Round Midnight R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 22, 2008
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dexter Gordon | |
| Performer: | François Cluzet, Lonette McKee, Martin Scorsese, Herbie Hancock, Philippe Noiret & Alain Sarde | |
| Directed by | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| Screenwriting by | Bertrand Tavernier & David Rayfiel | |
| Composition by | Herbie Hancock | |
| Produced by | Irwin Winkler |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1986 -
Best Original Score: Herbie Hancock
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/4 --
You do not need to know a lot about jazz to appreciate what is going on because, in a certain sense, this movie teaches you everything about jazz that you really need to know.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The director's perenially heavy mood seems especially well suited to this indigo-shaded story of a black American saxman (Dexter Gordon) living and performing in Paris in the late 50s.
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Chicago Reader
...This Oscar-winning ode to the power of jazz gets at the root of the great American art form...
Entertainment Weekly
...Watching Dale and Francis grow close is a subdued experience that evolves in quiet ways...
Los Angeles Times
One of the best jazz films ever made, this succeeds by melding French sensibilities about atmosphere with American sensibilities about the music.
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Film4
Round Midnight is a superbly crafted music world drama in which Gallic director Bertrand Tavernier pays a moving dramatic tribute to the great black musicians who lived and performed in Paris in the late 1950s.
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Variety
Tavernier's striking widescreen frame established the rainy, neon-and-smoke filled world of the jazz film.
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Product Description:
'ROUND MIDNIGHT is the moving story of an expatriate black jazz musician and his struggle to create the bebop sound in 1959 Paris. Dexter Gordon is sensational in the lead role--he earned an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Dale Turner--and Herbie Hancock, who appears in the film, was nominated for his score. Director Bertrand Tavernier beautifully captures the many joys and sorrows that encompass the jazz world.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 129,338
- UPC: 883929003471
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