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Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going. (R, 123 min.)
7:00 PM
Essential Arthouse 2026
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. [Criterion]
Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen
Director: Bob Fosse
Genres: Drama, Music, Musical
"This is one of the greatest American films ever made."
— Grant Watson, Fiction Machine
"Savagely witty on backstage life and audaciously edited."
— Kim Newman, Empire Magazine
"All That Jazz may be Fosse’s finest cinematic achievement."
— Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine
"An uproarious display of brilliance, nerve, dance, maudlin confessions, inside jokes and, especially, ego."
— Vincent Canby, The New York Times
"Even thinking about it still brings tears to my eyes. That, that is what I’m seeking when I go to the movies. All that jazz."
— Kathleen Sachs, Chicago Reader
"It's a film that takes chances, an exciting rollercoaster ride that deserves its personal chapter in the art of film-making."
— Leonard Klady, Winnipeg Free Press
"Savagely witty on backstage life and audaciously edited, Jazz stands alongside Cabaret as the best musical of the last 20 years."
— Kim Newman, Empire
"A tour de force self-portrait by the brilliant writer-director-choreographer Bob Fosse, as seamlessly impersonated in a career-peak turn from Roy Scheider."
— David Lamble, Bay Area Reporter
"The dancing is frenzied, the dialogue piercing, the photography superb, and the acting first-rate, with non-showman Scheider an illustrious example of casting against type."
— Staff, TV Guide
"Fosse spins his runaway narcissism into self-effacing humor and filters the darkest themes through electrifying song-and-dance numbers. The musical sequences are a lesson in choreography, not just for Fosse's renowned wit and invention in handling his dancers, but also in the editing, which fuses music and movement in perfectly timed cuts."
— Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
"An actor of great integrity, Scheider at last makes the powerful impression we've been waiting for; he plays Joe with wonderfully delicate and telling detail. You see all the lusts and weaknesses, but you see also an underlying sweetness, a kind of forlorn and desperate innocence that makes something deeply human out of good, bad, weakness, strength, triumph, defeat and all that jazz."
— Staff, Newsweek
