Friday, April 29, 2011

Watched: All That Jazz

Really interesting musical (sort of) exercise in self-reflexivity. A musical 8 1/2, of sorts (a movie about the director, directing himself), before 9 came along and was a thing that happened. The musical numbers are enjoyable, and woven pretty seamlessly into the storyline. The editing's good too. And of course Roy Scheider is always great, especially here, playing a life-long narcissistic workaholic who has to reconcile himself with not only what an asshole he is but his own death. Some great visual stuff, as well. Not something I would watch again but something I'm glad I watched.






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