All That Jazz [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

All That Jazz [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Bob Fosse Cast: Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider
, Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange
, Ann Reinking
Ann Reinking
, Leland Palmer
Leland Palmer
Bob Fosse
All That Jazz [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

All That Jazz [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Bob Fosse Cast: Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider
, Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange
, Ann Reinking
Ann Reinking
, Leland Palmer
Leland Palmer
Bob Fosse

Blu-ray (Color / Wide Screen)

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Overview

"It's showtime!" In this part film à clef, part musical phantasmagoria, director/choreographer Bob Fosse takes a Felliniesque look at the life of a driven entertainer. Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider, channeling Fosse) is the ultimate work (and pleasure)-aholic, as he knocks back a daily dose of amphetamines to juggle a new Broadway production while editing his new movie, not to mention ex-wife Audrey (Leland Palmer), steady girlfriend Kate (Ann Reinking), a young daughter, and various conquests. Joe cannot, however, avoid intimations of mortality from white-clad vision Angelique (Jessica Lange) that lead him to look back at his life as he heads for a near-inevitable coronary and his departure from this mortal coil with the appropriate razzle-dazzle. Taking his cue from Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963), Fosse moves from realistic dance numbers to extravagant flights of cinematic fancy, as Joe meditates on his life, his women, and his death. Following a similarly dark revisionist vein as Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977), Fosse shows the stiff price that entertaining exacts on entertainers (among other things, he intercuts graphic footage of open-heart surgery with a song and dance), mercilessly reversing the feel-good mood of classical movie musicals. Critics praised Fosse's daring even as they damned his self-indulgence, while Scheider was lauded for giving the best performance of his career. Though not a disastrous failure, All That Jazz came nowhere near the popularity of 1978's Grease, as late '70s audiences increasingly turned away from "difficult" movies. For all its excesses, Fosse's fiercely personal approach turned All That Jazz into another striking work from one of the few directors able to make, and experiment with, movie musicals after the 1960s.

Product Details

Release Date: 01/29/2019
UPC: 0715515225410
Original Release: 1979
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Surround]
Language: English
Time: 2:03:00
Sales rank: 7,982

Special Features

4K digital restoration, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Audio commentary featuring editor Alan Heim Selected-scene audio commentary by actor Roy Scheider Interviews from 2014 with Heim and Fosse biographer Sam Wasson Conversation from 2014 between actors Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi Episode of the talk show Tomorrow from 1980, featuring director Bob Fosse and choreographer Agnes de Mille Interviews with Fosse from 1981 and 1986 On-set footage Portrait of a Choreographer, a 2007 documentary on Fosse The Soundtrack: Perverting the Standards, a 2007 documentary about the film's music Interview with George Benson from 2007, about his song "On Broadway," which opens the film

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Roy Scheider Joe Gideon
Jessica Lange Angelique
Ann Reinking Kate
Leland Palmer Audrey
Erzsebet Foldi Michelle
Cliff Gorman Davis Newman
Ben Vereen O'Connor Flood
Deborah Geffner Victoria
Keith Gordon Joe (as a boy)
Michael Tolan Dr. Ballinger
Chris Chase Leslie
John Lithgow Lucas Sergeant
Max Wright Joshua
William LeMassena Jonesy
Kathryn Doby Kathryn
Anthony Holland Paul
William La Messena Jonesy Hecht
Robert Hitt Ted Christopher
David Margulies Larry Goldie
Sue Paul Stacy
Frankie Man Comic
Alan Heim Eddie
Irene Kane Actor
Nicole Fosse Actor
Sandahl Bergman Sandahl
Ben Masters Doctor Garry
Theresa Merritt Cast of NY/LA
CCH Pounder Nurse Blake
Wallace Shawn Assistant Insurance Man
Sloane Shelton Mother
Ralph Burns Conductor,Composer

Technical Credits
Robert Alan Aurthur Producer,Screenwriter
Bob Fosse Director,Screenwriter
Daniel Melnick Executive Producer,Producer
Chris Newman Sound Mixer
Wolfgang Glattes Producer
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