The exact moment in my life when I knew I had to commit to being an artist. The entire last half hour of this film exploded my cranium. I literally remember sitting there at 13 forcibly resisting the urge to get up out of my seat and somehow, some way be a part of the electricity on screen.
This movie records some of Ann Reinking's absolute peak dancing and thank God for it. She was, after Gwen Verdon, THE female Fosse dancer. The funny bit is that she was Fosse's real life girlfriend during this movie. He also had his real life daughter as one of the younger dancers toward the beginning, too. The girl playing his daughter wasn't her. Gwen, his wife at the time, was also not in the movie but was a major consultant on it for him. They had an amazing working relationship outside the personal one, which was fractured at the best of times and painful at the worst. Nicole, his daughter, wrote in a memoir that after his funeral, the three of them, Gwen, Ann, and herself, just kind of holed up on Long Island together, grieving as one. Gwen and Ann had a decent relationship even though they were romantic rivals. They respected each other a lot and were a lot alike as well. Ann got me into dancing and the jazz/modern dance world. I wanted to be like her, to dance like her. LOL That didn't happen but it was fun at the time, not to mention a hell of a lot of hard work and hard dancing until the money for dance lessons ran out. That's a different story, though. 😉
I think I am going to take a little time every single day of the rest of my life to watch this again and again. Such incredible perfection I can hardly breath until it ends.
Back then movies were really good. Classics all day long. For instance, Transformers was a good movie, but would have been better without all of the cheeky, cheesy banter. I get what you are talking about. "The Rose" was up against "Alien" and neither film won best picture.
OMG! I didn’t know she had passed! Thank you for letting us know! An incredible performer, natural beauty, with the best legs in show biz that went on for miles!!! The reason at 13 that I wanted to be a dancer!She will be missed...
@@josettedaejung6309 Wow, fantastic, nearly 40 years or so and i'm still awed by her flawless performance (and i guess under Bob Fosse it HAD to be flawless). And would have loved to have seen her in Pippin. Please give her my heartfelt compliments. It's a fantastic part in a fantastic movie.
In case anyone's interested, the nurse towards the end of the scene is played by Catherine Shirriff, Canadian (former) actress. Wikipedia has an entry for her.
I suppose it doesn’t matter how much inspiration Fosse took from Ballet and much demand he placed on his dancers to achieve the stylistic accomplishments of ballet, he was always a musical theatre man, therefor dancers are their bodies expendable.
Literally NOBODY ELSE ive ever seen (including Gwen) married the sexiness, the absolute precision, and stunning beauty the way Ann Reinking did here for Bob's choreography. She was sizzling hot. Looking fantastic. This is the best quality I've seen of the digital transfer on RUclips. Thank you! im only sorry i never got to see Ann live. I did see the show twice (Chicago) when she starred in her own production but she was out the first time (saw Nancy Hess) and then saw Marilu Henner second time with Nancy as Velma that time. Wanted to meet Ann to tell her how fabulous she was but didn't get the chance.
I'm looking at Ann Reinking and Erzebet Foldi (the ballet dancers in the "After You've Gone" sequence) nearly down on their knees while still en pointe. Mind. Blown.
Among the many spectacular attributes of this scene (among them the formidable Miss Reinking and the too under celebrated 'adorable-sexy' Leland Palmer, the multiple Joes in hospital beds) is something not often commented upon: as the scene begins, the camera pans across the studio and we see Rosenberg/Walton's ACTUAL set for the dance studio (the 'Take of With Us' scene) which we have heretofore taken to be 'real'/or 'reality' - this is one of the most stunning moments in a film where, up until now, the line between reality and subjective 'fantasy', between the representation (us watching Fosse doing Dustin Hoffman doing Gorman doing Hoffman doing Lenny Bruce) and the thing itself has been made theatrically, playfully, wittily and ironically clear. But almost as an aside, almost too subtle to register, Fosse and editor Alan Heim suddenly throw the whole film's conceit one length further..."Oh, that was a set? Then everything's a set? Well, what isn't a set? Isn't everything I'm seeing just a representation of something no longer there?" - its a fun, fabulous, classy, 'post modernity for dummies' - elegant to a fault and much more palatable than sitting though some droning, humourless lecture about 'dead referents'!
