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Round Midnight

1986, Movie, R, 133 mins

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This might easily be called the best jazz film ever made, and not only because the competition is so weak. The film's quality lies not just in its vivid portrayal of the bebop milieu, but also in its sensitive examination of an artist compelled to create on a nightly basis, despite personal consequences. Jazz great Dexter Gordon stars as Dale Turner, a character who is hailed as "the greatest tenor saxophone player in the world," and loosely based on Gordon himself. Read the complete review for Round Midnight
Bertrand Tavernier's portrait of the friendship between an expatriate American jazz musician and the young Frenchman who idolizes him in the Paris of 1959. Wonderful story matched by its score!
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Bertrand Tavernier's loving ode to jazz and its creators.
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Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Bud Powell, this is the Academy Award-winning story of an American expatriate musician who tries to make order of his life during the great jazz millieu of 1950s Paris. The New York Times commends "its tremendous depth of feeling and lovely, elegiac pace.... [This] is a glowing, masterly tribute." Starring real-life tenor-sax great Dexter Gordon, performing live with some of the world's top jazz musicians on screen and on the Grammy-winning soundtrack, both under the music supervision of Oscar-winning co-star Herbie Hancock. Also starring Lonette McKee ("Jungle Fever," "The Cotton Club") and director Martin Scorsese ("GoodFellas").
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Length: 02:12:00
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Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Bud Powell, this is the Academy Award-winning story of an American expatriate musician who tries to make order of his life during the great jazz millieu of 1950s Paris. The New York Times commends "its tremendous depth of feeling and lovely, elegiac pace.... [This] is a glowing, masterly tribute." Starring real-life tenor-sax great Dexter Gordon, performing live with some of the world's top jazz musicians on screen and on the Grammy-winning soundtrack, both under the music supervision of Oscar-winning co-star Herbie Hancock. Also starring Lonette McKee ("Jungle Fever," "The Cotton Club") and director Martin Scorsese ("GoodFellas").
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Length: 02:12:00
Posted: 9/4/2009
Year: 1986
Rated R

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Cast
Dexter Gordon: Dale Turner
Francois Cluzet: Francis Borier
Gabrielle Haker: Berangere
Sandra Reaves-Phillips: Buttercup
Lonette McKee: Darcey Leigh
Christine Pascal: Sylvie

 

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