All That Jazz - Music Edition

Buy This Item All That Jazz - Music Edition by 20th Century Fox  Available from Amazon  $10.49  on 11-24-2008     Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane in the Academy Award-winning musical about Bob Fosse's excessive life in show business. Played by Roy Scheider, Fosse's alter-ego drives himself over the edge and soon finds he is caught between a recurring fantasy about his death and the reality of a near-death experience. Dazzlingly presented, this electrifying story about the perils of pushing yourself too hard is filled with Fosse's legendary song-and-dance choreography. Reader Reviews Is it an exceptionally dark musical or the flashiest drama about death ever filmed? Both! What makes this film so fascinating is the integration of virtuoso song-and-dance numbers with penetrating portraiture of a man on the brink of self-destruction, all wrapped up in a handsomely cinematic package. Joe Gideon (a thinly-veiled stand-in for director Bob Fosse, played with terrific natural gusto by the late great Roy Scheider) is obsessed with two things: work and death. We follow him through his exhausting outer life of the former and his tormented inner relationship with the latter, yet despite all this heaviness and bad vibes the movie is never less than 100% entertaining and engaging. Brilliantly acted, shot, edited and choreographed, ALL THAT JAZZ stands as one of the last triumphs of the 1970s American New Wave.

All That Jazz - Music Edition Available from Amazon Price: $10.49 Updated on 11-24-2008.

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