Sunny's Time Now
Sunny's Time Now
4.5 Sunny's Time Now
2008, 1 h 48 m
Music, Documentary
Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as historic and contemporary concert footage, it reassesses the relationship between the libertarian music movement and the political events of the 1960s, whose social claims it so intimately reflected. By doing so, it also recounts how the most radical forms of musical expression were excluded from the major production and distribution networks as the libertarian ideal went out of fashion. Beyond its historical approach, the film follows Sunny Murray on current gigs, showing his daily struggle to perpetuate a musical genre which is still widely ignored by the general public. In doing so, Sunny's time now also dwells on the near-clandestine community of aficionados who continue to worship the gods of their musical coming of age, and whose unfaltering support has permitted free ...
Recommendations
Qwerty
Animation, Drama, Family
5.9
A Couple of Regular Fellas 2
6.3
Resident Evil: Extinction
Horror, Action, Science Fiction
6.3
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Fantasy, Action, Thriller
6.5
Red Cliff II
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
7.3
Brick Mansions
Action, Crime, Drama
5.9
Hey Qween - Holigay Special
5.4
The Volcano
Comedy
5.6
Qwerty
Thriller
5.7
The Hangover Part III
Comedy
6.2
Attack on Titan II: End of the World
Horror, Science Fiction, Action
6.1
Do Re Mi
Comedy
7.0
Jackass Number Two
Action, Comedy, Documentary
6.6
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
Fantasy, Action, Adventure
4.7
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Science Fiction, Action, Family, Horror
6.8
Muppets Most Wanted
Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Family
6.3
Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire
Family, Animation, Mystery, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
7.7
Home Makeover
Animation, Family, Comedy
6.8
Ultimate Avengers 2
Adventure, Animation, Action, Science Fiction
6.8
What's New, Scooby-Doo? Vol. 1: Space Ape at the Cape
Animation, Comedy, Family, Mystery
9.9
Similar
Duende: Joëlle Léandre solo
Music
0.0
Angel Bat Dawid - Ground Control
Music
0.0
Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann
Documentary
5.0
Wealth of a Nation
Documentary
0.0
Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center
Music, Documentary
0.0
Ornette: Made in America
Documentary, Music
6.3
Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969
Music
10.0
You See What I’m Trying To Say?
Music
0.0
Thick Air
Documentary, Music
6.8
Streetlight Opus
Music, Drama
0.0
The Cry of Jazz
Documentary, Music
5.9
Fire Music
Documentary, Music
7.0
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Documentary, Music
0.0
City of the Winds
Documentary, Music
0.0
J.D. Allen Live
Music
7.0
Sonny Sharrock Band - Lucerna Hall Prague 4.10.90
Music
0.0
AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg)
Documentary, Music
0.0
Opening of the Kiel Canal
Documentary
3.0
Nightmare in Canada: Canadian Horror on Film
Documentary
5.7
Iron Maiden - Porto Alegre, Brazil
Music
0.0