'Round Midnight [Criterion Collection]

"In the hushed, spotlit darkness, the smoke from a hundred cigarettes curls and billows around the world-weary old black men as they shuffle on stage to their battered instruments and hunker down for another night's toil at the Blue Note. Sax player Dale Turner is their center. Rumpled as a flop house bed and haggard from years of too much booze, he picks up his axe and after a few tentative puffs, ensnares the listeners in a brooding spell of haunting notes that wind freely around the melo...