We mods are in this subreddit daily and know the users feel like the same movies are talked about way too often. The most popular movies on Reddit are certainly some great ones, but every week we're going to recommend what we think are good movies and aren't discussed much in this subreddit. These recommendations aren't all pretentious film school meditations on human verisimilitude, we swear they're watchable :)January 9, 2021 is All That Jazz - 1979.Earlier today I saw a Reddit post related to the oft-repeated question about how bad movies get made - like why can't they tell the script is bad? All That Jazz is probably the opposite to that question. I can't imagine the pitch meeting, it must've been bonkers. Bob Fosse, a very famous musical choreographer in New York City and Oscar-winning director of Cabaret, wanted to write and direct an autobiographical movie that included an entire subplot of Fosse hanging out in the palace of his own mind. On paper it looks nuts, but they trusted in Fosse to somehow make it all work, and sweet lord horus he did. After Stanley Kubrick saw All That Jazz in 1979 he reportedly called it the best movie he'd ever seen. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.As for trailers, eeesh. This is probably the best because all of the official trailers make it look like it's a musical. While it has musical numbers performed in the movie on stage diegetically, it's not like Moulin Rouge or Chicago. They don't sing dialogue to each other.This is the first 6 minutes of the movie. That YouTube clip is abruptly cut though, the opening is about a 10 minute montage of the Broadway audition/hiring process, then we get into the story.The movie is absolutely manic and amazing. I don't want to say anything about the plot because half the fun is just being surprised, imo, but the movie goes a lot of places emotionally and even gives you some insight into what it was like when Fosse was editing the Lenny Bruce movie Lenny.As for where you can watch it online, I admit I didn't check before writing this all out and.... no idea. You can pretend it's about 2013 and you're still renting BluRays through the mail here, or you can buy it off Amazon, or... concentrate really hard and wish it to manifest. Easily one of the most frustrating things in the information age is to have money and want to buy something but it's unavailable easily. I don't even see it on the damn Criterion Channel. If anyone does find it somewhere legally, please let me know.Backstory for an element in the movie: the movie that is being edited by the main guy, Joe Gideon, in the storyline of All That Jazz is based on Lenny, the movie about Lenny Bruce that Fosse directed a few years prior. A lot of you saw The Trial of the Chicago 7 and saw Sasha Baron Cohen play Abbie Hoffman doing comedy in small clubs. The comedy was basically a sort of fireside chat with these politically motivate comedians, not so much rehearsed material. Lenny Bruce was a legend of that kind of thing, predating Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, and even George Carlin.Please use spoiler tags in the discussion below, as this is a recommendation thread for people who haven't seen the movie yet. If you have a suggestion for a future recommendation, please post here with it!The MovieModsRecommend Archive via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3bq4tsb
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