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Fame(1981). A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

I enjoyed this so much more than I was expecting to. Yeah, it’s pretty disjointed and frenetic and grittier than it has any right to be, but it really captures both the headrush and the grind of what these kids experience. It’s messy, sure, but it also surprisingly really works. 7.5/10.

All That Jazz (1979). Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

God, the 52nd Academy Awards had a stacked Best Picture category - Kramer vs Kramer, Apocalypse Now, Norma Rae, Breaking Away and this. All that Jazz ultimately lost out to Kramer v Kramer, which is probably understandable, but to me, this really deserved to take it home. It’s rare after all that a movie can feel both this spectacular and this intimate, this personal and yet this accessible.

It just works on every level and I really loved it a lot. 9/10.