The Criterion Collection is a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films on home video.
Bob Fosse made his masterpiece with this film, and Roy Scheider shows why he's one of the best yet underrated actors to ever grace cinema. The cinematography pops in each frame, the music is engrossing, the dance numbers are iconic and get you out of your seat, and the character Joe Gideon is a tragic tale of the nature of showbiz. The hospital scenes have a somber tone, acting as the eulogy to his life as his eventual death is on the horizon. Joe is a man whose ambition for perfection is worth cheering on, but also acts as cautionary tale of pushing yourself to the brink of exhaustion. A truly worthwhile film to own on Criterion.
