| All That Jazz - 浮生若梦 (1979)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Roy Scheider |
Joe Gideon
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| Jessica Lange |
Angelique
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| Ann Reinking |
Kate Jagger
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| Leland Palmer |
Audrey Paris
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| Cliff Gorman |
Davis Newman
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| Ben Vereen |
O'Connor Flood
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| Erzsebet Foldi |
Michelle
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| Michael Tolan |
Dr. Ballinger
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| Max Wright |
Joshua Penn
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| William LeMassena |
Jonesy Hecht
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Musical |
| Director |
Bob Fosse |
| Writer |
Robert Alan Arthur; Bob Fosse |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
G (General Audience) |
| Running Time |
123 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
Synopsis
"A masterwork. An extravagant achievement that will be seen again andiagain." -Gene Shalit, NBC TV
Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at lifeiin theifast lane isitheiAcademy Award-winning musical about Bob Fosse's excessive lifeiin show business. Played byiRoy Scheider, Fosse's alter-ego drives himself over theiedge andisoon finds he isicaught betweenia recurring fantasy about his death anditheireality ofia near-death experience. Dazzlingly presented, this electrifying story about theiperils of pushing yourself too hard isifilled with Fosse's legendary song-and-dance choreography.
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| Personal Details |
| My Rating |
6 |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
308 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
2002-6-26 |
| Purchase Price |
￥8.00 |
| Store |
XXTT |
| Owner |
Beetle |
| Links |
IMDB
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
1.66 Letterboxed |
| Layers |
Single Side, Single Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
024543018797 |
| Release Date |
2002 |
| Subtitles |
Chinese; English |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Notes
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse (Cabaret, Lenny) turns the camera on himself in this nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. It's an indication of his bravura, and possibly his self-absorption, that Fosse (who also cowrote the script) literally opens alter ego Joe Gideon's heart in a key scene--an unflinching glimpse of cardiac surgery, shot during an actual open-heart procedure.
Roy Scheider makes a brave and largely successful leap out of his usual romantic lead roles to step into Gideon's dancing pumps, and supplies a plausible sketch of an extravagant, self-destructive, self-loathing creative dynamo, while Jessica Lange serves as a largely allegorical Muse, one of the various women that the philandering Gideon pursues (and usually abandons). Gideon's other romantic partners include Fosse's own protégé (and a major keeper of his choreographic style since his death), Ann Reinking, whose leggy grace is seductive both "onstage" and off.
Fosse/Gideon's collision course with mortality, as well as his priapic obsession with the opposite sex, may offer clues into the libidinal core of the choreographer's dynamic, sexualized style of dance, but musical aficionados will be forgiven for fast-forwarding to cut out the self-analysis and focus on the music, period. At its best--as in the knockout opening, scored to George Benson's strutting version of "On Broadway," which fuses music, dance, and dazzling camera work into a paean to Fosse's hoofer nation--All That Jazz offers a sequence of classic Fosse numbers, hard-edged, caustic, and joyously physical. --Sam Sutherland --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.
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