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Genres:	DocumentaryBiogra
Starring:	Editta Sherman, Anna Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Bill Cunningham, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Annette De la Renta, Mrs. Vincent Astor
Director(s):	Richard Press
Country:	USA, France
Year:	2010
IMDB Rating:	8
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Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thing,the pictures he takes that document the way people dress. The 80-year-old New York Times photographer has two columns in the papers Style section, yet nobody knows who he is.

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chaz-28 18 May 2012

A fascinating documentary about a guy who loves interesting clothes

Bill Cunningham can't be bought. He is there to observe and to takepictures, not to consume the fancy meal or mingle with the celebrities;a line which most individuals in his position would most likely blur.Bill has a section of the Sunday New York Times Style section where hewill point out a new clothing trend he sees on the streets, what peoplewere wearing at a recent evening gala, or just profile an interestinglooking person. I used to skip over this section every week; however,now that I know about Bill from the excellent documentary BillCunningham New York, I will never skip over this section again.Even though Bill is now 80 years old, he still dons his signature bluejacket every day and rides his bicycle all over Manhattan searching andtaking pictures. If it is raining, he will duct tape a garbage bag overhis shirt. He is searching for interesting clothing and it does notmatter if a celebrity is wearing them or not. A major separationbetween Bill and other photographers is he is just fine not taking acelebrity picture; he does not care at all about a person's fame level,just in their choice of clothing.Bill is usually the first to notice a new trend. While frequentingstreet corners, crosswalks, and the outside of department stores, hewill immediately stop his bike (sometimes in the middle of traffic) tosnap a few shots. During the first week of August, he happened tonotice that a lot of New Yorkers were wearing black and made that a hiscolumn's focus. Bill has become a celebrity on his bicycle as hecruises the streets and there are many influential people, who Billcould care less about, who crave his attention. There are interviewsfrom Anna Wintour, Tom Wolfe, and other very powerful people in thefashion industry who will also take time out of their day to find outwhat Bill knows.Even though he has the power to affect clothing trends, until veryrecently, Bill lived in Carnegie Hall as one of the few remainingvisual artist tenants before the final lot of them were evicted to newpremises. He slept on a cot in what could be described as closet spacesurrounded by dozens of file cabinets containing his life's work. IfBill thinks he has seen something before, he is pretty sure he can goback and find it. One example is of a designer who revealed a newcollection only for Bill to find a 1972 photo montage of an eerilysimilar line.Bill Cunningham New York is a documentary I was not eager to seebecause I assumed it was just about the fashion world. I was completelywrong. It is not about fashion, it is just about Bill and his routinewhich is completely absorbing and perhaps the best documentary of theyear. It is also the second documentary this year dealing with the NewYork Times released just before Page One: Inside the New York Times.Now that I have seen them both, there is a reason the story on BillCunningham is on the short list of 15 documentaries which are eligiblefor this year's Best Documentary Oscar. If it happens to win, it willnot matter very much to Bill. He will be doing what he does every day,riding his bicycle to find the next interesting pair of shoes.

brimon28 17 May 2012

An exciting picture of one man's New York

Once upon a time this reviewer was a photographer who rode a bicyclefor work. I carried a camera always. Film, until digital becamecheaper. Here we have a man in love with his city and his camera.Director Press (what an apt name!), who also photographs and cuts, setsout to draw a man. In doing so he puts a tiny figure into a broadpanorama of what some would say is the cultural capital of the world.Could a Bill Cunningham exist anywhere else? OK, we spend a little timein Paris, but the flavor is New York. This reviewer knows New York, hasbeen influenced by Paris with but fleeting visits. This film alludes tothe work of Jean Luc Godard, a director of imagination. Amongstphotographers, Paris and New York evoke images that stimulate andprovoke.In my reviews I've been critical of hand-held camera work. Otherwisefine films, I believe, have suffered because the cinematographers haveforgotten that viewers expect to see steady images. This film useshand-held wisely, intercutting it with fixed scenes. There is a rhythmof busy, noisy shots interspersed with quiet, even contemplativematerial. This is an absorbing, thoughtful motion picture, telling astory of a "stills" master.As I walked out of the cinema, people chatted animatedly with strangersabout what they had seen, a reaction I had not before seen. My ownreaction was envy and admiration. Here was an octogenarian riding abike, when I had had to give it up; a photographer productive andimaginative. Lovely and exciting.

Steve Pulaski 12 May 2012

Smile, you're on camera!

