Honestly one of the most tense things I've ever watched, because you know when he stops singing, he'll be dead. You don't want him to stop, but you know he has to, and you're dreading it. Absolutely masterful filmmaking.
The irony of the final scene. Joe's imagined success. Hallucinating on a hospital bed. His belief that in his death, he can summon up one final climactic scene in his head and all the people he held closest to him are happy and proud for him... when the reality is the exact opposite. I do find him hugging his daughter to be particularly telling. He knows she will be sad and he at least pays attention to that. The abrupt cut to the body bag, zip, and the rambunctious stage music that follows. It shows the true nature of the clown-show life Joe led. Even with death, "show business" shines through. What a masterpiece.
Fosse directed this movie. He artfully showed his faults to the world. He understood himself for what he was, a fallen creature like us all. In this final act, he bids farewell to friends, lovers, and all those he hurt, and then embraces his final lover: Death
Someone once said that ballet is architecture in motion. This scene, not only with the performers, but also the throbbing setting, the music, the colors, and the pulsating movement, is absolute perfection. "All That Jazz" tops my list of favorite movies.
M A S T E R P I E C E Anyone who's still watching this in the shit hole of 2022? I'm 35 years old and I first watched this masterpiece when i am 15... Since then I know "I have to become an actor" . Who knows maybe I will, but I am still seeking this dream and this movie give me strengh whenever I needed. With the love from bottom of my heart. Cheers.
0:58 Does anyone else get chills at the sudden change in tenor that the movie takes at the moment in Ben Vereen's monologue when he slips on the dark glasses. It goes from really light hearted to OMG serious (just for a moment) when that happens. It's a terrific moment in all the ways the word "terrific" can mean. It's as though Bob Fosse opened a shutter, just for a moment, on his own inner life and showed it to all of us.
You guys really need to hear Film Editor Alan Heim's commentary on All That Jazz and on this scene in particular. You can tell he loves his work and doesn't have the ego of a director or an actor. It's obvious that he's emotionally overcome by the end of it - and so will you. He won an Oscar for his efforts on All That Jazz and needless to say it was well-deserved.
Ben Vereen showed his singing & dance genius as O'Connor Flood. Rugged life. Lots of life's ups & downs, like Bob Fosse. Roy Scheider was masterful as the Fosse-like Joe Gideon. Outstanding cast, great music, fine movie! 👌😎
Every time for me. The first time I watched this movie I was half paying attention, doing house stuff, but that moment was what made me realize what this scene was, and it haunted me. This has become one of my favorite films.
@@RyanFranklinWilliams yeah I was half watching too, but the brilliance of it just drags you in. Films that celebrate genius can sometimes forget to go beyond the individual, but this was a spectacular production full of amazing ideas. The final sequence is one of the great endings in film.
I remember years ago a friend saying that, instead of a song, they want this scene playing on two big TV screens at their funeral nice and loud. Respect.
When the music is over… Watched this 44 years ago at age 16 av whole bunch of times. It served as a cautious tale to a teenager experimenting with all kinds of drugs and considering a career in performing arts. Prolly saved me from going down that road as I hit the road and travelled instead…
First saw this masterpiece in an Athenian open-air cinema in the summer of 1980. I was not yet 13 years old and had managed to sneak in past the X-rating. Terrific movie and this particular Angel of Death concept finale is just stunning, fresh and voluptuous more than 40 years later. Can't believe this film lost out on the major Oscars to Kramer vs Kramer, which now looks sugary and outdated. A very strong year for Best Actor; Roy Scheider was nominated with Peter Sellers (Being There), Al Pacino (Justice for All), Jack Lemmon (China Syndrome), and winner Dustin Hoffman.
I was in 8th grade when I saw this at the Ionia Theater in Michigan. It had the word "jazz" in it, and I was in the school band, so I was able to make some kind of case. Me and a buddy, an only child, talked his mom into taking us to it. Not sure what my buddy felt about it, but I thought it was genius. At that young age, I thought, "If I can go out like that, even in my head, I will have no regrets." I'm 59 now. Still feel that way.
