fever in the mid-1970s, and he’s coming to Vancouver for a special 40th-anniversary screening of the hit musical.

Badham will attend on Saturday, Aug. 12.

He will introduce movie, and will stick around for a post-screening conversation with film scholar Michael van den Bos.

The theatre, located at 1181 Seymour St., also plays host to the annual , held this year from Sept. 28 to Oct. 13.

By the way, Badham also made a few other films of note, including Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983) and Short Circuit (1986).

tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com



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