Is Paul Simon the greatest songwriter in the history of American popular music? Director Alex Gibney lets someone else say it at the beginning of “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” though ...
Simon has a strong twitch that drives him to shake his head, meaninglessly. He sometimes dribbles. The way he looks out at the world from under his brows, especially when people are talking to him, ...
Two years ago, Paul Simon released his 15th album. And the public greeted it as one might expect the 15th album by a singer-songwriter in his 80s to be received. Reviews were respectful. Interviews ...
Premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, the award-winning filmmaker's latest is a close-up look at one of America's most important pop music figures. By Caryn James “People used to say I had my ...
Seeking his comfort zone, a mysterious young man joins a group of disabled adolescents in this Argentine drama that won the Grand Prize at Cannes Critics' Week. Twenty-one-year-old Simon (Lorenzo ...
At first, the title of Alex Gibney’s “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon” seems as if it could be a warning about the director’s approach in this supersized documentary. The film, its title ...
In her latest doc, which premiered at Cannes, the French director observes the daily life of a primary school in a suburb of Paris. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic As in her previous films, ...
The first thing to say about Alex Gibney’s “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon” is that it’s three-and-a-half hours long. Normally I wouldn’t lead with that daunting fact, especially since ...
Amid the tired and unsatisfying crowd of coming-of-age movies and high school romantic comedies plaguing the 2010s, “Love, Simon” is a refreshing breath of authentic, modern and unapologetic gay ...
“People used to say I had my finger on the pulse,” Paul Simon tells Alex Gibney early in his artfully composed documentary, In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon. “I just have my finger out ...