Before the internet and before the likes of fashion bloggers, there was Bill Cunningham, the street-fashion and society chronicler for The New York Times. After 50 years of cycling the streets of the Big Apple with his camera, snapping the great, the good and the stylish, Bill Cunningham is now in front of the lens in this loving and intimate portrait of a remarkable man and a chronicler of a city.
The “Bill” in question is 80+ 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 (Anna 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.
Bath – Royal Photographic Society – Popup Cinema Screening
October 29th, 2012
Get down to the west country for some film watching this November!
May 11th, 2012
Dogwoof has announced an exciting new partnership with the educational charity Film Club
April 16th, 2012
With Bill Cunningham New York out on DVD now, its time for a giveaway!
April 2nd, 2012
Order your copy today from the Dogwoof DVD shop
March 12th, 2012
This Friday Dogwoof's latest documentary film release will hit the UK
February 2nd, 2012
Dogwoof Fashion documentary gets its first UK showing
January 30th, 2012
5 Dogwoof documentaries will be screening at the 2012 Glasgow Film Festival
January 3rd, 2012
We look back at 2011's highlights, and forward to our upcoming slate of 2012 documentary releases.
November 30th, 2011
Four dogwoof titles have been nominated for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Film Awards.
November 28th, 2011
Dogwoof founder Andy Whittaker looks at the resurgance of the genre...