| Round Midnight | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Roundmidnightposter.jpg) Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney | |
| Directed by | Bertrand Tavernier |
| Screenplay by | David Rayfiel Bertrand Tavernier Colo Tavernier (French language translation) |
| Based on | Dance of the Infidels by Francis Paudras |
| Produced by | Irwin Winkler |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Bruno de Keyzer |
| Edited by | Armand Psenny |
| Music by | Herbie Hancock |
Production companies | Little Bear PECF |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release dates |
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Running time | 133 minutes |
| Countries | United States France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million[1] |
| Box office | $10 million[2] |
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.
The protagonist jazzman, Dale Turner, is based on a composite of real-life jazz legends Lester Young (tenor sax) and Bud Powell (piano). While the film is fictionalized, it is drawn directly from the memoir/biography Dance of the Infidels written by French author Francis Paudras, who had befriended Powell during his Paris expatriate days and on whom the character Francis was based.[3][4]
Gordon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Grammy for the film's soundtrack entitled The Other Side of Round Midnight in the category for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Soloist. Hancock won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack was released in two parts: Round Midnight and The Other Side of Round Midnight.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog".
- ^ "Autour de minuit (Round Midnight) (1986)". JP Box-Office.
- ^ Koenigsberg, Larry (March 8, 2004). "Book Review | Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell". All About Jazz. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
- ^ Ratliff, Ben (December 17, 1997). "Francis Paudras, 62, Patron Of Jazz Pianist Bud Powell". The New York Times. Retrieved April 18, 2014.