BOB FOSSE: the films

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I know the first half of “Take Off With Us” is meant to be saccharine and corny but, damn, it really works in spite of itself

50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Monday, 18 September 2023 00:42 (seven months ago) link

It does. It was an ears-pricking-up moment in the film

Dan S, Monday, 18 September 2023 00:45 (seven months ago) link

The scene where his girlfriend and daughter perform choreography stood out for me

― Deflatormouse, Sunday, September 17, 2023

It was really nice, maybe the single most happy scene

Dan S, Monday, 18 September 2023 00:49 (seven months ago) link

I had to watch "Take Off With Us" both parts multiple times. There was so much going on in those scenes

Dan S, Monday, 18 September 2023 01:08 (seven months ago) link

Yeah i had the same instinct after seeing the film for the first time, cued Take off with us on Youtube right away

Deflatormouse, Monday, 18 September 2023 01:15 (seven months ago) link

Fosse seems like the progenitor of all of the short-cut clips so prevalent in videos and movies in the last 30 years, which have chopped dance sequences up so you can't really see anything. He did it really well, but it has become ubiquitous and degraded since then

Dan S, Monday, 18 September 2023 01:35 (seven months ago) link

FYI, It's been available on Tubi to stream

jbn, Monday, 18 September 2023 14:26 (seven months ago) link

...and there's a loaded Criterion DVD/BluRay that's been available for almost 10 years.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 September 2023 17:21 (seven months ago) link

Fosse was in The Little Prince!

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 September 2023 17:23 (seven months ago) link

Just was looking at the DVD Beaver comparison page for ATJ, this is framegrab from one of the featurettes from Fox's special edition DVD that was ported over to the Criterion:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/dvdreviews28/a%20all%20that%20jazz%20bob%20fosse/menu%20new%20%20%20ALL_THAT_JAZZ-7.jpg

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 September 2023 17:29 (seven months ago) link


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