I wasn't sure how I felt going into Bill Cunningham New York. I thoughtto myself this is a man who goes around New York photographing men andwomen wearing their attire, and doing a lot of cutting and pasting intomaking it a weekly section in The New York Times. But I also thoughtthat this couldn't be the end of the story. Something about BillCunningham had to be interesting, creative, and unique to get his ownfilm.Thankfully, I thought correctly, and now am fully intrigued by the lifeof eighty-year old Bill Cunningham. His job is not only a differentone, but one he tirelessly continues to do as he rides around on histwenty-ninth Schwinn bicycle up and down lower Manhattan to photographboots, hats, scarfs, clothes, pants, etc. This is a man who throughthick and thin keeps on smiling. You'd never know he was having a badday because he'd most likely smile during that too.Bill lives in a tiny, rent-controlled apartment in Carnegie Hall wherethere is no kitchen, but dozens of file cabinets filled with negativesand positives of photos he's taken over the past several years. Hesleeps on a mattress that lies on top of several more file cabinets.All I can say is if you think you're a dedicated lawyer, do you sleepon your briefcase? The film is 90% about Bill and his photography, andthe other 10% tries to nudge him in the side trying to dig deeper inhis personal life when he won't let you. We keep asking questions like"Is Bill straight?," "Does he date?," and etc, but we get little to noanswers. Maybe because this is a documentary about his work not hispersonal life. But the neglection of something a documentary on aspecific person needs, a little background, just brings this gem down atad bit.Bill explains how when he was a young child, at Church on Sundays,instead of listening to the preacher he'd be too busy staring at otherpeople's hats. This shows that his passion for fashion, a relativelyeclectic thing, started early and never held up.Many of us work at a job that keeps us satisfied and puts food on thetable. Bill works a job that keeps him over-joyed and puts food on hisfloor next to his file-cabinets. Rarely do a lot of people truly lovewhat they are doing, but Bill is one of them. He's a person who if youwatch be happy for a while, it begins to make you smile. He's the kindof person that just fills you with glee.Bill Cunningham New York is short and sweet, but still leaves manyquestions unanswered that I'm sure will remain unanswered forever. Billis a closed book, but open if you ask him anything about fashion. He'sa mirror-image of what you can become if you take life on the slowtrack and live a very basic, yet eventful life. It's almost inspiringwith its storytelling of just a simple, yet so complex man of interest.Starring: Bill Cunningham. Directed by: Richard Press.

nathanschubach 11 May 2012

Kindest New Yorker with a heart of gold deserves this celebration about his life

I can't positively gush about this movie more than any other viewercan. This documentary warms the heart and allows people to see a sideof life not many seem to slow down enough to view. I had never heard ofhim before watching this, but Bill truly is a great man. This moviemakes me want to slow down and appreciate the everyday styles thatpeople choose. I loved the various side-interviews with notablesubjects of his photographs and colleagues, many of whom have similarlyquirky yet important stories to tell. The music was so well graftedinto the scenes that you may overlook it, but it guides the times andNew York-living so well that it shouldn't be overlooked, either. Ifyou're looking for a heart-warming documentary about a very importantfigure and artist in modern fashion photography, you'll enjoy learningabout Bill as much as I did.

sick_desperation 07 May 2012

Beautiful and moving

Wow. Just wow. I really have no words that emphasize enough thebrilliance of this documentary.I am a complete fashion illiterate. I mean, the only things i wear aresports clothes, jeans and t-shirts. So i've never heard before of BillCunningham. He's a fashion photographer for the New York Times, and adamn fine one, it seems.This is his story, and what a story! Like a modern-day Thoreau, helives alone in his tiny apartment, filled only with art books andfilers full with negatives of his work of this last 60 years. He stilluses an old analog camera and rides his bike everywhere, only replacingit when it gets stolen.But, what's really special in this little marvel, at least for me(because of the fact that i don't do for living something that i reallycare about... if i think about it, i don't really know what could thatbe...) is the chance to watch someone who is completely and utterly inlove with what he does. He exudes happiness and content, because he isright where he wants to be, doing what he really wants to do, with allhis heart. He's 80 years old, and still kicking it like the best, whenmost people would be wasting away, retired after 30 or so years ofunfulfilling work.His elation transpires into his personality and daily interactions withhis colleagues and acquaintances, he's always smiling and good-humored.He's fiercely independent, and seems to be in a never-ending search forbeauty in all its forms.I believe that the world is a candid place with people like BillCunningham in it. Now it's up to the rest of us to find that which wecan be passionate about.

