This was really something else. I’m so glad that I watched FOSSE/VERDON before ever seeing this — it gives so much context to Bob Fosse’s life, which is brutally and honestly on display here. It’s also shocking that Fosse predicted his own death. It happens almost exactly here as it does in real life. It goes to show that Fosse really knew who he was. Without him this movie would be nothing. The editing is out of this world. The dance between Katie and Michelle is so well done, adorable, and awe inspiring. There’s a reason he cries at it. I never knew Roy Schneider had so much song and dance in him. He’s so good that you forget it is Roy and not Joe Gideon at times. It was also interesting to see John Lithgow, Wallace Shawn, and C.C.H. Pounder in small roles here. I also loved Tito Goya as the orderly who talks with him at the end of the film. I looked him up and found out he was arrested for murder after this — so I guess that I won’t see him in anything else. I loved the idea of Jessica Lange as the angel of death. I feel like this is where Tarantino got the idea for Val Kilmer’s role in TRUE ROMANCE.
