All That Jazz

Joe Gideon USED to be a piece of shit.

I was rewatching Fosse/Verdon (incredible, just as good as it was the first time) and it made me want to watch All The Jazz again. However, I discovered that there is no way to watch it online! It isn’t on any streaming service, and it isn’t even available to purchase on Amazon or anything. There’s no way to watch it at all, free or paid.

Yes, it’s an older movie, but it isn’t obscure. It won the Palm D’Or at Cannes! It was nominated for like 9 Oscar’s, it won a couple, and a major miniseries featured it heavily a few years ago. It’s bizarre to not be able to watch it anywhere at all.

Does anybody know why it’s been like, scrubbed from digital media? Is there a reason??

For myself, I haven't been as blown away by a movie in a very long time. Fully worthy of the four Oscars it received, as well as its nine total nominations. 1979 had to be one of the strongest years in film history, at least in the English-speaking world --- Alien, Apocalypse Now, Being There, Manhattan, Breaking Away, The Kids Are Alright, Quadrophenia, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Mad Max, My Brilliant Career -- and All That Jazz is up there with any of them.

Do you agree with the common (to the point of being cliched) criticism that the film is 'self-indulgent?'

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January 9, 2021 is - 1979.

Earlier today I saw a Reddit post related to the oft-repeated question about - like why can't they tell the script is bad? All That Jazz is probably the opposite to that question. I can't imagine the pitch meeting, it must've been bonkers. Bob Fosse, a very famous musical choreographer in New York City and Oscar-winning director of Cabaret, wanted to write and direct an autobiographical movie that included an entire subplot of Fosse hanging out in the palace of his own mind. On paper it looks nuts, but they trusted in Fosse to somehow make it all work, and sweet lord horus he did. After Stanley Kubrick saw All That Jazz in 1979 he reportedly called it the best movie he'd ever seen. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

As for trailers, eeesh. is probably the best because all of the official trailers make it look like it's a musical. While it has musical numbers performed in the movie on stage diegetically, it's not like Moulin Rouge or Chicago. They don't sing dialogue to each other.

. That YouTube clip is abruptly cut though, the opening is about a 10 minute montage of the Broadway audition/hiring process, then we get into the story.

The movie is absolutely manic and amazing. I don't want to say anything about the plot because half the fun is just being surprised, imo, but the movie goes a lot of places emotionally and even gives you some insight into what it was like when Fosse was editing the Lenny Bruce movie Lenny.

As for where you can watch it online, I admit I didn't check before writing this all out and.... no idea. You can pretend it's about 2013 and you're still renting BluRays through the mail , or you can buy it off Amazon, or... concentrate really hard and wish it to manifest. Easily one of the most frustrating things in the information age is to have money and want to buy something but it's unavailable easily. I don't even see it on the damn If anyone does find it somewhere legally, please let me know.

Backstory for an element in the movie: the movie that is being edited by the main guy, Joe Gideon, in the storyline of All That Jazz is based on , the movie about that Fosse directed a few years prior. A lot of you saw The Trial of the Chicago 7 and saw Sasha Baron Cohen play Abbie Hoffman doing comedy in small clubs. The comedy was basically a sort of fireside chat with these politically motivate comedians, not so much rehearsed material. Lenny Bruce was a legend of , predating Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, and even George Carlin.

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This weekend I watched starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Lange. I could not have been more impressed or entertained, it is a really amazing film with a great cast. It is both a comedic and touching representation of the life of an entertainer who clawed his way to the top of the heap.

The movie opens with Scheider doing his morning routine including popping some Dexedrine pills and then rolls into an impressive scene of dancers trying out for a show to the tune of On Broadway. Throughout the film, the main character struggles with his addictions and desire to always put on the best show for his audience.

The movie left me feeling a debt of gratitude to those who entertain me. I really do appreciate them even more after watching this film. Hope you'll check it out.

Not to sound hyperbolic but I literally have no flaws with it. Roy Scheider gives one of the best performances I have ever seen in a movie. His acting as this self-destructive addict is Oscar-worthy, authentic and never overacting. Everything feels real.

The editing is so good and has a whole rhythm to it, the 2 hours fly by. The movie was also unexpectedly hilarious at times, particularly the montage in the hospital where he keeps grabbing the nurse. Yet it also shifts tone from hilarity to sincerity, to heartbreak, and back again in a matter of seconds.

Also that ending. He was about to die, and gave a celebratory farewell piece. The topic itself is depressing but the music accompanying it is catchy. Maybe this is also his character? He covers up his problems with catchy jazz to distract from the bad?

It's a brilliant movie, probably my new favorite musical, really recommend seeing it.

What an incredible movie. Very reminiscent of 8 1/2 but theatrical and over the top in a way that only American musical theater can be. Was struck by the creativity and brutality presented here from Bob Fosse.

Easily would be just as groundbreaking if released today.