Round Midnight!!

[Balladeer]

Dex - unforgettable. So many only with cool atitude. He w a s cool.

Wonderful atmosphere, too. The French sure know how to make movies.

Some scenes and moments have remained in my memory since I´ve seen the film a decade ago.

Nevertheless would see this anytime again for a second time.

[ejp626]

I just watched this (in a theatre, no less!) for the first time since 1987.  It wasn't until roughly 45 minutes in that we realized they were running it without subtitles, and it was too late at that point to fix it.  There are probably only 3 or 4 scenes where they really were required, but it was still a bit annoying.

On the one hand, it gets a little old watching his French pal go searching for him after Dex goes on one bender after another.  On the other hand, seeing so many jazz legends captured at or near their prime was amazing.  (I knew that Bobby Hutcherson was in the cast and enjoyed his performance in the club, but didn't realize he was also Ace, who always had a pot of something in his hand.)  Dan Ackroyd said something along the same lines, that even if Blues Brothers didn't succeed as a movie (and I think it certainly did!) they managed to put an awful lot of great musicians on film.

[Chuck Nessa]

Thanks for the reminder - I'll pull the dvd tonight.

[BFrank]

There was an article in the WSJ about the song itself, Monk, and also how many times it's been recorded over the years by so many people.