It was R-rated. I was there too. X is not an MPAA rating it is NC-17 and did not exist until 1984. No one "snuck" past and if you had parental consent (living in Manhattan was parental consent to anything legal) you could watch an R-rated movie at any age you wanted.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 1) who even said the poster was with their parents or an adult guardian at the time? who even said they were in new york- there are a ton of open-air theatres across the world, “athenian” is a style of open-air theatre, and they didn’t specify which one they were at, so how could you know you were there? 2) and fyi, the x-rating was actually introduced in 1968 when the MPAA was founded. there is a 1976 musical film titled “alice in wonderland: an x-rated musical comedy” if you need any concrete proof the x-rating existed before 1984. the nc-17 certification was quite literally created in 1990 due to complaints from studios and filmmakers that the “x-rating” was deterring audiences. people assumed “x-rated” meant sexually explicit, when in fact it meant any type of content that was in fact non-sexual but still unsuitable for children (eg violence). and all that jazz was actually certified x-rated in the UK on initial release. and i am assuming the poster is from the UK due to their use of the word “cinema” over “theatre”. there’s no R rating in the UK. maybe get your facts straight before you try to be a wise guy. :)
This movie is a fucking masterpiece. I showed it to my two teenage daughters. The movie started, they put down their iPhones, and did not pick them up again until the movie was over. That's how fucking great it is.
My dad just showed it to me (I’m also a teenager) and k though it was fucking fantastic. Very underrated movie and Roy Schneider is such a excellent actor. The soundtrack was also excellent. I’m glad your showing your kids good movies just like my dad shows me great movies
Roy Scheider had an incredible run of 3 roles in tremendously demanding movies by equally demanding auteur directors - Jaws, Sorcerer and All That Jazz - hard to think of another actor who put themselves so routinely out of the comfort zone. (Scheider said that doing this scene, as a non singer/dancer, was terrifying).
This is the ONLY movie that I went to see by myself. I had seen it with friends in 1979 when I was 16. It was so staggering that I went back to see it alone.
Es el mejor final de una película EVER! Es el mejor videoclip musical que he visto y la mejor canción que he escuchado. Kubrick tiene razón. Gracias Bob fosse por tanto.
Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. And Ben Vereeniging is perfect. And the camerawork shots and editing is perfect. And the doctor looking at his watch. And Roy’s expressions. And the music. And the band.
Honestly, the ending was really jarring for me. To have this upbeat number end with that really put me over the edge. I suppose it's good in that it was what Fosse wanted.
It is exactly what he wanted. That outro seals the whole movie together, the thing is all that fury in Joe's brain as he died as upbeat as it was represented his genius and all he gave the world and could have given, extinguished. It's a terribly beautiful and tragic ending and this music is what really carries it home.
@@suzpro8165that was the director the production team was courting to replace Joe Gideon. He was considered second best to Joe and they didn't like each other
I never saw this until the last weekend. I was hoping to see more 'Chicago' in it (as in 1982, I was cast in the very first non-professional cast of the show at my college), and I'm also a HUGE Scheider fan. This was truly Roy's greatest performance. And he got beat out for the Oscar by Kramer vs Kramer? C'mon!! This is the greatest homage to a Broadway star since "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Only Scheider wasn't the song and dance man that Cagney was.
Una obra de arte del espectáculo. Uno de los momentos mas sublimes del musical en el cine. No hay nada mas maravilloso, no me canso de verlo una y mil veces....
I was NOT expecting this to get so Drug Trippy during the final third act. I was REALLY high when I saw this and I was absolutely mesmerized by the movie. One of my favorites 44 years later.
As he ascends (or descends) towards Jessica Lange I get freaked out. It is literally terrifying. You don't know which place he is going to and you can tell he is hiding his fear as best he can. And that look she gives him is either angelic or demonic, it's all open to speculation. My God what a movie.
That... Is the only time in the entire movie that he really really smiled. Like he was relieved all of it was over and he knew exactly where he was going.
I think Michael Jackson and Prince went out like this. While they were taking their last breaths, this was going on in their minds. They were giving us one last show.
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Song starts at 1:14
Video starts at 0:00 thanks.
And what starts at 9:51?
To the author of Monkey Wrench, I am so scared right now.
we are all shaking in our boots rn, how could they drop this bomb like this 😭🙏🙏
i will LOSE IT if bill or ford dies
No way gravity falls reference?@@discount-lz9wk
I came from that too😭
@@discount-lz9wk Holy crap gravity falls reference?
9:53 the doctor is checking the time of death
Holy sh*t
Honestly one of the most tense things I've ever watched, because you know when he stops singing, he'll be dead. You don't want him to stop, but you know he has to, and you're dreading it. Absolutely masterful filmmaking.
It's also just marvelous. I doubly don't want it to end. So happy it's 10 minutes.
The irony of the final scene. Joe's imagined success. Hallucinating on a hospital bed. His belief that in his death, he can summon up one final climactic scene in his head and all the people he held closest to him are happy and proud for him... when the reality is the exact opposite. I do find him hugging his daughter to be particularly telling. He knows she will be sad and he at least pays attention to that. The abrupt cut to the body bag, zip, and the rambunctious stage music that follows. It shows the true nature of the clown-show life Joe led. Even with death, "show business" shines through. What a masterpiece.