Also, Bob Fosse passed on Cliff Gorman, who does a more than creditable Lenny Bruce here - he's the voice postulating on the 5 stages of grief (from 1:01) in favour of Dustin Hoffman, unarguably the bigger box-office draw for Lenny (1974, the year before All That Jazz). Ah well, that's showbusiness.
Of those 5 stages of death/grief - anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance, I think the last scene of the film, set to 'Bye Bye Love' is Joe Gideon's 'acceptance of his death. Jessica Lange plays the 'Angel of Death', or Death itself but is also an angel of mercy, calming Gideon, so he doesn't go uneasily. A brilliant film
Il revois les épisodes marquants de sa vie alors qu'il se meurt....c'est convenu, je doute que l'on revoie sa vie à la minute fatidique de notre effacement, mais l'art peux s'autoriser ce film splendide et cette séquence "époustouflante" de créativité et morbidité !
0:05 - Opening line should be, “Inconceivable!” To all those here to comment on Fosse, Reinking & other classic dance genre items, I humbly apologize. 🥰
I wonder if this hospital hallucination gave Dennis Potter the idea for his character Philip Marlowe's hospital fantasy in the Singing Detective as portrayed by the recently departed Sir Michael Gambon R.I.P. ?
Who is the kid who played his daughter? It's weird. I like the kid. But I also like most of the choreography and costuming. If I had been the kid I would have liked to have played the role. They could have made the role a boy. Films don't hold to tight to the source material.
Green lit and made by Alan Ladd Jr at the Ladd Company- who believed in talent and took creative challenges........no one else would have made this film about a drug addicted choreographer.
@@alexalexalex797 Thanks. What confuses me now is that it's being used in an American film. Tarantino does it as well here in Pulp Fiction: ruclips.net/video/x5LcEB0zYVU/видео.html
Sorry to be shady and I like it, I’m a younger generation born in early 80’s, but this reminds of Clock work Orange the feeling of it, it’s kind creepy and scary and it’s the same decade as that film 8 years earlier, lol 😂😈, maybe it’s me
@@larkmacgregor3143 ok, who ever directed it, could be the same person done the Clockwork Orange, Lol 😂😈, this film looks interesting too, i need to watch it, 😃
@@leonardssenkindu8445 It's written and directed by Bob Fosse (who did not direct A Clockwork Orange), and it's meant to be sort of autobiographical. If you'd like to know more about Fosse, who was an extremely innovative Broadway and movie choreographer and director, Hulu has a terrific mini series about his life called Fosse/Verdon, which might help you understand a lot of the inside bits that All That Jazz is referencing.
@@larkmacgregor3143 sorry for the delay, I fell asleep, I’m from London, here it’s an early morning 4.04am, thanks for letting me know this again, and the director, 😃
Interesting parallel. Vastly different, and yet, I see your point. Don’t get hung up by the fact that they are both from the 70s. Kubrick and Fosse lived in entirely different universes. Kubrick was old school cinema, Fosse was...BROADWAY!!
The central character (a film and theatre director/choreographer) is dying in hospital after a heart attack and is hallucinating numbers starring his wife, girlfriend, and daughter.
@@unclealand I guess you missed the bit in the film where Gideon said she wasn't suited to the role she wanted to play onstage and where he was also trying to correct her form....
The exact moment in my life when I knew I had to commit to being an artist. The entire last half hour of this film exploded my cranium. I literally remember sitting there at 13 forcibly resisting the urge to get up out of my seat and somehow, some way be a part of the electricity on screen.
Erzebet Foldi was only 13 when she played daughter Michelle, yet she held her own with the likes of Leland Palmer and Ann Reinking-pretty impressive.
Can we take a moment to appreciate these costumes? Stunning.
