Filmspotting Presents: The Film That Blew My Mind - Kirsten Johnson on All That Jazz

Filmspotting

Telegraph Road Productions

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Director and legendary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson is known for nonfiction work that is inventive, artful, expressive, and maximal. The same can be said of the film that blew her mind -- Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz. The semi-autobiographical film brings us Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a peripatetic creative force working simultaneously to mount a major Broadway production and complete post-production on a feature film, all while maintaining a lifestyle fueled by cigarettes, pills, one-night stands, and Visine, and still finding time for his adoring 12-year old daughter, Michelle. We learn why the iconic film first transfixed Kirsten, and how she continues to be inspired by Fosse’s ingenious use of dance, documentary, theater, music, and more. Host John Cooper shares his personal ties to the film, calling on his days in New York’s theater scene of the 1970s. And co-host Tabitha Jackson (a.k.a. Wife of Kirsten) does her level best to maintain her professional distance as the conversation unfolds. Listen and subscribe to The Film that Blew My Mind on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're offering you something a little bit different today an episode from our friends at the film that blew my mind.
0:06.0	This one Josh features a favorite of ours cinematographer, director Kirsten Johnson talking about no big deal just one of my favorite
0:15.0	films of all time it is I think still sitting is one of my four favorites over
0:18.8	on Letterboxed Bob Fosies all that. These are the kind of filmmaker interviews.
0:24.4	I really love Adam, is hearing them talk about favorite movies
0:28.6	that they have.
0:29.5	And would I have guessed this?
0:31.3	No, that the director of camera person, Dick Johnson is dead, these
0:36.3	brilliant inventive, creative documentaries that she loves all that jazz? No, wouldn't have guessed that.
0:42.9	And so I was so eager to find out
0:45.2	what she loved about it, and it was a great conversation.
0:48.1	If you want to hear more freewheeling explorations of films,
0:51.4	you know, and maybe films, you don't, that could blow your mind.
0:54.4	Make sure to search for the film that blew my mind
0:56.9	wherever you listen to film spotting and tune in.
1:00.1	They've covered everything from Molly Shannon on The Wizard of Oz to John Ham on Cinema,
1:05.5	Paradiso. Each episode of the film that blew my mind explores a movie that has shaped
1:10.8	one of the most dynamic artists working today.
1:13.2	Enjoy the episode and subscribe to the show.
1:15.9	A sought after cinematographer working with documentary directors like Laura Poitress and Michael Moore.
1:25.0	The curious and compassionate camera work of today's guests can be seen in films like The
1:30.0	Oath, Fahrenheit, 9-11, and Citizen Four.
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