All That Jazz
Director: Bob Fosse
Genre: Musical, Fantasy, LGBT, Tragedy, New Hollywood, Drama
Year: 1979
Country: United States of America
Language: Spanish Language, English Language
Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Gwen Verdon, Ben Vereen, Julie Hagerty, John Lithgow, Michael Tolan, Irene Kane, Cliff Gorman, Max Wright, William LeMassena, Erzsebet Foldi, Sandahl Bergman
All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his film Lenny while simultaneously staging the 1975 Broadway musical Chicago. It borrows its title from a Kander and Ebb tune in that production.
Joe Gideon is a theatre director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes and "chain-sleeps" with his dancers. Without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest "show" of all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. Decades of overwork and constant stress have gotten to Gideon. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique.
Gideon's condition gets progressively worse. He is rushed
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