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  • 2012
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  • Milestone Film & Video
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2012
  • Unrated
  • Milestone Film & Video
  • 1 h 25 m
Ornette: Made in America (1985)

Summary Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette’s evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes, and some of the first music video-style segments ever made, chronicle his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cu...

Directed By: Shirley Clarke

  • 2012
  • Unrated
  • Milestone Film & Video
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2012
  • Unrated
  • Milestone Film & Video
  • 1 h 25 m

Ornette: Made in America (1985)

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Summary Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette’s evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes, and some of the first music video-style segments ever made, chronicle his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cu...

Directed By: Shirley Clarke

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100
Aug 30, 2012
Ornette isn't just a love letter to the liberty of jazz rhythms; it excels at expressing them.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
90
Aug 31, 2012
Years after its initial release, Ornette: Made in America, part of Milestone's continuing "Project Shirley," still feels fresh - its moves always surprising, yet always somehow perfect.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
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Aug 31, 2012
Clarke started out as a dancer studying with Martha Graham, and much of Ornette has a dancelike swing and propulsion. What it doesn't provide is a cogent look at Coleman's artistry. This is not a jazz film for people who want to sit back and get mellow. The film itself is a species of jazz. It's offbeat without missing the beat.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 28, 2012
Coleman's life and work are treated as a continuum, which Clarke pulls from at will.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 27, 2023
Miss Clarke's methods tend to be as fanciful as Ornette Coleman's are rigorous and abstract, but the collaboration between film maker and subject has its own kind of harmony.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 28, 2012
Shirley Clarke's portraiture eschews cohesive biography and often spirals off into lyrical dissonance.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 1, 2012
Very much a work of its time, the documentary offers unique perspectives for fans of both the saxophonist and the pioneering filmmaker, but is unlikely to attract a broad audience beyond those camps.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Caravan of Dreams Productions
Release Date Aug 31, 2012
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline A celebration of a jazz great.
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