And philosophically: what is success? What the other people around us think? Or what we think in our minds? Another theme. Goodness, it's all so good.
You never expect the body bag. This is like "The Lannisters send their regards" in "Game of Thrones.
Bro you are on point. Perfect summarization.
@@unclesam6
Le spectacle doit continuer.
The show must go on.
Fosse directed this movie. He artfully showed his faults to the world. He understood himself for what he was, a fallen creature like us all. In this final act, he bids farewell to friends, lovers, and all those he hurt, and then embraces his final lover: Death
Someone once said that ballet is architecture in motion. This scene, not only with the performers, but also the throbbing setting, the music, the colors, and the pulsating movement, is absolute perfection. "All That Jazz" tops my list of favorite movies.
"At least I don't have to lie to you anymore." are almost the saddest last words I can imagine.
billford shippers i see you right now
Shhhhhhhh
My dad would watch this constantly, now I know why. It is incredible
RIP Roy Scheider you beautiful specimen on a man
He was sexy and handsome-
I fell for him hard in jaws when I was 15 haha
I never thought of him as a song and dance man. But he holds his own with Ben Vereen, a truly great song and dance man
This is absolutely one of the greatest moments of humankind. Thrilling, magnetic every time.
This entire scene has strangely touched me.
Nothing strange about that. If there's a better film ending I've never seen it.
M A S T E R P I E C E
Anyone who's still watching this in the shit hole of 2022?
I'm 35 years old and I first watched this masterpiece when i am 15... Since then I know "I have to become an actor" . Who knows maybe I will, but I am still seeking this dream and this movie give me strengh whenever I needed. With the love from bottom of my heart. Cheers.
A top 10 sequence of all time
0:58 Does anyone else get chills at the sudden change in tenor that the movie takes at the moment in Ben Vereen's monologue when he slips on the dark glasses. It goes from really light hearted to OMG serious (just for a moment) when that happens. It's a terrific moment in all the ways the word "terrific" can mean. It's as though Bob Fosse opened a shutter, just for a moment, on his own inner life and showed it to all of us.
I watched this as a kid. I've had nightmares about it for the last forty years.
You guys really need to hear Film Editor Alan Heim's commentary on All That Jazz and on this scene in particular. You can tell he loves his work and doesn't have the ego of a director or an actor. It's obvious that he's emotionally overcome by the end of it - and so will you. He won an Oscar for his efforts on All That Jazz and needless to say it was well-deserved.
One of Bob Fosse's best but then he knew the source material from the beginning.
Ben Vereen showed his singing & dance genius as O'Connor Flood. Rugged life. Lots of life's ups & downs, like Bob Fosse. Roy Scheider was masterful as the Fosse-like Joe Gideon. Outstanding cast, great music, fine movie! 👌😎
Get such a buzz from this scene, but it still chokes me a bit when he goes over to his daughter and wife.
Every time for me. The first time I watched this movie I was half paying attention, doing house stuff, but that moment was what made me realize what this scene was, and it haunted me. This has become one of my favorite films.
@@RyanFranklinWilliams yeah I was half watching too, but the brilliance of it just drags you in. Films that celebrate genius can sometimes forget to go beyond the individual, but this was a spectacular production full of amazing ideas. The final sequence is one of the great endings in film.
I remember years ago a friend saying that, instead of a song, they want this scene playing on two big TV screens at their funeral nice and loud.
Respect.
I want Mark Collie to sing "In Time."
I want Mark Collie to sing "In Time" from the Punisher.
This.
Was your friend me?
Even after watching this many ,many times it is still DYNAMIC!!!
Greatest musical ever.
RIP Roy Scheider, what a fantastic and underrated actor
One of my all-time favourite endings
Best Musical ender ever made!!!
I've seen All Jazz so many times AND always find it unique!! It's beyond words!
When the music is over…
Watched this 44 years ago at age 16 av whole bunch of times.
It served as a cautious tale to a teenager experimenting with all kinds of drugs and considering a career in performing arts.
Prolly saved me from going down that road as I hit the road and travelled instead…
I hope your travels were always safe and gave you nothing but interesting tales and lessons to be told.
