How to Watch 'All That Jazz,' the Bob Fosse Movie Featured in the 'Fosse/Verdon' Finale
Bob Fosse famously mined his own experiences for All That Jazz, a movie about a director struggling to juggle a Broadway production and a feature film. Tonight's episode of Fosse/Verdon mines All That Jazz in turn, telling the behind-the-scenes story of the cinematic classic.
So how can Fosse/Verdon fans stream the original movie? Sadly, in an age where nearly everything is just a click away, All That Jazz is the rare exception. Aside from the first five minutes, which can be seen on the Criterion Collection's YouTube channel, All That Jazz is not available to stream.
To get ahold of it, Fosse devotees will have to pony up for the DVD, which is available on Amazon. (A Blu-ray version is also on the market, for a few dollars extra.)
To hear Fosse and Gwen Verdon themselves tell it, though, the film is worth a little analog hassle-if only to get a peek at Fosse's psyche.
"Bob's ideas come from something within him that is not the everyday man," Verdon told the New York Times back in 1979. "The creative person is an absolute monster who tries to destroy Bob Fosse. His face changes. He'd get ropey looking. His eyes sink into his head and it looks like a death mask. I've worked in insane asylums and the inmates don't look as weird as Bob."
Or in Fosse's words, "There are certain people in life who have to risk, and that's what this picture is about."
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