My 150 Favorite Movies - #47

All That Jazz (1979)

Roy Scheider shows off his song-and-dance chops, in this thinly disguised autobiographical account of director and choreographer Bob Fosse, here called Joe Gideon. Gideon's entire life as visualized by director Fosse, is one long bout of self-destruction, set to music, basically. Absolutely riveting, this film is both visually and aurally entertaining, dramatic and engrossing. Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, it won four Academy Awards, and also won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.