The Pleasures of Being Out of Step (2013)

Pleasures profiles legendary jazz critic and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff whose pioneering career tracks the greatest cultural and political movements of the last 65 years The film is about an idea as well as a man the idea of free expression as the defining characteristic of the individual Hentoff is a pioneering journalist who raised jazz as an art form and was present at the creation of alternative journalism Pleasures wraps the themes of liberty and identity around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act With a mix of interviews archival footage and music it employs a complex nonlinear structure to engage the audience in a life of independent ideas and the creation of an enduring voice