Director · Screenwriter · Actor · 1927–1987

Bob Fosse

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13:00: average
26 min: in total

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All That Jazz

Bob Fosse · 1979

Bob Fosse’s 1979 semi-autobiographical musical follows Joe Gideon—a director and editor burning himself out across Broadway and Hollywood—as his body fails. Using dance, dream logic, and clinical realism, it maps the collision of creative obsession and physical collapse. Roy Scheider stars; Giuseppe Rotunno shoots; Alan Heim edits; Ralph Burns scores. It won four Oscars and the Palme d’Or, and remains a benchmark for formal audacity in American cinema.

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Lenny

Bob Fosse · 1974

Bob Fosse’s 1974 biographical drama follows Lenny Bruce across fractured timelines — nightclub triumphs, obscenity trials, domestic fraying — using tight framing, jarring edits, and Dustin Hoffman’s physically exacting performance to render comedy as forensic speech. Adapted from Julian Barry’s play, it avoids explanation in favour of accumulation: of legal pressure, vocal fatigue, and linguistic risk. Its black-and-white austerity refuses nostalgia, its structure refuses closure.