© 2020 Collider Cryptomedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Roy Scheider is wonderful as the Fosse fill-in, Ann Reinking affecting as his put-upon girlfriend (I wish she had been in more movie musicals!). As with all Criterion Collection releases, the Blu-ray of All That Jazz comes with a bounty of special features. Here is a movie that has a variety of genres yet the one that sticks out constantly is the musical genre. Indeed, the subject of All That Jazz is, as much as anything else, the technical aspect of filmmaking. They were there in the dancers and all-female band in 1972’s Cabaret. His books include The Women and White Girls. All That Jazz is a masterpiece. The “On Broadway” audition process is infectious, “Take Off With Us” is erotic and mystifying on many levels and I’m a sucker for a good Peter Allen song every now and then and this film has a wonderful number with one involving Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi. Either way, he’s under a lot of stress and his addictions are about to haunt him in the worst way when a mysterious woman named Angelique (Jessica Lange) comes into his life and tempts him to the biggest push of all, the push of death. Criterion does well with this film what it always has done. Max Wright Joshua Benn. Vocals are rich and crisp, though I think I caught a bit of slight distortion in a few scenes. Like most visual and physical artists, Fosse revered language (his closest friends were writers), and I think he handled text as well as, if not better than, anyone out there. In what is easily the biggest surprise for me this year, Criterion releases Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz on Blu-ray in a new dual-format edition, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on a dual-layer disc. Fosse’s quick-kick-kick-turn but metaphysically heavy graces appeared in all his movies. Amazon's Choice recommends highly rated and well-priced products. Admittedly it’s been a while since I’ve sat down and watched All that Jazz, so when I popped the disc in, I was pretty awestruck. This is my third copy which I have given as a present. Some may think of this extravaganza as directorial self-indulgence, a little too much about Fosse the man, that lover of women and showbiz, that striver who never felt he was good enough, a little too much Fellini 8 1?2 influence, but who hasn’t had their head opened by that movie? Ladies and gentlemen, may I present for your delectation the American director Bob Fosse, dead for more than twenty-five years now but living on in a series of works that are so remarkable in their individuality and vision that it is not unusual to feel, while watching any number of the shows he conceived for the stage, or any number of his deeply imaginative motion pictures, that one is, still, in the presence of an actual living, breathing person, restless and contemporary, a body that is like one long sentence filled with ideas about sex, ideas about women, ideas about cinema and entertainment and guilt—a sentence that could have gone on and on were it not for Bob Fosse’s actual body betraying the artist one day in 1987, when he was in Washington, D.C., working on a revival of Sweet Charity, a musical he had choreographed and directed on Broadway twenty years before. Contrast is rock solid, a bit of persistent grain can be seen from time to time, but for those wanting a definitive version of this film – the wait is over. In this Criterion video essay, critic Ma…, New 4K digital restoration, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray, Audio commentary featuring editor Alan Heim, Selected-scene audio commentary by actor Roy Scheider, New interviews with Heim and Fosse biographer Sam Wasson, New conversation between actors Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi, Interview with George Benson from 2007, about his song “On Broadway,” which opens the film, English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Hilton Als. We begin with bodies yearning to be validated—dancers auditioning for a spot in a Broadway show—even as the receptacle of that yearning, the director, Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), chips away at his body; nothing is real for Joe without suffering, especially his own story. ONE OF THE TOP TEN MOVIES EVER MADE. There's a problem loading this menu right now. It’s an absolute must-own for any serious film fan. Somehow we got on the topic of near death experiences which his niece told him I had once went through. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. When Criterion releases a catalog title (which is essentially 95% of their catalog), you know it will look the best it can possibly look. All That Jazz (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Roy Scheider (Actor), Peter Allen (Actor) Formato: Blu-ray. With Jessica Lange as Angel of Death, small part by John Lithgow as nasty producer. A well crafted exploration of a man's life put to the beat of an amazing soundtrack that stands out in a "big show" way. This film is, without a doubt, Roy Schieder's finest hour. Fosse burrows into Gideon’s (and his own) mind, rendering his interior world as phantasmagoric spectacle. With his deeply political but unclassifiable debut feature, Med Hondo set out to establish a transformational presence for global African cinema and to accelerate the emergence of a new Africa. It’s been well worth the wait. And they were there in Ann Reinking’s, Leland Palmer’s, and Jessica Lange’s performances in his most ambitious movie, 1979’s All That Jazz. It’s the mixing of fantasy and reality through the eyes of Joe Gideon and no matter how hard he pushes himself, no matter how close to death he may be, he doesn’t focus on it too much and would rather see death the way he would like it done.

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