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Dec 20, 1979 · All That Jazz: Directed by Bob Fosse. With Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer. Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider. The screenplay, by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse, is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director.
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All That Jazz. Director Bob Fosse and star Roy Scheider are at the top of their games in this dazzling, self-aware stage drama about a death-obsessed director-choreographer. Read Critics...
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All That Jazz echoes the tropes of the classic backstage movie musical, but it’s also a groundbreaking work of cinema, thanks largely to Bob Fosse and editor Alan Heim’s avant-garde approach to editing. In this Criterion video essay, critic Ma…
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All That Jazz (song) "All That Jazz" is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago. It has music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, and is the opening song of the musical. The title of the 1979 film, starring Roy Scheider as a character strongly resembling choreographer /stage and film director Bob Fosse, is derived from the song.
Aug 19, 2020 · Bob Fosse's spectacular All That Jazz, now available on DVD in a "Special Music Edition" from 20th Century Fox, belongs to the modernist breed of musicals (e.g., Cabaret, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera) that have too much darkness to be called true comedies at all.
