Tonight!

At 6:45 & 9:10.

Bob Fosse for the Day

Finally, we have Paula Abdul's music video for "Cold-Hearted Snake". It's a direct homage to a memorable sequence in All That Jazz and was directed by none other than David Fincher.

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here's Liza Minnelli, star of Fosse's Cabaret (a former Metro Classic) performing the song "All That Jazz" from Chicago at a 1988 concert.

Top 5 Top 5 Lists Related To, But Not Including, All That Jazz

Top 5 Bob Fosse-Related Films:

1. Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney, 1953)
2. Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
3. The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (Don Weis, 1953)
4. Lenny (Bob Fosse, 1974)
5. That's Entertainment, Part II (Gene Kelly, 1976)


Top 5 Musicals from the 1970s:

1. Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
2. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
3. New York, New York (Martin Scorsese, 1977)
4. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971)
5. Bound For Glory (Hal Ashby, 1976)


Top 5 Movies about Movie Directors:

1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
2. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
3. White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood, 1990)
4. Passion (Jean-Luc Godard, 1982)
5. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)


Top 5 Movies Featuring Music by Vivaldi:

1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
2. Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988)
3. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
4. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)
5. Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)


Top 5 Films of 1979:
1. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. The Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
4. Alien (Ridley Scott)
5. Nosferatu, The Vampyre (Werner Herzog)

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here's Verdon and Chita Rivera performing a couple of numbers from Chicago on the Mike Douglas show in the 70s. All That Jazz was inspired by Fosse's overwork-inspired heart attack suffered while simultaneously trying to edit his Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny and directing the original stage version of Chicago:

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here's an amazing Fosse performance as The Snake in the 1974 film of The Little Prince, a dance that might seem familiar to Michael Jackson fans. His singing is pretty good too.

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here's Fosse and Verdon on a TV show in the early 60s demonstrating the staging of a "What Lola Wants" from Damn Yankees:

Links: All That Jazz

The Film Experience hosts a lengthy critical appraisal of All That Jazz.

An original review of the film comes from The New York Times.

More recently in the New York Times, Matt Zoller Seitz praises the film.

Bye-bye love.

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here's Fosse singing and dancing in Damn Yankees with Gwen Verdon, his wife for 27 years and the basis for one of the main characters in All That Jazz:

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here he is dancing with Tommy Rall in My Sister Eileen:

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here's the trailer for Give a Girl a Break, which again teams Fosse with Debbie Reynolds, this time with Stanley Donen directing. I haven't seen it, but it looks pretty awesome. The trailers got some nice Fosse acting, and even singing!

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here's Fosse dancing in a former Metro Classic, Kiss Me Kate. He's the one that looks like he was choreographed by Bob Fosse instead of Hermes Pan (Fred Astaire's regular collaborator and the choreographer for the rest of this film). Oh, and it appears to be from a dubbed German TV broadcast.

Bob Fosse for the Day

Here's the director of this week's film, All That Jazz, dancing in The Affairs of Dobie Gillis with Barbara Ruick, Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds.

Coming Attractions: All That Jazz

Wednesday, February 17th at 6:45 and 9:15.

Giveaways: 8 1/2 DVD courtesy of Scarecrow Video and a gift certificate to Cinema Books.

See you there!