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- Year
- 1979
- Runtime
- 123 min.
- Director
- Bob Fosse
- Genres
- Drama, Musical, Music
- Rating *
- 7.8
- Votes *
- 17,956
- Checks
- 7,086
- Favs
- 628
- Dislikes
- 52
- Favs/checks
- 8.9% (1:11)
- Favs/dislikes
- 12:1
Top comments
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Zeltaebar
All That Jazz surprised me on many levels. Underneath all that dazzle and glitter there was a really serious tone to the movie as it primarily dealt with themes of dysfunctional relationships and death. It also portrayed a deeply flawed, but therefore deeply human man played to perfection by Roy Scheider. This Academy Award-nominated performance is one of the best I've ever seen. The music and dance numbers are all brilliant. Well, perhaps the last one went on a bit too long, though it was probably done on purpose to strengthen the theme and impact of that curtain call. 9 years 2 months ago -
OysteinEgge
I started clapping, alone in my livingroom. Breath taking directing. 9 years 2 months ago -
Siskoid
All That Jazz is Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical film about a musical theater director/choreographer whose lifestyle may finally kill him, and it is a triumph of elliptical editing, working on several levels simultaneously - musical, biopic, deathbed confession, surreal fantasy - at once funny and tragic, and like all its characters, brutally honest. The names have been changed, but even the protagonist's ultimate end prefigure Fosse's own 8 years later, so one can easily see the character's lack of virtue as Fosse's own. He treats himself with such snark, however, that it's hard to find the film a self-serving apology, and I personally loved the way hallucinations broke the fourth wall and revealed the fakery of the entertainment world, which the film itself is a part of. And it all ends on a dark punchline, setting tragedy to comic timing. And of course, some great dance numbers, that goes without saying. Not always easy to take in, but worth your time. 7 years 6 months ago
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