All That Jazz - Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse turns the camera on himself in All That Jazz, a nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. Roy Scheider steps into Gideon's dancing pumps and supplies a plausible sketch of an extravagant, self-destructive, self-loathing ...
A fabulous hard hitting tale of an amiable drifter's meteoric rise in the world of television and the corrupting effect it has on him as a person. Terrific performances and skillfull direction make this as enthralling today as it was on its release fifty odd years ago.