‘In Restless Dreams’ Director Alex Gibney On Paul Simon’s Extraordinary Music: “It Gets In Your Lungs And Suddenly You’re Breathing It”
deadline.comWind gusts quivered the tree limbs, rainfall ricocheted off the roads, and in an instant, power cut off at the old Opera House on Elm Street in Camden, Maine, scuttling screenings there at the Camden International Film Festival.
With that mid-September atmospheric outburst, Hurricane Lee did in the scheduled U.S. premiere of Alex Gibney’s new film In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.
Now, the honor of hosting the American debut goes to the Hamptons International Film Festival this Friday, where the documentary screens as the festival Centerpiece (Simon will appear in person there for a conversation moderated by Rolling Stone’s David Fear).
On Sunday, the film plays across the pond at the BFI London Film Festival. During what was supposed to be Gibney’s Camden premiere, I stopped by the hotel where the filmmaker was staying to talk about his exploration of one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters.
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