Anyone Else think this film is very Kubrickish with a Fosse twist?
I felt like that if Kubrick made a Musical this would be similar to how it turned out.
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Only a "Fosse twist"?
Nah, it feels like pure Fosse to me, though I will grant that "pure Fosse" has some points of similarity with some of Kubrick's work.
Still, in the body of work that includes Cabaret and Sweet Charity and the original stage version of Chicago and the "floating hands" dance and sexual openness of the original Pippin, etc. ........ I see All That Jazz as fitting right in.
Well I'm more familiar with Kubrick than I am Fosse(in film) so that may be why I feel this way. I definitely see a Fosse story. I meant the directing mostly seemed very Kubrick-like to me.
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Actually the movie comes across as if Fellini made a big musical. Basically the auto-biography nature mixing with real show biz life with a surreal touches is straight out of 8 1/2. (It is OK because Woody Allen and other film-makers did also. All That Jazz is better than Stardust Memories.)
The only Kubrick film that plays similarly to "All That Jazz", at least to me, would be "A Clockwork Orange". What they share in common: roughly similar pacing; vivid colors; an (anti-) hero with great talent and unchecked libido.
Agree on "Clockwork Orange", and also there's a bit of "Barry Lyndon" in there. It feels specifically like a Kubrick 70s film (as you say, the colors, pacing, editing).
Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'
Yes, Fellini used the circus as a metaphor for life. For Fosse the metaphor is the
Broadway musical.