All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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 All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Roy Scheider , Jessica Lange , Leland Palmer , Ann Reinking , and Cliff Gorman
Director: Bob Fosse
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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  5. All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse

ASIN: B00003CX8U
Release Date: 2003-08-19
All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Amazon.co.uk Review

Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse turns the camera on himself in All That Jazz, a nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. It's an indication of his bravura, and possibly his self-absorption, that Fosse (who also co-wrote the script) literally opens alter ego Joe Gideon's heart in a key scene--an unflinching glimpse of cardiac surgery, shot during an actual open-heart procedure.

Roy Scheider makes a brave and largely successful leap out of his usual romantic lead roles to step into Gideon's dancing pumps and supplies a plausible sketch of an extravagant, self-destructive, self-loathing creative dynamo, while Jessica Lange serves as a largely allegorical Muse, one of the various women that the philandering Gideon pursues (and usually abandons). Gideon's other romantic partners include Fosse's own protégé (and a major keeper of his choreographic style since his death) Ann Reinking, whose leggy grace is seductive both "onstage" and off.

Fosse/Gideon's collision course with mortality, as well as his priapic obsession with the opposite sex, may offer insights into the libidinal core of the choreographer's dynamic, sexualised style of dance, but musical aficionados will be forgiven for fast-forwarding to cut out the self-analysis and focus on the music, period. At its best--as in the knockout opening, scored to George Benson's strutting version of "On Broadway", which fuses music, dance and dazzling camera work into a paean to Fosse's hoofer nation--All That Jazz offers a sequence of classic Fosse numbers--hard-edged, caustic and joyously physical. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2006-03-13

I love Bob Fosse’s work, but this movie was a disappointment. The dance numbers are OK, but the storyline is dull and pretentious. Essentially it seems to be a movie about Fosse made for Fosse with little thought for the audience.

4 out of 5 stars All or nothing?.......2004-01-02

I bought this because it was cheap and I know Bob Fosse was responsible for some of the best musicals of the last 30 years. Luckily, despite it being neither a conventional biography nor musical it was a good choice.

The plot, such as it is, revolves around a character assumed to be Fosse (played by Roy Scheider) and his attempts to put on a musical while he struggles for ideas, copes with his own deteriorating health and tries to maintain a relationship with his ex-wife and daughter. There are a lot of flashbacks to his earlier career as well as many dream sequences and hallucinations. It is fairly surreal at times, especially the ending, but it proceeds coherently enough to keep you interested and involved.

The dancing, as you would expect, is great although there aren't many numbers as such. I don't know if it is an accurate depiction of Fosse's life but he comes across as a bit of a tartar. The features are limited to a trailer and a couple of brief, making-of clips. Nothing much, to be honest.

All in all, I liked it a lot but don't expect it to be anything like a stage musical with a strong story or happy ending.

5 out of 5 stars Best Dance / Musical I ever saw!.......2003-08-15

Classic tongue in cheek musical razzmatazz of the stage musical scene. Roys classis cigarette in the shower and the musical deathbed scenes are brilliant and a pertinent anti-smoking jibe.

The raunchy dance scenes are a cut above any new muscial movies.
The production is brilliant and the phrase -"Bring on the dancing girls" (...) is now the common medical phrase used in my profession!

This is a classic film which so many have tried to emulate, mostly failing. It has to be seen to be believed - but you need some imagaination to see the plot; because it has a very clear message and good story line, not just an excuse to have girls dancing as in other movies.

Now converted to DVD for the popular market.
Get it and marvel.

5 out of 5 stars Best musical / dance I ever saw.......2003-08-08

Classic tongue in cheek musical razzmatazz of the stage musical scene. Roys classis cigarette in the shower and the musical deathbed scenes are brilliant and a pertinent anti-smoking jibe.

The raunchy dance scenes are a cut above any new muscial movies.
The production is brilliant and the phrase -"Bring on the dancing girls" before Roy dies is now the common medical phrase used in my profession!

This is a classic film which so many have tried to emulate, mostly failing. It has to be seen to be believed - but you need some imagaination to see the plot; because it has a very clear message and good story line, not just an excuse to have girls dancing as in other movies.

