Bill Cunningham New York - Movie Review

For five decades, celebrated the New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham, a street fashion's roving eye has been an observer like a great photo of the city sidewalk Stompers and stylish celebrities become an important barometer. Cunningham gets its own close-up is amazing in this program, it follow from the streets of Manhattan parties and high society to his apartment alone Midtown closely and insights into the way the man is shown at the same time and is influenced by the Zeitgeist prevailing fashion. 

Despite his self-deprecating demeanor and low-key get-ups, is Cunningham, a large force, respected by fashion editors, beloved of celebrities (he was close friends with the late Brooke Astor) and worships the cult of the students willing show their it outrageous clothes. No one seems to know that Cunningham was, however, and he remained cryptic as private and their photos as public. 

The fashion plates and fans of Cunningham's work undoubtedly get a kick out of this document, which makes a pleasant wild romp through the streets and over the landscape and productive manner with Cunningham playing tour guide jovial. Download the charm sent output is still the man who shoots all the photos on film, and insists on bike from one appearance to another. was buried for a cult figure in a sea of ​​ Glamor, Cunningham's life is frighteningly modest, and the movie-watching Popper. we discovered that, until recently, he lived in a tiny apartment with a bathroom in the hall and slept on cots next to rows of filing cabinets. But
behind this lies in the moderate face of information one can see that the women dress and reference Scheherazade and John Singer Sargent and violent past, designers were already milked that particular bias. It is essentially a kind of institutional memory: the archivist and curator of the kinetic visual, photographs decades going inquiry not just fashion, but click to democratize it identified, and fusion of haute with the great mass of a shutter speed. 

Is there a switch or instigator? Chronicler or referee? "Bill Cunningham in New York" hits the core number is still a mystery, none more captivating than once difficult, at one point asks filmmaker Richard press him about his personal life and whether they are gay or never in love. The answer is disarmingly exciting. With enthusiasm, "Bill Cunningham in New York" creates an image of lush mind that even in a recycling business with clones and fashion trends, a true original covered. 

Did you know? Cunningham apparently comfortable Job Hazards: During his career, and I had 28 stolen bicycles.