Rogue Hollywood: All That Jazz
Cultplex50 Red Bank
Sat 19 Sept · 16:00
About this event
Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour: a Watershed project in association with Wiper & True and collaboration with principal sponsors Park Circus and StudioCanal. With support from BFI Audience Projects Fund awarding National Lottery funding. The films in this season, far from the liberal consensus often associated with Hollywood of the period, are darkly difficult in terms of subject matter and provocative in their politically contradictory nature. Bleak, unsettling but endlessly rewarding, these films are testament to a period when some in the Hollywood mainstream went very rogue. They provide a fascinating snapshot of America which resonates today. Curated by CULTPLEX, Ellen Smith (freelance film programmer and Projectionist at HOME) and Andy Willis (Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME). Witness the dramatic side of dance with Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, a semi-autobiographical musical drama that blurs the line between reality and fantasy in a dazzling, feverish spectacle! The film follows Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a brilliant yet self-destructive Broadway director and choreographer, as he juggles his demanding career, multiple relationships, and an increasing dependence on drugs and alcohol. As he edits his latest film by day and rehearses a new stage production by night, his health deteriorates, leading him into a surreal, hallucinatory journey where he confronts his own mortality. Blending dynamic musical sequences with raw emotional depth, All That Jazz earned critical acclaim, winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes and four Academy Awards and cementing Fosse’s legacy as a master of both cinema and stage storytelling. All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above. Content warnings: heavy substance use, explicit sexuality, and graphic medical imagery Check out the HOME programme for Rogue Hollywood here. Runtime: 123 minutes Director: Bob Fosse Country: USA Year: 1979 Film
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