Needs to be converted to DVD for the popular market, but at this price the cassette is very affordable. Get it and marvel.

CjW

5 out of 5 stars It's showtime folks!.......2002-10-19

‘All that Jazz’ is simply one of the best biographical films ever made, like Fellini’s ‘Amarcord’.Everything about this great movie is perfect: the story, the acting, the music and especially the choreography.
This movie is the best Bob Fosse film ever and also this is the performance of a lifetime from Roy Scheider.
23 years after I’m so glad that I could get this great movie in DVD format.
All That Jazz: Music Edition [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Disappointing
  • All or nothing?
  • Best Dance / Musical I ever saw!
  • Best musical / dance I ever saw
  • It's showtime folks!
 All That Jazz: Music Edition [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Roy Scheider , Jessica Lange , Leland Palmer , Ann Reinking , and Cliff Gorman
Director: Bob Fosse
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Musicals Musicals | Classics | Categories | DVD | Video
Classic Classic | Musicals & Stage Performances | Musicals & Classical | Categories | DVD | Video
Film Musicals Film Musicals | Musicals & Stage Performances | Musicals & Classical | Categories | DVD | Video
DVD DVD | Format (binding_browse-bin) | Refinements | DVD | Video
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  1. Fosse [2001] Fosse [2001]
  2. A Chorus Line [1985] A Chorus Line [1985]
  3. Cabaret - 30th Anniversary Special Edition [1972] Cabaret - 30th Anniversary Special Edition [1972]
  4. Sweet Charity [1969] Sweet Charity [1969]
  5. All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse

ASIN: B000MNOY0W
Release Date: 2007-04-03
All That Jazz: Music Edition [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Amazon.co.uk Review

Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse turns the camera on himself in All That Jazz, a nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. It's an indication of his bravura, and possibly his self-absorption, that Fosse (who also co-wrote the script) literally opens alter ego Joe Gideon's heart in a key scene--an unflinching glimpse of cardiac surgery, shot during an actual open-heart procedure.

Roy Scheider makes a brave and largely successful leap out of his usual romantic lead roles to step into Gideon's dancing pumps and supplies a plausible sketch of an extravagant, self-destructive, self-loathing creative dynamo, while Jessica Lange serves as a largely allegorical Muse, one of the various women that the philandering Gideon pursues (and usually abandons). Gideon's other romantic partners include Fosse's own protégé (and a major keeper of his choreographic style since his death) Ann Reinking, whose leggy grace is seductive both "onstage" and off.

Fosse/Gideon's collision course with mortality, as well as his priapic obsession with the opposite sex, may offer insights into the libidinal core of the choreographer's dynamic, sexualised style of dance, but musical aficionados will be forgiven for fast-forwarding to cut out the self-analysis and focus on the music, period. At its best--as in the knockout opening, scored to George Benson's strutting version of "On Broadway", which fuses music, dance and dazzling camera work into a paean to Fosse's hoofer nation--All That Jazz offers a sequence of classic Fosse numbers--hard-edged, caustic and joyously physical. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2006-03-13

I love Bob Fosse’s work, but this movie was a disappointment. The dance numbers are OK, but the storyline is dull and pretentious. Essentially it seems to be a movie about Fosse made for Fosse with little thought for the audience.

4 out of 5 stars All or nothing?.......2004-01-02

I bought this because it was cheap and I know Bob Fosse was responsible for some of the best musicals of the last 30 years. Luckily, despite it being neither a conventional biography nor musical it was a good choice.

The plot, such as it is, revolves around a character assumed to be Fosse (played by Roy Scheider) and his attempts to put on a musical while he struggles for ideas, copes with his own deteriorating health and tries to maintain a relationship with his ex-wife and daughter. There are a lot of flashbacks to his earlier career as well as many dream sequences and hallucinations. It is fairly surreal at times, especially the ending, but it proceeds coherently enough to keep you interested and involved.

