Tom Surgal Movies

A cult guru urges a shy disciple to make life a movie and be its star.

A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.

Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane - are today acknowledged as central to the evolution of jazz as America's most innovative art...