‘Round Midnight
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!
Screening introduced by Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III
Director: Bertrand Tavernier Run Time: 133 min. Format: 35mm Rating: R Release Year: 1986
Starring: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazz man coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a burst of genius in director Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midight, starring bebop legend Dexter Gordon.
NOTE: Director Bertrand Tavernier was originally scheduled for a post-screening Q&A, but has unfortunately had to cancel.
The film will be introduced by Dexter Gordon’s step-son and director of The Dexter Gordon Society, Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III.
Presented in partnership with UniFrance with the help of Sandrine Neveux from Novel Ciné.
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