The dancing, as you would expect, is great although there aren't many numbers as such. I don't know if it is an accurate depiction of Fosse's life but he comes across as a bit of a tartar. The features are limited to a trailer and a couple of brief, making-of clips. Nothing much, to be honest.

All in all, I liked it a lot but don't expect it to be anything like a stage musical with a strong story or happy ending.

5 out of 5 stars Best Dance / Musical I ever saw!.......2003-08-15

Classic tongue in cheek musical razzmatazz of the stage musical scene. Roys classis cigarette in the shower and the musical deathbed scenes are brilliant and a pertinent anti-smoking jibe.

The raunchy dance scenes are a cut above any new muscial movies.
The production is brilliant and the phrase -"Bring on the dancing girls" (...) is now the common medical phrase used in my profession!

This is a classic film which so many have tried to emulate, mostly failing. It has to be seen to be believed - but you need some imagaination to see the plot; because it has a very clear message and good story line, not just an excuse to have girls dancing as in other movies.

Now converted to DVD for the popular market.
Get it and marvel.

5 out of 5 stars Best musical / dance I ever saw.......2003-08-08

Classic tongue in cheek musical razzmatazz of the stage musical scene. Roys classis cigarette in the shower and the musical deathbed scenes are brilliant and a pertinent anti-smoking jibe.

The raunchy dance scenes are a cut above any new muscial movies.
The production is brilliant and the phrase -"Bring on the dancing girls" before Roy dies is now the common medical phrase used in my profession!

This is a classic film which so many have tried to emulate, mostly failing. It has to be seen to be believed - but you need some imagaination to see the plot; because it has a very clear message and good story line, not just an excuse to have girls dancing as in other movies.

Needs to be converted to DVD for the popular market, but at this price the cassette is very affordable. Get it and marvel.

CjW

5 out of 5 stars It's showtime folks!.......2002-10-19

‘All that Jazz’ is simply one of the best biographical films ever made, like Fellini’s ‘Amarcord’.Everything about this great movie is perfect: the story, the acting, the music and especially the choreography.
This movie is the best Bob Fosse film ever and also this is the performance of a lifetime from Roy Scheider.
23 years after I’m so glad that I could get this great movie in DVD format.
All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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    		All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
    Roy Scheider
    Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
    ProductGroup: DVD
    Binding: DVD

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    Classic Classic | Musicals & Stage Performances | Musicals & Classical | Categories | DVD | Video
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    ASIN: 6307804114
    Release Date: 2005-04-19
    All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
    All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Disappointing
    • All or nothing?
    • Best Dance / Musical I ever saw!
    • Best musical / dance I ever saw
    • It's showtime folks!
    		 All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
    Starring: Roy Scheider , Jessica Lange , Leland Palmer , Ann Reinking , and Cliff Gorman
    Director: Bob Fosse
    Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
    ProductGroup: DVD
    Binding: DVD

    Musicals Musicals | Classics | Categories | DVD | Video
    Classic Classic | Musicals & Stage Performances | Musicals & Classical | Categories | DVD | Video
    Film Musicals Film Musicals | Musicals & Stage Performances | Musicals & Classical | Categories | DVD | Video
    DVD DVD | Format (binding_browse-bin) | Refinements | DVD | Video
    Similar Items:
    1. Fosse [2001] Fosse [2001]
    2. A Chorus Line [1985] A Chorus Line [1985]
    3. Cabaret - 30th Anniversary Special Edition [1972] Cabaret - 30th Anniversary Special Edition [1972]
    4. Sweet Charity [1969] Sweet Charity [1969]
    5. All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse

    ASIN: B000JLTRDG
    Release Date: 2007-01-30
    All That Jazz [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

    Amazon.co.uk Review

    Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse turns the camera on himself in All That Jazz, a nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. It's an indication of his bravura, and possibly his self-absorption, that Fosse (who also co-wrote the script) literally opens alter ego Joe Gideon's heart in a key scene--an unflinching glimpse of cardiac surgery, shot during an actual open-heart procedure.

