We’re back with an all-new season of Guide for the Film Fanatic! In each episode, Jason Bailey and Mike Hull invite a guest from the world of film (including filmmakers, authors, critics, actors, and more) to select one of the 1600+ “must-see movies” collected in Danny Peary’s seminal 1986 book, Guide for the Film Fanatic. Bailey, Hull, and their guests deep dive on each film, discussing its history, themes, style, performances, initial reception, and legacy, taking a fresh look at some of the most beloved titles in cinema history.

This week, our pal Sean Burns joins us to discuss how a near-death experience left him eager to revisit All That Jazz, Bob Fosse’s 1979 examination of his own flaws, demons, indulgences, and professional grind. Come for the celebration of a New Hollywood classic, stay to watch Rob Marshall catch many, many strays!

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’ve partnered up with One Heat Minute Productions on this show, so we’ve migrated over to their feed; subscribe now if you haven’t already. 

We’re also putting our new episodes up on YouTube! Watch the show on our YouTube channel, @guideforthefilmfanatic, for visual accompaniment and bonus stuff and who knows what else:

All That Jazz is streaming on Tubi and available on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. On the “Double It Up” side, 8 1/2 is streaming on the Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and several ad-supported services; The Limey is on Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla, and several ad-supported services; and STAR 80 is available for digital rental or purchase. 

You can read Vincent Canby’s New York Times review here, the NYT article Jason mentioned on the film’s influence on editors here, the Indiewire ‘70s movie listicle we discussed here, that Paul Newman Washington Post interview from 1981 here, and the Crooked Marquee article by Marshall Shaffer on Fosse and Fincher here. Oh, and here’s Fincher’s All That Jazz-inspired music video for Paula Abdul’s “Cold Hearted Snake”: 

You can get links to all of Sean’s writing at his website, Spliced Personality, and you can subscribe to his Substack here. You can listen to Mike’s new podcast “Whitewashed History” here, and you can also watch his documentary Betrayal at Attica on Tubi and Apple TV+. And Jason’s new book Yippee Ki‐Yay:“Die Hard,” Bruce Willis, and the Reinvention of the Action Movie (out 5/11/27) is now available for preorder from Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Inidigo, or wherever you get your books.

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