This movie records some of Ann Reinking's absolute peak dancing and thank God for it. She was, after Gwen Verdon, THE female Fosse dancer. The funny bit is that she was Fosse's real life girlfriend during this movie. He also had his real life daughter as one of the younger dancers toward the beginning, too. The girl playing his daughter wasn't her. Gwen, his wife at the time, was also not in the movie but was a major consultant on it for him. They had an amazing working relationship outside the personal one, which was fractured at the best of times and painful at the worst. Nicole, his daughter, wrote in a memoir that after his funeral, the three of them, Gwen, Ann, and herself, just kind of holed up on Long Island together, grieving as one. Gwen and Ann had a decent relationship even though they were romantic rivals. They respected each other a lot and were a lot alike as well. Ann got me into dancing and the jazz/modern dance world. I wanted to be like her, to dance like her. LOL That didn't happen but it was fun at the time, not to mention a hell of a lot of hard work and hard dancing until the money for dance lessons ran out. That's a different story, though. 😉
I think I am going to take a little time every single day of the rest of my life to watch this again and again. Such incredible perfection I can hardly breath until it ends.
❤no words for the artistry, the talent or the beauty of the women in this cast. Ann was stunning.
This film was genius. I wish I knew people who get this. This and A Clockwork Orange are a mirror held up to my subconscious!
Aestro Ai It, like Fosse is pure genius.
Back then movies were really good. Classics all day long. For instance, Transformers was a good movie, but would have been better without all of the cheeky, cheesy banter. I get what you are talking about. "The Rose" was up against "Alien" and neither film won best picture.
Let’s be friends 😂
Kubrick considered this a perfect film.
@@rnforstall in fact he was once quoted as saying “it’s the best film I’ve ever seen”
All That Jazz - aka "How many layers of meta can we get in this picture"?
all that jazz was Meta before Meta was cool....
Have you seen Stardust Memories?
RIP Ann Reinking
What a great dancer - especially in this role
RIP Ann Reiking, an epitome of health. Too, too young to be taken at 71. Thank you for the beauty that you shared with this world.
OMG! I didn’t know she had passed! Thank you for letting us know! An incredible performer, natural beauty, with the best legs in show biz that went on for miles!!! The reason at 13 that I wanted to be a dancer!She will be missed...
I loved her.
She was the reason I got into dance in the first place.
Incredible dancing, choreography, bodies... the top.
and let's have some love for Leland Palmer.....in a very difficult part....
And a fantastic performance!
Leland (Linda) is my neighbor. She's happy, healthy, and beautiful still.
@@josettedaejung6309 Wow, fantastic, nearly 40 years or so and i'm still awed by her flawless performance (and i guess under Bob Fosse it HAD to be flawless). And would have loved to have seen her in Pippin. Please give her my heartfelt compliments. It's a fantastic part in a fantastic movie.
Maybe the best musical sequence I've ever seen. It's like the ending of 2001 mixed with a meta song and dance scene.
In case anyone's interested, the nurse towards the end of the scene is played by Catherine Shirriff, Canadian (former) actress. Wikipedia has an entry for her.
I see where Bojack got his inspiration from
The 2 ballet dancers in that number took 10 years off the life of their knees with that choreography.
I suppose it doesn’t matter how much inspiration Fosse took from Ballet and much demand he placed on his dancers to achieve the stylistic accomplishments of ballet, he was always a musical theatre man, therefor dancers are their bodies expendable.
Literally NOBODY ELSE ive ever seen (including Gwen) married the sexiness, the absolute precision, and stunning beauty the way Ann Reinking did here for Bob's choreography. She was sizzling hot. Looking fantastic. This is the best quality I've seen of the digital transfer on RUclips. Thank you! im only sorry i never got to see Ann live. I did see the show twice (Chicago) when she starred in her own production but she was out the first time (saw Nancy Hess) and then saw Marilu Henner second time with Nancy as Velma that time. Wanted to meet Ann to tell her how fabulous she was but didn't get the chance.
One of my favorite movies ever!
Ann Reinking is insanely beautiful here, even in Annie and she will be truly missed.
This is heartbreaking.