    Roy Scheider makes a brave and largely successful leap out of his usual romantic lead roles to step into Gideon's dancing pumps and supplies a plausible sketch of an extravagant, self-destructive, self-loathing creative dynamo, while Jessica Lange serves as a largely allegorical Muse, one of the various women that the philandering Gideon pursues (and usually abandons). Gideon's other romantic partners include Fosse's own protégé (and a major keeper of his choreographic style since his death) Ann Reinking, whose leggy grace is seductive both "onstage" and off.

    Fosse/Gideon's collision course with mortality, as well as his priapic obsession with the opposite sex, may offer insights into the libidinal core of the choreographer's dynamic, sexualised style of dance, but musical aficionados will be forgiven for fast-forwarding to cut out the self-analysis and focus on the music, period. At its best--as in the knockout opening, scored to George Benson's strutting version of "On Broadway", which fuses music, dance and dazzling camera work into a paean to Fosse's hoofer nation--All That Jazz offers a sequence of classic Fosse numbers--hard-edged, caustic and joyously physical. --Sam Sutherland

    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2006-03-13

    I love Bob Fosse’s work, but this movie was a disappointment. The dance numbers are OK, but the storyline is dull and pretentious. Essentially it seems to be a movie about Fosse made for Fosse with little thought for the audience.

    4 out of 5 stars All or nothing?.......2004-01-02

    I bought this because it was cheap and I know Bob Fosse was responsible for some of the best musicals of the last 30 years. Luckily, despite it being neither a conventional biography nor musical it was a good choice.

    The plot, such as it is, revolves around a character assumed to be Fosse (played by Roy Scheider) and his attempts to put on a musical while he struggles for ideas, copes with his own deteriorating health and tries to maintain a relationship with his ex-wife and daughter. There are a lot of flashbacks to his earlier career as well as many dream sequences and hallucinations. It is fairly surreal at times, especially the ending, but it proceeds coherently enough to keep you interested and involved.

    The dancing, as you would expect, is great although there aren't many numbers as such. I don't know if it is an accurate depiction of Fosse's life but he comes across as a bit of a tartar. The features are limited to a trailer and a couple of brief, making-of clips. Nothing much, to be honest.

    All in all, I liked it a lot but don't expect it to be anything like a stage musical with a strong story or happy ending.

    5 out of 5 stars Best Dance / Musical I ever saw!.......2003-08-15

    Classic tongue in cheek musical razzmatazz of the stage musical scene. Roys classis cigarette in the shower and the musical deathbed scenes are brilliant and a pertinent anti-smoking jibe.

    The raunchy dance scenes are a cut above any new muscial movies.
    The production is brilliant and the phrase -"Bring on the dancing girls" (...) is now the common medical phrase used in my profession!

    This is a classic film which so many have tried to emulate, mostly failing. It has to be seen to be believed - but you need some imagaination to see the plot; because it has a very clear message and good story line, not just an excuse to have girls dancing as in other movies.

    Now converted to DVD for the popular market.
    Get it and marvel.

    5 out of 5 stars Best musical / dance I ever saw.......2003-08-08

    Classic tongue in cheek musical razzmatazz of the stage musical scene. Roys classis cigarette in the shower and the musical deathbed scenes are brilliant and a pertinent anti-smoking jibe.

    The raunchy dance scenes are a cut above any new muscial movies.
    The production is brilliant and the phrase -"Bring on the dancing girls" before Roy dies is now the common medical phrase used in my profession!

    This is a classic film which so many have tried to emulate, mostly failing. It has to be seen to be believed - but you need some imagaination to see the plot; because it has a very clear message and good story line, not just an excuse to have girls dancing as in other movies.

    Needs to be converted to DVD for the popular market, but at this price the cassette is very affordable. Get it and marvel.

    CjW

    5 out of 5 stars It's showtime folks!.......2002-10-19

    ‘All that Jazz’ is simply one of the best biographical films ever made, like Fellini’s ‘Amarcord’.Everything about this great movie is perfect: the story, the acting, the music and especially the choreography.
    This movie is the best Bob Fosse film ever and also this is the performance of a lifetime from Roy Scheider.
    23 years after I’m so glad that I could get this great movie in DVD format.

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