Movies

March, 1980

Quasi autobiography is the game afoot in a couple of major films, and Bob Fosse's flashy, phantasmagorical All That Jazz depicts his world as one of musical beds (for inside glimpses of both the film and Fosse, see the pictorial on page 174). Visually, the movie's a knockout, and I don't believe it can be entirely coincidental that the cinematographer Fosse chose to use was Giuseppe Rotunno, a longtime associate of Federico Fellini--though Rotunno did not shoot 8-1/2, the masterwork to which All...