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All That Jazz: Music Edition
[1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Cliff Gorman
Director: Bob Fosse
Format: Colour Dubbed DVD-Video Special Edition Subtitled Widescreen NTSC
Released: 03 Apr 2007
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Customer Reviews

Disappointing - By: , 13 Mar 2006
I love Bob Fosse’s work, but this movie was a disappointment. The dance numbers are OK, but the storyline is dull & pretentious. Essentiallly it seems to be a movie about Fosse made for Fosse with little thought for the audience.
All or nothing? - By: Primus, 02 Jan 2004
I bought this because it was cheap & I know Bob Fosse was responsible for some of the best musicals of the last 30 years. Luckily, despite it being neither a conventional biography nor musical it was a good choice.

The plot, such as it is, revolves around a character assumed to be Fosse (played by Roy Scheider) & his attempts to put on a musical while he struggles for ideas, copes with his own deteriorating health & tries to maintain a relationship with his ex-wife & daughter. There are a lot of flashbacks to his earlier career as well as many dream sequences & halllucinations. It is fairly surreal at times, especiallly the ending, but it proceeds coherently enough to keep you interested & involved.

The dancing, as you would expect, is great although there aren't many numbers as such. I don't know if it is an accurate depiction of Fosse's life but he comes across as a bit of a tartar. The features are limited to a trailer & a couple of brief, making-of clips. Nothing much, to be honest.

All in alll, I liked it a lot but don't expect it to be anything like a stage musical with a strong story or happy ending.

Best Dance / Musical I ever saw! - By: CJ Wheatley, 15 Aug 2003
Classic tongue in cheek musical razzmatazz of the stage musical scene. Roys classis cigarette in the shower & the musical deathbed scenes are brilliant & a pertinent anti-smoking jibe.

The raunchy dance scenes are a cut above any new muscial movies.
The production is brilliant & 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 & 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 & marvel.

Best musical / dance I ever saw - By: CJ Wheatley, 08 Aug 2003
Classic tongue in cheek musical razzmatazz of the stage musical scene. Roys classis cigarette in the shower & the musical deathbed scenes are brilliant & a pertinent anti-smoking jibe.

The raunchy dance scenes are a cut above any new muscial movies.
The production is brilliant & 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 & 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 & marvel.

CjW

It's showtime folks! - By: , 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 & especiallly the choreography.
This movie is the best Bob Fosse film ever & 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.