All that jazz

Author

Bob Fosse

Call Number

• BLU-RAY MUSICAL (CEN)

Edition

Blu ray special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.)

Audience

MPAA rating: R.

Summary

The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this imaginative, self-excoriating musical. Joe Gideon's exhausting work schedule--mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night--and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Special features: 4K digital restoration, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; audio commentary featuring editor Alan Heim ; selected-scene audio commentary by actor Roy Scheider ; new interviews with Heim and Fosse biographer Sam Wasson ; new conversation between actors Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi ; episode of the talk show Tomorrow from 1980, featuring director Bob Fosse and choreographer Agnes de Mille ; interviews with Fosse from 1981 and 1986 ; on-set footage ; Portrait of a choreographer, a 2007 documentary on Fosse ; The soundtrack: perverting the standards, a 2007 documentary about the film's music ; interview with George Benson from 2007, about his song "On Broadway," which opens the film.