First saw this masterpiece in an Athenian open-air cinema in the summer of 1980. I was not yet 13 years old and had managed to sneak in past the X-rating. Terrific movie and this particular Angel of Death concept finale is just stunning, fresh and voluptuous more than 40 years later. Can't believe this film lost out on the major Oscars to Kramer vs Kramer, which now looks sugary and outdated. A very strong year for Best Actor; Roy Scheider was nominated with Peter Sellers (Being There), Al Pacino (Justice for All), Jack Lemmon (China Syndrome), and winner Dustin Hoffman.
I was in 8th grade when I saw this at the Ionia Theater in Michigan. It had the word "jazz" in it, and I was in the school band, so I was able to make some kind of case. Me and a buddy, an only child, talked his mom into taking us to it. Not sure what my buddy felt about it, but I thought it was genius. At that young age, I thought, "If I can go out like that, even in my head, I will have no regrets." I'm 59 now. Still feel that way.
@@weshenry7208 you just articulated the way i feel about this movie thanks!!!! i feel so seen!! :D
I was 12 when I saw this masterpiece. I confunsed the Betamax Box cause I loved Jaws. I tought IT was a new version. The I loved it!!!
It was R-rated. I was there too. X is not an MPAA rating it is NC-17 and did not exist until 1984. No one "snuck" past and if you had parental consent (living in Manhattan was parental consent to anything legal) you could watch an R-rated movie at any age you wanted.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 1) who even said the poster was with their parents or an adult guardian at the time? who even said they were in new york- there are a ton of open-air theatres across the world, “athenian” is a style of open-air theatre, and they didn’t specify which one they were at, so how could you know you were there?
2) and fyi, the x-rating was actually introduced in 1968 when the MPAA was founded. there is a 1976 musical film titled “alice in wonderland: an x-rated musical comedy” if you need any concrete proof the x-rating existed before 1984. the nc-17 certification was quite literally created in 1990 due to complaints from studios and filmmakers that the “x-rating” was deterring audiences. people assumed “x-rated” meant sexually explicit, when in fact it meant any type of content that was in fact non-sexual but still unsuitable for children (eg violence). and all that jazz was actually certified x-rated in the UK on initial release. and i am assuming the poster is from the UK due to their use of the word “cinema” over “theatre”. there’s no R rating in the UK.
maybe get your facts straight before you try to be a wise guy. :)
The way Roy threw himself into this role... JFC. Ann and Ben are Fosse trained dancers... They are at the top of their game...
one of my favorite movies. Have used Ben Vereen's monologue for auditions
Dude, Ben Vereen RULED this finale! I'm happy to find someone who feels the same way.
This movie is a fucking masterpiece. I showed it to my two teenage daughters. The movie started, they put down their iPhones, and did not pick them up again until the movie was over. That's how fucking great it is.
My dad just showed it to me (I’m also a teenager) and k though it was fucking fantastic. Very underrated movie and Roy Schneider is such a excellent actor. The soundtrack was also excellent. I’m glad your showing your kids good movies just like my dad shows me great movies
That proves it Chris!
Thats awesome :) i bet that will be a great memory for them i loved watching movies with my dad too
Roy Scheider had an incredible run of 3 roles in tremendously demanding movies by equally demanding auteur directors - Jaws, Sorcerer and All That Jazz - hard to think of another actor who put themselves so routinely out of the comfort zone. (Scheider said that doing this scene, as a non singer/dancer, was terrifying).
In the french connection the firts nominacion for the oscar
This is the ONLY movie that I went to see by myself. I had seen it with friends in 1979 when I was 16. It was so staggering that I went back to see it alone.
ATJ came out when I was 7yrs old, ands I did not watch until 2005 flying from Cannes. I was old enough to truly appreciate this production . . . .
One of my all time favorite movies. Shows Fosse’s brilliant eye for talent. Everyone was awesome.
Fantastic performances all throughout the film.
best movie ever. fight me.
Brilliant and vey wise and emotional ending .
This scene is so insightful it made me ponder my life for a moment
It's just a stunning setpiece in an outstanding film. It just gives it the perfect finale.
Brings the house down...great tune, great finale.
8:19 "at least I won't have to lie to you anymore" will never not break me.
Perfection.
This movie has guts. It puts an unlikeable character front and center and ends in grand tragedy. It’s not audience-tested. Amazing stuff.
Es el mejor final de una película EVER! Es el mejor videoclip musical que he visto y la mejor canción que he escuchado. Kubrick tiene razón. Gracias Bob fosse por tanto.
Según vi que kubrick dijo que esta es una de sus peliculas favoritas ?
All that Jazz isn’t appreciated enough for my liking
Because it’s basically 8 and a half with dancing.
this is the ending i was expecting in Joker 2 movie... the ending i was hoping for
Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.
And Ben Vereeniging is perfect.
