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'Round midnight (Motion picture)

'Round midnight / Little Bear ; written by David Rayfiel, Bertrand Tavernier, Colo Tavernier ; directed by Bertrand Tavernier.

DVD edition.

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]

2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

It is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character that was nominated for an Oscar, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching for a fresh start in Paris, Turner strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling single father and ardent jazz fan who finds his life transformed as he attempts to help the self-destructive musician. Herbie Hancock's evocative, Oscar-winning score sets the mood for this definitive jazz film, a bittersweet opus that glows with a lived-in, soulful authenticity.

Rating: R.

Criterion collection ; 1122

Criterion collection ; 1122.

Jazz musicians -- Drama.

Jazz -- Drama.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Fiction films.

Historical films.

Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990, actor.

Cluzet, François, actor.

Hancock, Herbie, 1940- actor.

Rayfiel, David, screenwriter.

Tavernier, Bertrand, screenwriter, director.

Tavernier, Colo, screenwriter.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Little Bear Production, production company.

Around midnight

Title from disc label.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.

Wide screen (2.39:1).

Special features: New interview with Gary Giddins; new conversation with Michael Cuscuna and Maxine Gordon; Before Midnight, a 1986 behind-the-scenes documentary; panel discussion from 1969 of "Fried Bananas" by Dexter Gordon; essay by Mark Anthony Neal

Dexter Gordon, Francois Cluzet, Herbie Hancock.

DVD, wide screen.

English or French dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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