After 10 months, finally got my movie club to watch All That Jazz, which Kubrick called the greatest movie he'd ever seen when it came out, and I think is a masterpiece, and @Criterion makes it almost impossible to see. No streaming, they even meter ordering DVDs!
We couldn't think of any other autobiographical movie that was both so searingly insightful, and self-indulgent, and...there's just nothing like it.
Anyway, why @Criterion didn't open up streaming at least while Fosse/Verdon was first playing...I'd be really fascinated to hear what is happening around this film.
Some kind of rights issue? Estate issue?
Some kind of rights issue? Estate issue?
A small, small taste of the first part of the movie which is....very different than the second half:
Honestly, I could have talked about this movie for another two hours. Just the way the big musical numbers set up the parameters of ego, intimacy, delusion,
not to mention: denial/anger/bargaining/ depression/acceptance
not to mention: denial/anger/bargaining/ depression/acceptance
The way the movie starts with a straight audition scene to On Broadway (which still establishes so much about Fosse) and then ends in this INSANE version of Bye Bye Love...there's just nothing like it
Also never forget the Fosse/ATJ parody in Bring It On
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