Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The Great Scenes # 15: All That Jazz (1979)

Directed by Bob Fosse
 
No, I did not forget this regular feature of mine. What more appropriate way to restart than with probably one of the greatest song & dance numbers ever filmed, at least in my opinion. In this semi-autobiographical film, Roy Scheider plays Joe Gideon, a chain-smoking, pill-popping, womanizing hotshot theater and film director who is both staging his next big Broadway musical and editing his next film while trying to spend time with his ex-wife, daughter, girlfriend and various other women trying to compete for his attention. This is one of the highlights of the film where Joe Gideon presents a number to his producers/investors and this is what he came up with: An erotic, almost orgy like very racy yet beautiful dance sequence that both shows that Fosse is a master in making his stunning choreography look great on film through cinematography and editing.

10 comments:

Outcast said...

Seems like an awesome scene from an awesome film to me!

Anonymous said...

Such a great scene!

Mark said...

That was pretty good :)

Anonymous said...

awesome film indeed

Sub Radar (Mike) said...

Those outfits... 0_0

Anonymous said...

Cool outfits! Twitter

Bersercules said...

Thats not my kind of musical number. I prefer stuff like the song "Spring time for Hitler" in the movie the Producers.

Styron said...

great scene!

Simon black said...

Pretty cool scene.

Lizardmannnn said...

lol I want to see that movie now