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  • Actors: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Cliff Gorman
  • Directors: Bob Fosse
  • Writers: Bob Fosse, Robert Alan Aurthur
  • Producers: Daniel Melnick, Kenneth Utt, Robert Alan Aurthur, Wolfgang Glattes
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, Spanish
  • Subtitles: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Jun 2003
  • Run Time: 118 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006420H
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,797 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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



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Bob Fosse's autobiographical and spellbinding film celebrates show business, stripped of its glamour and dizzy illusions.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Dance / Musical I ever saw!, 15 Aug 2003
By CjW "chris" (England) - See all my reviews
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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.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best musical / dance I ever saw, 8 Aug 2003
By CjW "chris" (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All That Jazz [VHS] [1979] (VHS Tape)
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

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17 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It's showtime folks!, 19 Oct 2002
‘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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4.0 out of 5 stars Showtime...
Anyone expecting a feelgood musical from Bob Fosse should look elsewhere. This is often very uncomfortable viewing, a paeon to his own mortality, beautifully acted by Scheider... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Andy Millward

4.0 out of 5 stars Jazz hands!
Broadway choreographer Bob Fosse wrote and directed this movie based on his own life. Fosse is represented by the character Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) and the film is a series of... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Kona

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I love Bob Fosse’s work, but this movie was a disappointment. The dance numbers are OK, but the storyline is dull and pretentious. Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2006

4.0 out of 5 stars All or nothing?
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. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2004 by Primus

5.0 out of 5 stars Best work of Bob Foss
I think he new it will be his last work (he died several months after it was out). It is his last will and final testatment. Compared to it Cabare is bleak and unisnpiring. Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2001 by Anton R. Ivanov

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