Masterpiece ✨Now and forever
This is the best edited film I’ve ever seen
I'm looking at Ann Reinking and Erzebet Foldi (the ballet dancers in the "After You've Gone" sequence) nearly down on their knees while still en pointe.
Mind. Blown.
squats en pointe
Agree, wow!
Agreed; absolutely breathtaking.
Jessica lange absolutely NEVER EVER looked hotter than she did here.
Among the many spectacular attributes of this scene (among them the formidable Miss Reinking and the too under celebrated 'adorable-sexy' Leland Palmer, the multiple Joes in hospital beds) is something not often commented upon: as the scene begins, the camera pans across the studio and we see Rosenberg/Walton's ACTUAL set for the dance studio (the 'Take of With Us' scene) which we have heretofore taken to be 'real'/or 'reality' - this is one of the most stunning moments in a film where, up until now, the line between reality and subjective 'fantasy', between the representation (us watching Fosse doing Dustin Hoffman doing Gorman doing Hoffman doing Lenny Bruce) and the thing itself has been made theatrically, playfully, wittily and ironically clear. But almost as an aside, almost too subtle to register, Fosse and editor Alan Heim suddenly throw the whole film's conceit one length further..."Oh, that was a set? Then everything's a set? Well, what isn't a set? Isn't everything I'm seeing just a representation of something no longer there?" - its a fun, fabulous, classy, 'post modernity for dummies' - elegant to a fault and much more palatable than sitting though some droning, humourless lecture about 'dead referents'!
Also, Bob Fosse passed on Cliff Gorman, who does a more than creditable Lenny Bruce here - he's the voice postulating on the 5 stages of grief (from 1:01) in favour of Dustin Hoffman, unarguably the bigger box-office draw for Lenny (1974, the year before All That Jazz). Ah well, that's showbusiness.
Of those 5 stages of death/grief - anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance, I think the last scene of the film, set to 'Bye Bye Love' is Joe Gideon's 'acceptance of his death. Jessica Lange plays the 'Angel of Death', or Death itself but is also an angel of mercy, calming Gideon, so he doesn't go uneasily. A brilliant film
Amazing Ann Reinking! Just gorgeous . Wow
I love how you can tell that Michelle has talent even if she's not as polished as Audrey and Katie.
Yet
Fosse & Verdin's choreography was so detailed and spectacular.👍🏽
Isn't Roy Scheider the most underrated actor of the 70s?
No.
How great was Roy Scheider? So great that I actually went to see this movie! A musical, .... and I despise musicals. (and I actually loved it)
@@SmokeRingsPipeDreams I wouldn't regard this film as a musical.
Between this, French Connection, Jaws, Sorcerer, Marathon Man, his run in the 70s was pretty amazing.
RIP Ann Reinking gone too soon
God this was good.
Il revois les épisodes marquants de sa vie alors qu'il se meurt....c'est convenu, je doute que l'on revoie sa vie à la minute fatidique de notre effacement, mais l'art peux s'autoriser ce film splendide et cette séquence "époustouflante" de créativité et morbidité !
Beautiful beautiful showgirls
Genius!
I dislike hospital hospital scenes, people ill, tubes etc. But this, interspersed w/ great music & dancing - a must. Gosh, such talent.
RIP Ann Reinking
0:05 - Opening line should be, “Inconceivable!”
To all those here to comment on Fosse, Reinking & other classic dance genre items, I humbly apologize. 🥰
I wonder if this hospital hallucination gave Dennis Potter the idea for his character Philip Marlowe's hospital fantasy in the Singing Detective as portrayed by the recently departed Sir Michael Gambon R.I.P. ?
@user-kv2tj4du8p Thank you for your kind comment.
RIP,Anne Reinking./:-(:-( I have not seen this movie.:-(
Боб Фосс - гений...
La danse est au corps ce que la poésie est au roman !
Who is the kid who played his daughter? It's weird. I like the kid. But I also like most of the choreography and costuming. If I had been the kid I would have liked to have played the role. They could have made the role a boy. Films don't hold to tight to the source material.
