Saugatuck Center For The Arts Presents Real To Reel: Bill Cunningham NEW YORK

Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011
Start Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Saugatuck Center For The Arts

Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events

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$5 – members; $7 non-members

We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour.

The “Bill” in question is 80 years+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.”

Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

Vogue.com says, "This touching, heart-swelling film reminds us that fashion doesn’t have to be so serious. It can be fun. It can be frivolous. And, as Mr. Cunningham shows us night after night, it can be a wild adventure.” The Boston Globe heralds, "Fascinating! A smart, playful movie! As much a portrait of a kind of artist as it is a document of a city’s evolving sense of style.”

More information at http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork/index.html

Sponsored by Restaurant Toulouse/Chequers, Bud Baty & Max Matteson, Jon Helmrich & Stephen Mottram, Gary Kott & Jon Schreur and media partners Revue and WGVU

Location Details

Saugatuck Center For The Arts
400 Culver St
Saugatuck MI 49453

Location Phone: 269-857-2399