Night Waltz: The Music Of Paul Bowles

First-time filmmaker Owsley Brown's splendid documentary is the third film in five years to peer into the fascinating world of Paul Bowles: author, expatriate and spiritual forefather of the Beat generation. But Brown's film is the first to concentrate on Bowles's music, an important part of Bowles's career that's usually glossed over. Throughout the 1930s and '40s — long before moving to Tangier and establishing himself as a novelist with The Sheltering Sky — Bowles was an important part of New York City's musical avant garde. He wrote short, deceptively simple compositions that often accompanied cutting edge play...