One of the best movie ever
I’d go straight for Ann Reiking. What a talented woman. And those eyes and legs. Have mercy.
Poor Wallace Shawn. He had one line in the film, and it was the worst line in the entire film.
Inconceivable.
"Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"
*or a profit*
what strikes me in this scene is when michelle sings but in a adult manner. showing joe that he will miss her becoming a woman
NOBODY filmed beautiful women the way Bob Fosse did.
Well, Busby Berkeley did more than hold his own there....
Green lit and made by Alan Ladd Jr at the Ladd Company- who believed in talent and took creative challenges........no one else would have made this film about a drug addicted choreographer.
3:28 What does that gesture mean?
It means “shame on you”
We use it in greece and parts of southern italy, i think also romanians do it.
@@alexalexalex797 Thanks.
What confuses me now is that it's being used in an American film.
Tarantino does it as well here in Pulp Fiction:
ruclips.net/video/x5LcEB0zYVU/видео.html
@@ppuh6tfrz646 hah, weird.
Well. Thats what it means though.
Maybe they’re just trying to be “clever” since 90% of the audience probably wont get it 😂
@@alexalexalex797 Yes, quite possibly.
Thanks for telling me what it meant.
It's hard to Google something like that!!
Ann Reinking , WHATTA WOMAN... ;-D
Dr Sturgess !
This film is so meta.
wau
What did she died from aloha from Maui 🌺🌸🌺🌴
sort of weird to see a film with so much smoking in it. not against it. just weird.
Gt🖤ci🖤s Pá🎼🖤🎼
Sorry to be shady and I like it, I’m a younger generation born in early 80’s, but this reminds of Clock work Orange the feeling of it, it’s kind creepy and scary and it’s the same decade as that film 8 years earlier, lol 😂😈, maybe it’s me
It's *supposed* to be creepy and scary- after all, he's hallucinating about his own death.
@@larkmacgregor3143 ok, who ever directed it, could be the same person done the Clockwork Orange, Lol 😂😈, this film looks interesting too, i need to watch it, 😃
@@leonardssenkindu8445 It's written and directed by Bob Fosse (who did not direct A Clockwork Orange), and it's meant to be sort of autobiographical. If you'd like to know more about Fosse, who was an extremely innovative Broadway and movie choreographer and director, Hulu has a terrific mini series about his life called Fosse/Verdon, which might help you understand a lot of the inside bits that All That Jazz is referencing.
@@larkmacgregor3143 sorry for the delay, I fell asleep, I’m from London, here it’s an early morning 4.04am, thanks for letting me know this again, and the director, 😃
Interesting parallel. Vastly different, and yet, I see your point. Don’t get hung up by the fact that they are both from the 70s. Kubrick and Fosse lived in entirely different universes. Kubrick was old school cinema, Fosse was...BROADWAY!!
Anybody want to give me a TLDR on what the ever living hell is going on??? Love me some Fosse but some of his stuff without context is trippy 😂😂
The central character (a film and theatre director/choreographer) is dying in hospital after a heart attack and is hallucinating numbers starring his wife, girlfriend, and daughter.
I wanted _Deadpool_ to pay homage to this hospital hallucination musical scene so bad.
You deserve to be in jail for this comment
@@samo1952 Umm, how exactly? What are the charges?
@@Wired4Life2 don't bring up capeshit again
@@ggthewhale Don’t tell me what to do.
@@Wired4Life2 get back to reddit you disney shill
what the hell is this movie
ruclips.net/video/-MNrPeDeEE8/видео.html
Amazing
One of the greatest of all time!!
The Best Musical Movies from 1979.
Movie About Death.
1:22 Is Audrey meant to have no talent because she certainly came across that way to me?
Then you need glasses and a long talk with a few professional dancers.
@@unclealand I guess you missed the bit in the film where Gideon said she wasn't suited to the role she wanted to play onstage and where he was also trying to correct her form....
@user-kv2tj4du8p An attempt at humour?
@user-kv2tj4du8p That makes it even worse.
All I can say is that if Bob fosse casts you in a dancing movie and you are dancing, then I don't think you are talentless lol