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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. When he is not planning for his ...
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Aug 26, 2014 · All That Jazz is a hard-hitting and brutally honest look at the hedonistic, type-A personality artist that was Bob Fosse and chronicles his life up to and including his death from a heart...
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The editing of “All That Jazz” approximates the act of thinking a characteristic that Ms. Flack said might be responsible for the film’s ability to cover so much narrative terrain so quickly ...
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The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule—mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie by night—and routine of ...
In what is easily the biggest surprise for me this year, Criterion releases Bob Fosse’s All That Jazzon Blu-ray in a new dual-format edition, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on a dual-layer disc. The high-definition transfer is presented in 1080p/24hz. A standard definition version is found on the first dual-layer DVD and...
The Blu-ray and DVD both deliver 3.0 tracks, presented in DTS-HD MA on the Blu-ray and Dolby Digital on the DVD. Dialogue is clean and easy to hear but can be a little flat overall. Much more impressive are the film’s musical numbers which sound to have been remastered and range is far more rich and dynamic during these sequences and could have bee...
Criterion loads up this edition with a number of supplements, both old and new, starting with a 2007 audio commentaryfeaturing editor Alan Heim, which has been taken from the 2007 DVD edition released by Fox. The commentary, which I haven’t listened to before, is a bit disappointing as Heim seems to have trouble filling it with material. There are ...
I’m disappointed by the lack of academic material and probably would have been okay if a couple of the supplements were left aside, but it’s still a fairly stacked edition with a number of perceptive and entertaining features. Pair that with an absolutely wonderful audio/video presentation and you have a good candidate for release of the year. BUY ...
Oscar Noms: Kramer & All That Jazz. “ Kramer vs. Kramer ,” the drama of a child custody fight, won nine Academy Award nominations on Monday – and so, in a surprise, did "All That Jazz," about a Broadway director’s self-destruction. “Kramer vs. Kramer” already has won most of the preliminary movie awards and is favored to win this ...
Aug 28, 2003 · In it, Fosse’s alter ego Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) juggles simultaneous film and stage productions, as well as his broken home life, multiple affairs, and his own failing health (one of Jazz’s many parallels to real life is how it eerily predicted
Feb 16, 2021 · It is a rare joy to be able to write this, but All That Jazz is essentially a perfect film. It is perfectly staged, and powerfully expressed. In terms of technique and skill is almost entirely faultless. It has been more than 40 years since its original release and yet it still feels absolutely vital.
