The Pleasures of Being/ Out of Step: Notes on the Life of/ Nat Hentoff (2013): Cast

This profile examines the remarkable life and career of jazz critic and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff, charting his journey through significant cultural and political shifts over six decades. The film explores the importance of free expression and its role in shaping individual identity, highlighting Hentoff’s influence on jazz as an art form and the rise of alternative journalism. Combining interviews, archival materials, and music, it presents a non-linear narrative that reveals the life and enduring voice of this independent thinker, from the Great Depression through to the Patriot Act.

• DL Director David L. Lewis

• NH Nat Hentoff as themselves

• The Pleasures of Being Out of Step 2014 · Metascore 68