And the camerawork shots and editing is perfect.
And the doctor looking at his watch.
And Roy’s expressions.
And the music.
And the band.
Honestly, the ending was really jarring for me. To have this upbeat number end with that really put me over the edge. I suppose it's good in that it was what Fosse wanted.
It is exactly what he wanted. That outro seals the whole movie together, the thing is all that fury in Joe's brain as he died as upbeat as it was represented his genius and all he gave the world and could have given, extinguished. It's a terribly beautiful and tragic ending and this music is what really carries it home.
9:52 Doctor checking the time of death in reality.
Oh shit
And that one guy, with the cashmere scarf who said something and Joe turned away, with quite a face on him.
@@suzpro8165that was the director the production team was courting to replace Joe Gideon. He was considered second best to Joe and they didn't like each other
When I die I hope the last thing I see is Jessica Lange
☝️
Yeah,me too.
Masterpiece
I never saw this until the last weekend. I was hoping to see more 'Chicago' in it (as in 1982, I was cast in the very first non-professional cast of the show at my college), and I'm also a HUGE Scheider fan. This was truly Roy's greatest performance. And he got beat out for the Oscar by Kramer vs Kramer? C'mon!! This is the greatest homage to a Broadway star since "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Only Scheider wasn't the song and dance man that Cagney was.
👋
Una obra de arte del espectáculo. Uno de los momentos mas sublimes del musical en el cine. No hay nada mas maravilloso, no me canso de verlo una y mil veces....
Ben Vereen is the perfect foil for Bob Fossee - er, sorry, Joe Gideon.
THE GREATEST !!!
Най добрата музика
日本のテレビは普通にこんな名画をゴールデンタイムに流していた。
Lucky you ~
It's so weird to think of Bob Fosse writing that introduction about himself! 😆
Flawlesssssss
The horn at 8:27 is the highlight of the entire song.
One of my fave movies!!
Ben Vereen - yes!!!!
ナッチャンの吹き替え
「ショータイムだよーん」❤
も大好き！
Fantastic editing
This is ingenious!!!
Imagine a movie being as great as this that at the Cannes film festival that you had to share the top prize with a Kurosawa film.
At the end, life is really a showbusiness
Quel film !
Uno de tantos musicales de culto,una época prodigiosa de talento,música , coreografías.ect.Bellos recuerdos.
🔺️🔺️🔺️🔺️
I was NOT expecting this to get so Drug Trippy during the final third act. I was REALLY high when I saw this and I was absolutely mesmerized by the movie. One of my favorites 44 years later.
"What a way to GO!!"
Favorite Ben Vereen sequences with Kathryn Doby and Ann Reinking:
3:20 (through 30 seconds)
7:00 (through 70 seconds)
As he ascends (or descends) towards Jessica Lange I get freaked out. It is literally terrifying. You don't know which place he is going to and you can tell he is hiding his fear as best he can. And that look she gives him is either angelic or demonic, it's all open to speculation. My God what a movie.
That...
Is the only time in the entire movie that he really really smiled.
Like he was relieved all of it was over and he knew exactly where he was going.
Amazing musicle❤❤
The Fosse fate, something we really study; difficult music.
When I die, can Jessica Langer take me?
Gracias!!! Lovely
Qué obra maestra!
Esto es muy bueno y a la vez muy deprimente, simplemente te vas.
A Celebration of his Life or his Dance of Death.
I despise most musicals, but ATJazz is a brilliant fun story and the entire cast were wonderful.
I think the saddest thing is he died alone.
Sound Like All Dogs Got To Heaven
so true tbh
That’s one way to kill a character!
"This must have cost a fortune!"
Bob Fosse Awesome
Nobody on this planet deserves Ben Vereen.
This was his past and an unfortunate premonition.
❤
lovin them standards - wait this is from the 1950s fuh
10:55 - That's a wrap, I guess. We'll fix the rest in editing.
I wish my ending would be like this.
America Horror story switch.....In this, He floats towards Jessica.......in American Story Jessica floats the same way.to her end.
Is no one going to mention the use of Billy Joel’s “Stiletto” and “Captain Jack” in the music?
I think this is the guy the Simpsons ballet guy is supposed to parody.
I think Michael Jackson and Prince went out like this. While they were taking their last breaths, this was going on in their minds. They were giving us one last show.
i mean michael jackson literally went out like this
Elvis had to go out like this, too.
Judy Garland, also, and most likely Karen Carpenter.
Рой Шайдър - последен филм "Наказателят"....
Baz luhrmann must see this
Baz Luhrmann After Remake Of All That Jazz