All That Jazz (film)
All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse. The film won the Palme d’Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In 2001, All That Jazz was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress.
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All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse. The film won the Palme d’Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In 2001, All That Jazz was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress. It is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of FosSE’s life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director. The story’s structure closely mirrors FosSse’s own health issues at the time of the film’s production. It borrows its title from the Kander and Ebb tune ‘All That jazz’ in the 1975 Broadway production of ‘Chicago’ The film’s structure is often compared to Federico Fellini’s 8½½½’s ‘8½½’ film ‘Fellini & Fellini’, which is another thinly veiled autobiographical film with fantastic elements. It was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures, which later sold the rights to Fox to finance completion of ‘The Stand-Up’, a film about a man’s attempt to edit his film Lenny while staging a Broadway musical, ‘NYLA’ In the film, Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance staging his latest Broadway musical and editing a Hollywood film he has directed.
He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes and a womanizer who constantly flirts and has sex with a stream of women. The producers of NYLA realize that the best way to recoup their money and make a profit is to bet on Gideon’s dying: the insurance proceeds would result in a profit of over half a million dollars. As Gideon goes on life support, he directs extravagant musical dream sequences in his own head starring his daughter, wife, and girlfriend, who all berate him for his behavior. As the doctors try to save him, Joe runs away from his hospital bed behind their backs and explores the basement of the hospital and the autopsy ward before he allows himself to be taken back. In his dying dream, Joe is able to thank his family acquaintances, but the film cuts to his corpse being zipped up in a bag. Joe finally dreams of himself traveling down a hallway to meet Angelique at the end of the hallway.
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