All That Jazz

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 by night—and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk. Fosse burrows into Gideon’s (and his own) mind, rendering his interior world as phantasmagoric spectacle. Assembled with visionary editing that makes dance come alive on-screen as never before, and overflowing with sublime footwork by the likes of Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, and Ben Vereen, All That Jazz pushes the musical genre to personal depths and virtuosic aesthetic heights.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• Audio commentary featuring editor Alan Heim

• Selected-scene audio commentary by actor Roy Scheider

• New interviews with Heim and Fosse biographer Sam Wasson

• New conversation between actors Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi

• Episode of the talk show Tomorrow from 1980, featuring director Bob Fosse and choreographer Agnes de Mille

• Interviews with Fosse from 1981 and 1986

• On-set footage

• Portrait of a Choreographer, a 2007 documentary on Fosse

• The Soundtrack: Perverting the Standards, a 2007 documentary about the film’s music

• Interview with George Benson from 2007, about his song “On Broadway,” which opens the film

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by critic Hilton Als
  
  Cover based on a theatrical poster; packaging includes new illustrations by Sean Freeman