Caleb Chadwick 07 May 2012

One 2011's best films

This feature about one of the worlds leading photographers is somethingnot to be missed. It paints the portrait of a man who see's the worldfrom a different view than most. It shows the beauty in the mind of onewho's view on fashion is something that comes from a deeper place. Weget to see snip-it's of Bill Cunningham's deepest emotions and also thevision of a true visionary. These moments captured are charming,slightly funny, and relevant. Of all the documentaries scoping the lifeof one person I've seen, they really don't get much better than this.This film, which does have much critical acclaim now, is one that isdeserving of it's praise, and at the same time is not in any waypretentious. It is not only one of the most heartfelt films of theyear, but also one of the very best.

sam_adler 01 May 2012

More Grey Gardens than Grey Lady--or Shoulda Been

I rated this movie highly because i enjoyed its portrayal of a manpassionate about his work, principled in his approach to it,plainspoken, etc. But i think the director missed should've delved moredeeply into what was fueling his workaholism and critics miss the boatwhen they explain away his lack of personal life as a result of anall-consuming passion for fashion or Calvinist work ethic. I'm surethose are both true, but they're hardly the whole truth. As a result,even though I initially felt about the movie much the same as the othercommenters here, the more i think about it, the more I see aregrettable failure to explore how rejection by family and church dueto homosexuality can warp an individual, create such self-hatred thathe keeps the world at a distance by filling all his waking hours withwork, and spending his working hours hiding behind a lens. Onecharacter trait that is evident is need for absolute control overselection of pics, layout, etc., even to the point of working for nomoney. This could either be because he completely lacked the socialskills to compromise or because he just needed to assert control overthe little slice of life's possibilities that he had allowed himself.Fortunately for Bill, the work he threw himself into to the exclusionof everything else life has to offer happened to be something he wasboth passionate about and had an aptitude for, so we can all enjoy thefruits of his pathology. And I'm sure that's the kind of film the NYTimes wanted and probably the only way Bill would agree to be filmedfor this project (it was years getting him to sign on). Anyway, movieis completely enjoyable, but, like I said, treating as lovable quirksthe fact that this man has lived a life sleeping on a twin platform bedsurrounded by file cabinets, his wardrobe pretty much the clothes onhis back, no real friends to speak of, etc., seems to be a major flawof this otherwise interesting film.

David Ferguson 30 April 2012

I, On the Street

Greetings again from the darkness. Well my fashion sense is limited tojeans, a t-shirt and tennis shoes. I would not be one's first choice todiscuss the industry of fashion photography. However, that's not whatthis documentary is really about. Instead of focusing on thephotographs of Bill Cunningham, director Richard Press shoots the manat work and in life ... the two being indistinguishable for Mr.Cunningham.If you aren't familiar with his name, you are not alone. BillCunningham has a long running NY TIMES page where his photographs aredisplayed. He also has a feature called "On The Street", where herecords commentary for his photographs - this can be heard on thewebsite. Still, none of that tells you much about this man.The film opens abruptly with video of Cunningham at work. He isalternatingly riding his bicycle and sprint-walking as he weavesthrough the sea of taxis and humanity in downtown Manhattan. His trustycamera is always around his neck as he continues his quest for fashionon the street ... fashion sense in the working people of the city. Hiseye is sharp and quick. We never know what he will hone in on. Maybe anever-before-seen winter coat, a flamboyant hat, or even a pair ofheels that a woman is sporting. The man is over 80 years old and hiseye and mind still quickly process what he deems worthy of notice.Once again, none of those words do justice to this man or his story. Helives an incredibly humble life in a studio apartment within theconfines of Carnegie Hall. Yes, as the film takes place, he is amongthe last of the remaining residents of the great hall. We learnmanagement has determined that the few residents will be moved out ofthe building and relocated to other apartments nearby. We meet one ofthe other residents ... the fascinating "Duchesss of Carnegie", EdittaSherman. She has lived there for 60 years and it has been her home andphotography studio. She made her living shooting celebrities and wecatch a glimpse of her amazing work ... including a short video of herdancing in the 60's - filmed by Andy Warhol! Ms. Sherman's space ispalatial compared to Cunningham's. His small studio apartment iscrammed with metal file cabinets, each loaded with decades worth ofphotographs and negatives ... a real history of New York fashion. Hisbed is a twin mattress held up by books and crates - no kitchen, and acommunity bathroom. "Humble existence" is an understatement.We learn from Mr. Cunningham that his work is divided into three parts:his street work, fashion shows, and charity events. He makes it clearthat celebrities bore him and he is much more interested in how theeveryday person uses fashion in their real life. Still, early on, weget comments from Vogue editor, Anna Wintour about how Cunningham's eyeimpacts the fashion world. She gives him much credit. We also getquickies from Tom Wolfe, Annie Flanders and even Brooke Astor to seehow easily Cunningham fits in with the upper crust, despite hisconnection to the street. There is even a segment in Paris where he ishonored by the French Order of Art and Letters ... and he "works" hisown event! But it's the street where he is most at home. He says he ison his 29th bicycle ... the first 28 were stolen. He states this withthe same enthusiasm that he shoots his subjects. The man is a constantsmile and quick with banter, yet we learn just how alone he really is.When asked about his friends, family, lovers ... he momentarily breaksdown only to regroup and express his love for what he does - it's notwork, it's pleasure.By the end, it's clear that while so many people respect the man andhis work, no one really knows him. He lets his pictures stand as thetestament to decades of documenting the colors and patterns and styleof New Yorkers.

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