Incredibly rare original 35mm print with spectacular 3-Track Mag sound. Please note that this film print has fading color.
In All that Jazz, director Bob Fosse brings to life a musical-drama-fantasy-ride, based loosely on Fosse’s own breakneck pace of a schedule while editing the film Lenny and simultaneously staging the Broadway debut of Chicago. Roy Scheider is Joe Gideon, an artist in search of perfection, who is juggling the stress of completing a film while directing a Broadway play – with a genius that is out of step with his body. Fueled by nicotine, pills, alcohol, the company of beautiful women who compete for his attention, and a monstrous ego, Gideon pushes his heart to its limit and beyond, while courted by Angelique (Jessica Lange) an Angel of Death who is both therapist for Joe’s chaotic personal life, and a flirtation from the hereafter. Nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay – All that Jazz is a fascinating portrait of the toll it takes on an entertainer to create high-art, while his vices and demons trespass on his mortality.
