Director & Producer in Person for film BILL CUNNINGHAM IN NEW YORK in Berkeley April 9, 2011

Starts Friday, April 8 at the Shattuck Cinemas
Director Richard Press & Producer Philip Gefter in Person Sat, April 9
Q&A session after the 7:00pm showing and intro for the 9:10pm showing
The film BILL CUNNINGHAM NEWYORK will have regular showtimes April 8-14 in Bay Area

Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas, 2230 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley (510) 464-5980

Bill Cunningham is obsessively interested in only one thing—the pictures he takes that document the way people dress. “We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the New York Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Bill has lived in the same small studio above Carnegie Hall for fifty years, never eats in restaurants and gets around on a worn-out bicycle—his sole means of transportation. The contradiction of his monk-like existence and the extravagance of his photographic subject matter is one aspect of his private life revealed in the movie. 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.

Official Website: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=90066