DIRECTOR: Bob Fosse
PRODUCER: Robert Alan Authur
PRODUCTION CO: Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox
SCREENPLAY: Robert Alan Authur, Bob Fosse
PHOTOGRAPHY: Giuseppe Rotunno
EDITOR: Alan Heim
MUSIC: Ralph Burns
WITH: Roy Scheider (Joe Gideon), Jessica Lange (Angelique), Ann Reinking (Kate Jagger), Leland Palmer (Audrey Paris), Cliff Gorman (Davis Newman), Ben Vereen (O'Connor Flood)

FESTIVALS: Cannes

REVIEWS

“‘It’s showtime, folks!’ That’s the refrain of anxiety-ridden and unhealthily driven choreographer and stage director Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) at the center of Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical musical extravaganza, which also features star turns by the likes of Ann Reinking (playing a version of herself), Ben Vereen, and Jessica Lange. Scheider is never less than captivating in his portrayal of Gideon, a complicated figure not so secretly patterned after Fosse himself, as he navigates a frenetic array of personal and professional commitments and the lingering specter of his own mortality. Reportedly called ‘[the] best film that I think I have ever seen’ by Stanley Kubrick at the time of its release, the Palme d’Or- and Oscar-winning tour de force remained the last live-action musical to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture until 2002’s Moulin Rouge!”

– Film at Lincoln Center

“Blending Broadway and filmmaking razzle-dazzle with American New Wave grit, and incorporating nonlinear editing techniques that had begun in early 20th century experimental cinema and blossomed in mid-century art house classics like Hiroshima, Mon Amour, this is one of the most aesthetically sophisticated, morally complex, and sheerly pleasurable films ever made.”

– Matt Zoeller Seitz

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Wellington    
Monday, 24 February, 6.15pm

​Wellington    
Monday, 24 February, 8.30pm

Auckland
Monday, 10 March, 6.00pm – early start
This screening is open to the public, all tickets $15 (AFS members free). Tickets and memberships on sale now at Academy Cinemas

Bigger Picture Ōamaru
Thursday, 20 March, 7.00pm

Whanganui    
Monday, 07 April, 7.00pm

Tauranga   
Wednesday, 30 April, 6.00pm

Hamilton     
Monday, 26 May, 6.30pm

​​Nelson  
Wednesday, 18 June, 6.00pm

Dunedin     
Wednesday, 02 July, 7.30pm

​Canterbury  
Monday, 14 July, 7.00pm

New Plymouth  
Wednesday, 23 July, 6.00pm

Timaru  
Tuesday,12 August, 6.00pm

Queenstown  
Tuesday, 02 September, 8.00pm

Palmerston North  
Wednesday, 26 November, 6.00pm

Carterton  
Friday, 12 December, 7.00pm
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