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Summary: Dated, Self-indulgent - Still the Best!
Review: I first saw this movie in 1983, got the video around 85, replaced it once, and still watch it every six months or so. It's depressing, cynical, caustic, and funny - and if Bob Fosse loved Bob Fosse; still, his love for the musical shines through every scene. Remains my all time favorite movie for the last 15 years; and so seamlessly put together that it wasn't until probably the dozenth or so viewing that I realized Roy Scheider actually can't dance a step.
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Summary: Absolutely Jazzy!!!!
Review: I love the CD.It is filled with a variety of songs.I especially love "Everything Old Is New Again" and "On Broadway".
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Summary: Dazzling
Review: Quite possibly the single most original musical since 1939's Wizard of Oz, All That Jazz is a multi-layered allegory which uses the director's own experience as point of departure, with the American theatre world acting as central metaphor for life and death. The film races from the delicately subtle to the bizarrely tacky, cross cutting between real and imagined events, at once fascinating and frightening in its surrealism, excessiveness, and unrelenting ruthlessness. Not for the faint of heart, and certainly not for some one whose idea of a musical is a light-hearted romp, All That Jazz is an intellectual's art film which defies ready description.
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Summary: Not for Everone!
Review: If you like your movies upbeat and with happy endings, don't watch "All That Jazz." If you dislike Broadway song and dance, stay away. But if you enjoy original, unflinching cinema, this is it!!It is hard to believe that it has been 20 years since I sat stunned after seeing this amazing film in the theater when it was first released. Young Jessica Lange appears as the beautiful, veiled personification of Death; young John Lithgow as an egotistical rival director; brilliant music and choreography; some of the most haunting images I have ever seen in a film: Joe Gideon's farewell to his young daughter and ex-wife in the "Bye Bye, Life" finale, followed by his calm, gliding exit into the arms of Death with a soothing trumpet solo is heartbreaking. This movie is one I watch every couple of years and remains one of my favorites. UNFORGETTABLE!
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Summary: Jazzy? YES!!
Review: All That Jazz is certainly all that jazz. The movie vividly described what some actors, actresses, and directors go through behind the stage. The happy moments, the sad moments, the loving, the caring, and the joyous. I think it gives a marvelous review of real life jazz dancing. I have to say, that I, myself have learnt several dance routines from that movie. Oh, yeah, Roy Scheider was awesome! I think I fell in love with that man!
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Summary: fosse,s own indictment of his life and loves plus the self d
Review: watching a man put all of his foibles and talent on the screen is a rare event. this film is a paen to all the artists whose talent and self destructiveness took them from us. fosse was a special man and those that followed his career can learn from his excesses and brilliance
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Summary: absolute genius
Review: I can understand people's possible objections to the excess and narcissism, but I think it's absolute genius. Stunning dancing, vicious insight into the mind of a showman, and brilliant acting, directing, and, of course, choreography.
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Summary: Self-indulgent Mess.
Review: Can something be both aesthetic and tacky and the same time? All That Jazz, the semi-autobiographical move by Bob Fosse comes close. The film scrapes the bottom of the barrel for movie cliches without realizing it; the characters come across as one-dimensional, and the protagonist fails to arouse empathy or even pity. The saving grace of the movie is the choreography, though at times (like in the finale) even it wreaks with Fosse's ugly self-affirmation. For a superior over-produced mess by Fosse, rent Sweet Charity.
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Summary: Death has never sounded so good
Review: The backbone of one of Hollywood's best movies -- and maybe the most serious movie musical ever -- was this music. Dark and cynical and perfect.
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Summary: BYE-BYE LOVE! BYE-BYE SWEET EXCESS!
Review: A glimpse into the realm of 70s selfishness and self-love. Irrepentable, unlikable, and unredeemable true-life characters from a generation ago care about nothing but thier art. If liquor, dope, and amphetamines will help them find it, then c'est le vie. Sort of wish I were there. A musical dance-a-thon drama alace with wicked excess.
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