All That Jazz (1979)
Directed by Bob Fosse
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
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Another example is All That Jazz, the semi-autobiographical musical by Bob Fosse, which utilizes the director’s own experiences to tell a story about the addictive nature of show business, mortality, and the struggle to cling to what’s slipping away – love, family, health, fame, and career.
The flashbacks call to mind Bob Fosse’s self-critiques in All That Jazz, or Federico Fellini analyzing his own romantic buffoonery and artistic impotence in 8½.
With a nod to such movies as 8½ and All That Jazz, a feeble script by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer touches on interesting conceits…
No hay realmente mucho espacio para lo metacinematográfico que sí podían exhibir referentes claros como ‘Fellini, ocho y medio’ o ‘All That Jazz (Empieza el espectáculo)’.
…and it wants to be George Clooney’s All That Jazz–a hagiography for the temple of film on the one hand, a self-lacerating reflection on the cost of stardom on the other…
Bob Fosse may have made a thinly disguised biography of his own life in 1979 with ALL THAT JAZZ, but at least he cast a different actor (Roy Scheider) to play him onscreen.
Fosse might otherwise be a curious point of reference for a Gaspar Noé film, but in Climax, All That Jazz is a difficult point of reference to avoid, particularly as the film moves forward and drug use takes over as a primary ‘plot’ point.
An obviously very personal film for Steven Spielberg, “The Fablemans” could easily be compared to Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz” – without the naked women, of course.
It sometimes has a hallucinogenic feel, like All That Jazz (1979), but the thrilling energy of a Bollywood romance comes through in the end, matched with some D.W. Griffith-style last-minute races, and we're hooked.
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(Only Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, one of the best movies ever made, escapes this fate.)
That hasn't kept them from being produced, of course, or from garnering acclaim and awards and significant box office, but they usually have to be modified in some way: revisionist musicals like All That Jazz or New York, New York ; stage-to-screen musicals like Chicago or Mamma Mia ; deliberately awkward "modern" musicals like Dancer in the Dark or Everyone Says I Love You ; and the animated musicals Disney turns out with regularity.
Like his 1979 Oscar nominated film “All That Jazz” a lot of the action in “Punch” takes place within the protagonist’s imagination.
The performer in question is named Riggan Thomson, and as assayed by Michael Keaton, he’s the most meta thing about Alejandro González Iñárritu oddball update of Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical masterwork All That Jazz .
Given creative carte blanche, he seems to have crammed every idea he’s ever had about life, art and that enigma whose name is woman into a single, totemic work — his 8½, his All That Jazz.
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Re-creating the meticulous sense of 1930s atmosphere that Richard Piers Rayner brought to the graphic novel are production designer Dennis Gassner and costume designer Albert Wolsky, a two-time Oscar winner, for "All That Jazz" and "Bugsy."
If you told me somebody’d strapped the Columbia Pictures logo torch-lady down, forked her eyelids open Clockwork-Orange -style, and made her watch the finale of All That Jazz on repeat until Babylon crawled out, I’d believe you.