All That Jazz (1980 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)
The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1980 features the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz. Directed and co-written by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Jessica Lange, Erzsébet Földi and Cliff Gorman, All That Jazz shared the Palme d’Or with Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/20/archives/the-screen-roy-scheider-stars-in-all-that-jazzpeter-pan-syndrome.html), Variety, and Gary Arnold in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/02/15/mostly-fosse-and-feathers/337c958e-13ce-4fc2-b327-fca2463abe29/).
Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1980 installment, featuring our documentary pick, Les Blank’s Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers.
