The pleasures of being out of step Notes on the life of Nat Hentoff
DVD - 2013
Nat Hentoff is one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and who also led the rise of 'alternative' journalism in America. This unique documentary wraps the themes of liberty, identity and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act.
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- Genres
- Documentary films
Biographical films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[New York] :
First Run Features
c2013.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Originally produced in 2013.
Features conversations with Hentoff, plus additional interviews with Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch, Floyd Abrams, Aryeh Heier, and Dan Morgenstern. Includes music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Bob Dylan, along with never-before-seen photographs and archival footage of these musicians and other cultural figures.
Special features: How Max came to Candid ; Critic to fan ; WWII ; The New Yorker. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo.
- Production Credits
- Photography, Tom Hurwitz ; editors, David L. Lewis, Sam Pollard ; music, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Charles Mingus.
- The Village voice
- The jazz gene
- Liner notes
- Civil liberties
- Club kid
- Down beat
- College lessons
- The most important job
- Bob Dylan
- Hippies, feminists, and queers
- Married life
- Greenwich Village
- Lenny Bruce
- Candid
- We insist!
- Moldy figs
- Malcolm X
- Best jazz magazine ever
- The eighties generation
- The sound of jazz
- Family history
- Abortion
- Mingus music
- End of an era
- Are you still here?