All that jazz

Summary: The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.

Record details

ISBN: 1604658797
ISBN: 9781604658798
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
videodisc
Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from web page. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Special features: Disc 1. New 4K digital restoration; Commentary (by editor Alan Heim); Selected-scene commentary (by actor Roy Scheider); Reinking and Foldi (new conversation between actors Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi, discuss the pas de deux scene, the film, and the director); Trailer. Disc 2: Tomorrow (Bob Fosse and Agnes de Mille appear on an episode of Tom Snyder's late-night talk show Tomorrow, originally aired 1:00 a.m. on January 31, 1980); Alan Heim (the film editor discusses the process of coming up with the film's editing style); Sam Wasson (author of the biography Fosse, discusses the motivations, self-doubts, and compulsions that drove Bob Fosse to create); The South Bank Show (hosted by Melvyn Bragg, features an extensive interview with Bob Fosse, originally aired March 8, 1981); Gene Shalit interview with Bob Fosse (film and television critic Gene Shalit interviews the director in 1986); On the set: Fosse directing, Scheider interview (footage of Bob Fosse directing the cattle call sequence and a brief interview with actor Roy Scheider); Portrait of a choreographer (2007 documentary on Bob Fosse's choreography style, features interviews with various collaborators and admirers, including Liza Minnelli, dancer Sandahl Bergman, choreographer and filmmaker Rob Marshall, editor Alan Heim, and others); The soundtrack : perverting the standards (a 2007 documentary about the film's music, features interviews with composers Glen Ballard, Jerry Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Diane Warren as well as Liza Minnelli and Alan Heim); The making of the song "On Broadway" (2007 interview with singer-songwriter George Benson about the creation of his hit 1963 song). Insert features an essay by critic Hilton Als.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; editor, Alan Heim ; production designer, Philip Rosenberg ; costume designer, Albert Wolsky ; music arranged and conducted by Ralph Burns ; choreography by Bob Fosse ; musical coordinator, Stanley Lebowsky.
Participant or Performer Note:	Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet Foldi, Michael Tolan, Max Wright, William LeMassena, Chris Chase, Debroah Geffner, Kathryn Doby, Anthony Holland, Robert Hitt, David Margulies, Sue Paul, Keith Gordon, Frankie Man, Alan Heim, John Lithgow ; principal dancers, Sandahl Bergman, Eileen Casey, Bruce Davis, Gary Flannery, Jennifer Nairn-Smith, Danny Ruvolo, Leland Schwantes, John Sowinski, Candace Tovar, Rima Vetter.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: R.
System Details Note:	DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 3.0 surround sound.