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Alex Gibney (In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon | Amazon & Apple TV+)

Alex Gibney (In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon | Amazon & Apple TV+)

FromThe Dangerous Art of the Documentary


Alex Gibney (In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon | Amazon & Apple TV+)

FromThe Dangerous Art of the Documentary

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Academy and Emmy Award winning director Alex Gibney, head of the prolific doc studio Jigsaw Productions, has a new film about an old legend, Paul Simon. “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon”, is a look back on Paul Simon's extraordinary six-decade career as well as an intimate glimpse into his creative process as he is in the studio creating his newest album, Seven Psalms. In his discussion with Tiller, Alex reflects on capturing both the practical and mystical method of Paul’s creative process (2:20), starting to put the film together with Paul (8:30), weaving the distant past with the present day (15:30), uncovering the intimacy between Paul and Wynton Marsalis through their disagreements (21:30), and how creating music is unexpectedly evocative of the documentary process itself (28:00). 

Produced by: Jacob Miller
Executive Producer: Tiller Russell
Music by: James Carroll, Graham Tracey & Zydepunk
Distributed by: Jake Brennan & Brady Sadler, Double Elvis Productions
Released:
Jun 22, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (52)

Filmmaker Tiller Russell (Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, Operation Odessa, The Last Narc, The Seven Five) exchanges the camera for a microphone, sitting down with other documentary filmmakers for riveting, in-depth conversations about their most successful and iconic films.