All That Jazz Movie Review 1979

Fosse's autobiographical portrait with Scheider fully occupying his best role as the obsessed, pill-popping, chain-smoking choreographer/director dancing simultaneously with love and death. But even while dying, he creates some great dancing. Vivid and imaginative with exact editing, and an eerie footnote to Fosse's similar death almost ten years later. Egocentric and self-indulgent for sure, but that's entertainment.

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Available on VHS
Running time 120 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Contemporary Musicals, Dance Fever, Biopics: Showbiz, Death & the Afterlife, Price of Fame, New York, New York, Showbiz Musicals

Screenplay

Bob Fosse, Robert Alan Arthur

Cast

Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzebet Foldi, John Lithgow, Max Wright, Deborah Geffner, Michael (Lawrence) Tolan, Keith Gordon, David Margulies

Cinematography

Giuseppe Rotunno

Director

Bob Fosse

Music

Ralph Burns

Other

Nicole Fosse

Awards

Oscars 1979: Art Dir./Set Dec., Costume Des., Film Editing, Orig. Song Score and/or Adapt.; Cannes 1980: Film, Natl. Film Reg. 2001.