| Edition |
Two-DVD special edition. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert. |
| Physical Medium |
DVD video 4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
digital optical rda |
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digital optical surround Dolby Digital 3.0 rda |
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laser optical NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video region 1 rda |
| Series |
The Criterion Collection ; 724 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 724.
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| System Details |
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 3.0 surround sound. |
| Note |
Title from web page. |
| Cast |
Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet Foldi, Michael Tolan, Max Wright, William LeMassena, Chris Chase, Debroah Geffner, Kathryn Doby, Anthony Holland, Robert Hitt, David Margulies, Sue Paul, Keith Gordon, Frankie Man, Alan Heim, John Lithgow ; principal dancers, Sandahl Bergman, Eileen Casey, Bruce Davis, Gary Flannery, Jennifer Nairn-Smith, Danny Ruvolo, Leland Schwantes, John Sowinski, Candace Tovar, Rima Vetter. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; editor, Alan Heim ; production designer, Philip Rosenberg ; costume designer, Albert Wolsky ; music arranged and conducted by Ralph Burns ; choreography by Bob Fosse ; musical coordinator, Stanley Lebowsky. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. |
| Audience |
Rating: R. |
| Summary |
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk. |
| Note |
Special features: Disc 1. New 4K digital restoration; Commentary (by editor Alan Heim); Selected-scene commentary (by actor Roy Scheider); Reinking and Foldi (new conversation between actors Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi, discuss the pas de deux scene, the film, and the director); Trailer. Disc 2: Tomorrow (Bob Fosse and Agnes de Mille appear on an episode of Tom Snyder's late-night talk show Tomorrow, originally aired 1:00 a.m. on January 31, 1980); Alan Heim (the film editor discusses the process of coming up with the film's editing style); Sam Wasson (author of the biography Fosse, discusses the motivations, self-doubts, and compulsions that drove Bob Fosse to create); The South Bank Show (hosted by Melvyn Bragg, features an extensive interview with Bob Fosse, originally aired March 8, 1981); Gene Shalit interview with Bob Fosse (film and television critic Gene Shalit interviews the director in 1986); On the set: Fosse directing, Scheider interview (footage of Bob Fosse directing the cattle call sequence and a brief interview with actor Roy Scheider); Portrait of a choreographer (2007 documentary on Bob Fosse's choreography style, features interviews with various collaborators and admirers, including Liza Minnelli, dancer Sandahl Bergman, choreographer and filmmaker Rob Marshall, editor Alan Heim, and others); The soundtrack : perverting the standards (a 2007 documentary about the film's music, features interviews with composers Glen Ballard, Jerry Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Diane Warren as well as Liza Minnelli and Alan Heim); The making of the song "On Broadway" (2007 interview with singer-songwriter George Benson about the creation of his hit 1963 song). Insert features an essay by critic Hilton Als. |
| Subject |
Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987 -- Drama.
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Dance -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.
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Choreographers -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.
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Stress (Psychology) -- Drama.
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Death instinct -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Musical films.
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Biographical films.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987, film director, screenwriter.
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Aurthur, Robert Alan, 1922-1978, screenwriter, film producer.
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Melnick, Daniel, 1932-2009, film producer.
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Scheider, Roy, actor.
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Lange, Jessica, actor.
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Reinking, Ann, actor.
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Palmer, Leland, actor.
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Gorman, Cliff, actor.
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Vereen, Ben, actor.
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Foldi, Erzsebet, actor.
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Tolan, Michael, 1925-2011, actor.
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Wright, Max, 1943- actor.
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LeMassena, William, 1916-1993, actor.
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Chase, Chris, actor.
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Geffner, Deborah, actor.
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Doby, Kathryn, actor.
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Holland, Anthony, 1928-1988, actor.
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Hitt, Robert, 1942- actor.
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Margulies, David, actor.
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Paul, Sue (Actress)
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Gordon, Keith, 1961- actor.
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Man, Frankie, actor.
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Lithgow, John, 1945- actor.
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Rotunno, Giuseppe, director of photography.
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Heim, Alan, actor, editor of moving image work.
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Rosenberg, Philip, 1935- production designer.
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Wolsky, Albert, costume designer.
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Burns, Ralph, arranger of music, conductor.
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Lebowsky, Stanley, musical director.
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De Mille, Agnes, interviewee (expression)
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Snyder, Tom, 1936-2007, interviewer (expression)
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Wasson, Sam, interviewee (expression)
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Bragg, Melvyn, 1939- interviewer (expression)
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Shalit, Gene, 1936- interviewer (expression)
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Minnelli, Liza, interviewee (expression)
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Bergman, Sandahl, interviewee (expression)
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Marshall, Rob, interviewee (expression)
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Ballard, Glen, interviewee (expression)
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Casale, Gerald V., interviewee (expression)
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Mothersbaugh, Mark, interviewee (expression)
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Warren, Diane, interviewee (expression)
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Benson, George, 1943- interviewee (expression)
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Als, Hilton, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, production company.
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Columbia Pictures, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781604658798 |
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1604658797 |
| Standard No. |
715515124614 |
| Music No. |
CC2389D The Criterion Collection |
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CC2389D-1 The Criterion Collection (disc 1) |
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CC2389D-2 The Criterion Collection (disc 2) |
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