Bob Fosse Articles

Martin Balsam, Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express, directed by DGA (but not Oscar) nominee Sidney Lumet DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1960s: Odd Men Out Jules Dassin, Federico Fellini, Arthur Penn 1970 DGA David Lean, Ryan's Daughter Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces AMPAS Federico Fellini, Satyricon Ken Russell, Women in Love DGA/AMPAS Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton Robert Altman, MASH Arthur Hiller, Love [...]

Valerie Perrine, Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse's Lenny LENNY Review Part I Bob Fosse's direction is hardly any help. Throughout much of the film, Fosse's touch is either too heavy or too squeamish. Bruce's private dramas are handled with an overemphasis that turns them into lurid melodrama, while sex scenes and drug-soaked orgies could have been directed with more verve by cloistered nuns. And if [...]

LENNY (1974) Direction: Bob Fosse Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Gary Morton Screenplay: Julian Barry; from his own play Oscar Movies Dustin Hoffman, Lenny Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic Lenny has two chief assets: the still relevant free speech issues it raises and Valerie Perrine's scene-stealing turn as the tragic Honey (Marlowe) Bruce. The film itself is neither riveting nor entertaining; in [...]