A searingly personal work, All That Jazz is an autobiographical musical about the beautiful nightmare of showbusiness from the legendary Bob Fosse (Cabaret). Director/choreographer Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is a man in turmoil: at the top of his game, but so focused on work that his personal life and his health are falling apart. Trying to juggle the staging of a new Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood feature film (which he also directed), the obsessive creative props himself up by drinking, popping Dexys, chain smoking and attempting sexual liaisons with every adult woman he meets. As his body begins to give way and his career crumbles, Gideon looks back on the choices and mistakes he's made in pursuit of greatness.

Based on his own experience of compulsive overwork and substance abuse, Fosse's own near-death experience while editing his film Lenny and choreographing the stage musical Chicago inspired him to mine his existential dread for nuggets of entertainment gold- and the result is a dazzling musical drama. Rueful, acerbic inside jokes about the love/hate relationship creators have to their work easily transform into moments of genuine pathos, largely thanks to a Roy Scheider performance of incredible weight and intensity. A truly singular work that lays bare its creators' deepest fears and failings, Stanley Kubrick called All The Jazz “the best movie I think I've ever seen”.