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(aka "Round Midnight")
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
USA /
France 1986
’Round Midnight 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 the 1950s, Dale Turner (Dexter Gordon), a gifted black saxophonist with a drinking problem, leaves behind New York and his estranged family and relocates to Paris. There he plays for a progressive, jazz-loving audience without being judged by his race, and ages quietly in peace. Not intending to turn away from his vices, Dale nonetheless becomes the project of a French fan (François Cluzet) who tries to help him fight his alcoholism, ultimately inspiring both Dale and his music. |
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Theatrical Release: September 12th, 1986 (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Review: Criterion - Region 'A' / 'B' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Criterion Spine #1122 - Region 'A' / 'B' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 2:11:34.386 | |
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2.39 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 49,886,595,021 bytesFeature: 36,380,633,088 bytes Video Bitrate: 28.83 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio English 2024 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2024 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
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Subtitles | English (SDH), English translation, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Criterion
2.39 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 49,886,595,021 bytesFeature: 36,380,633,088 bytes Video Bitrate: 28.83 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details:
• Documentary featuring outtakes and behind the scenes footage(52:32)
Transparent Blu-ray Case Chapters 15 |
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On their
Blu-ray,
Criterion offer DTS-HD Master stereo or 5.1 surround tracks (24-bit) in the
original English, and some French languages. 'Round Midnight
is all about the music with the separation of the surround showing up in
live performances. It has a score credited to Herbie Hancock (A
Soldier's Story,
Death
Wish,
Blow-Up)
who is also in the film as Eddie Wayne. Of course the film is filled
with jazz including 'Round Midnight written by Thelonious Monk,
Cootie Williams + Bernard Hanighen and performed by Bobby McFerrin, plus
Herman Hupfeld's As Time Goes By, Dexter Gordon's Society Red,
Chet Baker's Fairweather, Charlie Parker's Now's The Time,
Vernon Duke's Autumn in New York, standards Body and Soul,
It's Only A Paper Moon, Gershwin's How Long Has This Been
Going On?, Cole Porter's I Love Paris + What Is This Thing
Called Love? and many others. It sounds wonderful in the lossless.
If you appreciate the music I can recommend Dexter Gordon's soundtrack
released in two parts:
Round Midnight
and The Other Side
of Round Midnight. Criterion offer optional English
subtitles, and optional English translations of the French, on their
Region 'A' / 'B'
Blu-ray.
The Criterion
Blu-ray
Bertrand Tavernier's 'Round Midnight
follows tenor saxophonist 'Dale Gordon', played by Dexter Gordon, and is
loosely based on a mixture of real-life jazz legends Lester Young (tenor
sax) and pianist Bud Powell focusing on the Paris jazz scene of the
1950s. Dale's adventures in Paris break his alcohol and substance abuse
addictions but he eventually decides to return home to New York. Martin
Scorsese is in 'Round Midnight
briefly. It's iconic jazz-infused cinema that is totally deserved of a Criterion Blu-ray
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