Sunday morning movie review!
Posted on 03/06/2022 8:35:37 AM PST by Rummyfan
When filming wrapped on All That Jazz in March of 1979, director and choreographer Bob Fosse had just over eight years and six months left to live, although he'd thoroughly and pitilessly imagined his death in the movie he'd just finished filming. It would be more or less accurate: a heart attack, albeit on his way to the premiere of a revival of Sweet Charity in Washington, DC and not in a hospital bed while directing his latest Broadway show. With his imagined onscreen death still fresh in everyone's memory, it's doubtful that the end when it came was really a surprise to anyone who knew him.
It certainly couldn't have come as a surprise to Fosse.
There was little reason to imagine that Bob Fosse would become probably the most famous choreographer in the world, even when his career started taking off in the '50s, with work on shows and movies like The Pajama Game, Kiss Me Kate, My Sister Eileen, Damn Yankees, Bells are Ringing, New Girl in Town and Redhead. By the end of the '70s, however, he was probably the face of American dance, after the smash success of his second film (Cabaret), a television special (Liza with a Z) and Broadway shows like Pippin, Chicago and Dancin'. While there are doubtless other choreographers whose lives are interesting enough to deserve movie biographies (George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins, Katherine Dunham) none of them took such an active hand in creating their own mythology while they were still alive.
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Sunday morning movie review!
Fosse would probably be attacked by #metoo if he were still working today.
God help me, I love that movie!
Yes!
LOL, the greatest choreographer of all time was heterosexual.
Bob Fosse vs Michael Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LE_TYTxRxg
I have never seen this movie and now I want to from these responses. It’s not available in Prime Video on Amazon. Only a dvd and I don’t really want a dvd. Darn.
I did see Pippin on Broadway, a matinee but I didn’t really like it. the 70s in NY, especially the mid and after were a real interesting time. Fosse really fit in then.
Should have won best picture Oscar instead of that overacting depressing snoozefest Kramer vs. Kramer. Scheider also got robbed by Hoffman, and Fosse for director. Shows how useless the Oscars always have been.
Kramer vs. Kramer... ugh. Anne Reinking was simply stunning.
They would never allow that movie to be made today. All those sexy long legs.
Emphatically!
I was referring to his policy of not giving the lead to dancers who rebuffed his advances.
“It’s Showtime!”
I liked that movie.
Bob Fosse was an incredibly talented man of many flaws, but doesn’t negate hiss enormous output of creative work. I can spot a Fosse style dance performance a mile away.
No argument, I was simply stating the obvious.
Michael Jackson was heavily influenced by Fosse
Or maybe he copied him...
So what ... that’s his business ... not your5 ...
Lighten up Francis. Today’s political landscape is my business.
But Fosse’s choice of performers is not, and never was ... Spanky ...
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