WDCB Encore Film Series - Round Midnight
Schedule
Fri Jan 30 2026 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
College of DuPage | Glen Ellyn, IL
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We kicked off our Encore Film Series about ten years ago with “Round Midnight” and we’re looking forward to presenting it for you again.Round Midnight is a 1986 American-French musical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and David Rayfiel. It stars Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet and Herbie Hancock. Martin Scorsese, Philippe Noiret and Wayne Shorter appear in cameos.
The protagonist jazzman, "Dale Turner", was 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" is based. The film is a wistful and tragic portrait that captures the Paris jazz scene of the 1950s.
Gordon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 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 Music, Original Score. The soundtrack was released in two parts: Round Midnight and The Other Side of Round Midnight.
*** NOTE: This event is free for current Encore Club donors, as well as current WDCB contributors, as long as you reserve your tickets in advance. To reserve your pair of tickets, please follow the instructions that were emailed to you. If you are unsure of your current WDCB contribution status, give us a call or send an email to [email protected].
Date: Fri. January 30 at 8pm
Venue: College of DuPage's SRC 2000
Details: WDCB.org or (630) 942-4200
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