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Jazz great Miles Davis was a musical risk-taker – and this cinematic tribute follows his experimental lead.
Paul Byrnes was director of the Sydney Film Festival from 1989 to 1998. He has been a film critic for The Sydney Morning Herald for 20 years. In 2007, he was awarded the Geraldine Pascall prize for critical writing, the highest award in the Australian media for critics in any genre.
Jazz great Miles Davis was a musical risk-taker – and this cinematic tribute follows his experimental lead.
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