Una scena meravigliosa, musica, danza, teatro, cinema fusi perfettamente insieme in un'apoteosi che è pressoché impossibile spiegare a chi non ha visto questo splendido film.
In case anyone cares, the drummer on this number was un-credited, but did (In my opinion) an incredible job. He is/was a San Francisco musician called Mike Hinton.
I saw this movie for the first time back in the early 80s when I was a teenager. I was fascinated by this number, but a bit freaked out, especially when the scene abruptly cut from the outro of the song to the near silence of the morgue. All these years later, this scene washes over me in a VERY different way. It's both thrilling and chilling, and I believe it's one of the best scenes ever filmed in movie history. After watching the entire film again, I also believe Fosse was way ahead of his time.. I was delighted to learn that Kubrick said 'All That Jazz' is the best movie he'd ever seen!
"The time to sing is when your emotional level is too high to just speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel." - Bob Fosse
Roy Scheider wanted this part SO bad he went out and took dance lessons before casting had even begun just so Bob Fosse would consider him. That's commitment. LOL He said in an interview that he just kept showing up wherever Bob was going just to keep himself in Bob's eye and eventually he got the part. I'd say he nailed it. The dance stars of the show were Ann Reinking and Leland Palmer (girlfriend and wife) as well as the dance captain, who was in real life Fosse's dance captain of choice. Ann was also Fosse's current girlfriend at the time so she essentially played herself. Leland Palmer was one of his best dancers (the Fosse dancers), as well. She portrays Gwen Verdon, Fosse's wife, although that part isn't specified. All That Jazz was pretty much Bob Fosse's biopic for himself.
Thanks for that info! I was wondering what was it about Roy Scheider's other work (for e.g., French Connection and Jaws, for pete's sake!!), that made Fosse cast him in this part. It was apparently pure gut commitment on Scheider's part, and he nailed it. How he didn't get the best actor Oscar that year is a mystery, and a travesty.
@@sonycans Thanks, she also essentially played herself in the beginning as the dance captain onstage during the audition scene as well as during the "Take Off With Us" number.
@@stvp68 Actually he did. He did his own singing and dancing in this movie which was quite a departure for Scheider at that time in his career. He was more known as a tough guy type of actor at the time.
The story of a man who lived on and for the stage, always going to extremes. Roy Scheider delivered the performance of his life. But his death is not depicted as something bitter or sad - on the contrary: It's shown as a great musical scene - cheerful and happy! Even his death is a musical act - he died as he lived: for the stage!!
We own the DVD. I watch it about once every 2 months. The intensity can drain one and yet I love it. When Ben Vereen saw the final cut he had to step out for a few minutes.
apart from the acting, the singin, the music, the dancing, the staging, the choreography, the cinematography, the concept (okay, that's basically 8 1/2 credit where's due) the incredible direction, the monumental performers, can we have some love for the ultra perfect editing. not missing a beat, a shot, an expression. All the myriad mini moments inserted in there. the John Lithgow-Roy Scheider handshake - the brief close up of Leland Palmer- the jiggly applauding strippers - no wonder he took forever in the editing room. Psycho shower scene, All that Jazz. Genius.
There's a reason Alan Heim won an Academy Award for All That Jazz. He has a few tutorials here on RU-vid - look him up; he's very entertaining. Also, he is the editor in All That Jazz who is working on Joe Gideon's film "The Standup".
@@martinsorenson1055 it was indeed all very meta-meta this movie.......Bob Fosse Was the only one to chicken out. well, both merciless and narcissistic at the same time, but what a movie. Had the good luck to see An Reinking (and many others) at the peak of her dancing career in Fosse's dancing, and she had a specialthy number " The Dream barre" which was as close to x-rated as you could get away with there. Of course i saw it at a family matinee - LOL. i always imagined this one must have been on his mind when they do the Air-otica number - that and the orgy scene in Pippin. Pretty sure that's supposed to be a Stephen Schwartz hommage, caricature, persiflage...... Now if someone can unearth a video of that Ann Reinking number.......
@@palmereldritch7777 Couple of things: 1) I've always thought that same thing about the Pippin orgy and Air-Rotica! Down to a few of the steps and leaps they do. 2) My shameful, embarrassing Ann Reinking story is meeting her outside a restaurant in Downtown LA. I was seeing pre-Broadway Fosse that night and getting some food; she and her friend had apparently just finished their dinner and were heading back to the theater. I stopped them, said hello, we were seeing the show, love her love her and love her. I didn't catch the name of her friend - but then while sitting in the theater, reading the program, I realized it was none other than Gwen Verdon. I wanted to die.
@@martinsorenson1055 The last steps and roll to the floor of Pippin's orgy ad Airotica are indeed the same As to your story though I can feel you "shame" it's a heck of a story, and i guess by that time Mrs Verdon could take anything life had served her. Theater people have a great sense of drama but are also surprisingly practical when it comes to life's slings and arrows. You are blessed to have met these 2 legends. Only got to see miss Reinking on the Broadway stage in Dancing and very fleetingly during the Dutch company premiere of Dancing. Side note isn't Leland Palmer one of the unsung heroes of All That Jazz as well? Can't have been an easy part to play, and i wish we could have seen her in much more, cause she's electric.
I love this, loved the movie and it saddens me that so few know how important and wonderful this movie was. Nothing else has managed to capture Fosse quite like this.
Michael ', Pasted at the end of this reply is a quote from a Wikipedia article about this movie. As per the quote, the movie is hardly languishing in obscurity. "In 2001, All That Jazz was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.["
M A S T E R P I E C E Anyone who's still watching this in the shit hole of 2022? I'm 35 years old and I first watched this masterpiece when i am 15... Since then I know "I have to become an actor" . Who knows maybe I will, but I am still seeking this dream and this movie give me strengh whenever I needed. With the love from bottom of my heart. Cheers.
Cuando vi esta película no queria irme, queria más. Todo era exacto. Todo era maravilloso. Me enloqueció, cuando logré irme, al otro dia ya estaba sentada viéndola por segunda vez. No tengo idea de cuantas veces la ví. Y menos de cuantas veces la bailé.
As a straight male who was not even born until the mid-80s and hates musicals in general I'm not afraid to say this is one of my all-time favorite movies. I caught it on TV one day and just watched it because I like Roy Scheider. I'm glad I did. This is such a good fucking movie. Goddamn, this movie is great.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. This was the work of the GENIUS Bob Fosse and it was "loosely" based on himself. the dark haired woman who played his mistress in the movie was actually his real life mistress Anne Reiking (sp).
Oh. man. I loved that man! This was so very special. What a trip to the other side of the realm. He is gone as well. Just not fair is it? His passing was as horrifying as Robin Williams. Miss them both.
Still vividly recall first seeing this in a theatre in 1980 - was so blown away that I stayed on for the next show - something that was allowed in those days. And this was Stanley Kubrick’s favorite movie!
I just noticed for the first time that Audrey (his ex-wife) and Michelle (his daughter) are neither applauding nor standing when Joe goes out into the audience.
