All That Jazz (film)
- Roy Scheider: Joe Gideon
- Jessica Lange: Angelique
- Leland Palmer: Audrey Paris
- Ann Reinking: Kate Jagger
- Cliff Gorman: Davis Newman
- Ben Vereen: O'Connor Flood
- Erzsebet Foldi: Michelle Gideon
- Keith Gordon: Joe Gideon ( young)
- Michael Tolan: Dr. Ballinger
- Max Wright: Joshua Penn
- William LeMassena: Jonesy Hecht
All That Jazz is an American feature film from 1979, which looks behind the scenes of musical productions.
Action
The choreographer Joe Gideon is a successful director and choreographer on Broadway, which is currently working on a new show. In this show, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, with him combines a close professional relationship and responsibility to their daughter Michelle plays. His lover is also a dancer. Gideon is full of professional and personal stress and conflicts with his wives that do not satisfy from his notorious infidelity grown up and feeling. In its day - night dreams of death in him person of the beautiful Angelique appears. Only her he opens up and talks about his past, the meaning of his art and the nonsense of death. The workaholic finally suffers a heart attack. After receiving an anesthetic in hospital it appears to him that he would stage a show in which the women in his life occur. The operation succeeded, but shortly thereafter he gets another heart attack that leads to death.
Background
The film Behind the spotlight is on one hand a film with fascinating choreography of this exceptional artist Bob Fosse, who gives detailed insight into the rehearsals on Broadway, on the other hand, a disturbing self-portrait. Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon is Bob Fosse. Ann Reinking, Fosse's long -term lover, plays Kate Jagger. Fosse himself suffered a heart attack during rehearsals. This experience he worked in this movie. The only difference: he lets his Joe Gideon die. Bob Fosse, however, suffered years later, shortly before the premiere of a Broadway show also his second heart attack, he died in 1987.
Reviews
"Musical about the death of a famous Broadway director and choreographer. Perfectly staged, in parts of intoxicating rhythm and exuberant aesthetic effects: large Hollywood cinema ".
Awards
The film received nine Academy Award nominations and won in 1980 finally four: Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing and Best Music. At the International Film Festival in Cannes in 1980, the film won the Palme d' Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha together with.
He was inducted into the " National Film Registry " at the Library of Congress, 2001.