WEEKEND MOVIE - All That Jazz (1979)

ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)

"Oh, you give all right; presents, clothes. I just wish you weren't so generous with your cock."

Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet Foldi, Deborah Geffner

Hi guys, I'm writing early because my schedules fully booked this weekend.
Winner of 4 Academy Awards, "All That Jazz" is a splendid, grand and truly "f'd" up biopic of director Bob Fosse. The film takes us into his life, but with an alias as Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) who is a famous director/choreographer/performer who kills himself and hurts his love ones with the use of drugs, sex and lies. Scheider dazzles us with his "semi-portrayal" of Fosse and the whole film is a masterwork (as "messed" up as it is, you just got to love it). "All That Jazz" is one of the best movies ever made and the musical number brights up the screen...even though most of them are used in a "disturbing"-sense.

JOE'S EVERY MORNING RITUAL -
"It's showtime, folks."

TAKE OFF WITH US (AIROTICA) - Joe shocks the producers of his Broadway show when he turns their happy, family, airplane musical into an erotic piece of work with naked dancers and sexual sights and sounds. What the producers can't see is...its an uncoventional masterpiece.

KATIE DREAM SEQUENCE -
"You better stop! You better change!
You better stop! You better change!
You better stop and change your ways today;
You better stop, stop, stop, change
PLEASE!"

ANN REINKING ALSO DAZZLES - Here we see Ann Reinking in her last costume in the movie's finale. She not only plays Joe's lover, but she shifts costumes constantly whenever she dances and brings grace to the sceen.

BYE, BYE LIFE -
"Bye, bye happiness
Hello lonliness
I THINK I'M GONNA DIE!

Bye, bye my life...goodbye."