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Round Midnight is a 1986 American musical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and David Rayfiel. It stars Dexter Gordon, with a soundtrack by Herbie Hancock. The title comes from Thelonious Monk 's 1943 composition 'Round Midnight, which is featured in this film in a Hancock arrangement.
- $10 million
- Herbie Hancock
- $3 million
- Irwin Winkler
Oct 3, 1986 · 'Round Midnight: Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. With Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips. A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
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- Drama, Music
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1986-10-03
’Round Midnight is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a sui generis, Oscar-nominated fusion of performer and character, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz ...
- Dale Turner
Feb 15, 2024 · The writing credits for the French director Bertrand Tavernier’s 1986 jazz drama, “ ’Round Midnight,” about a saxophonist who moves from New York to Paris in 1959, go to Tavernier and to...
The director, Bertrand Tavernier, has said that in earlier jazz films, the audience could sense that the actors were not really playing; that you could see in their eyes that they were not listening to the other musicians onstage with them.
Apr 7, 2021 · By Howard Fishman. April 7, 2021. Jazz musicians play a club, in a scene from “ ’Round Midnight.” Photograph from Warner Bros. / Photofest. The jazz world owes a debt of gratitude to the...
Jul 27, 2022 · Tavernier, who recently passed away in 2021, was a director who cut his teeth alongside the icons of the French New Wave, initially invoking the path of Claude Chabrol with his early mystery thrillers before exploring more dramatic, social issue narratives in the 1980s.
