2023

In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon

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From “The Sounds of Silence” as part of the legendary duo, Simon and Garfunkel, to solo hits, “Mother and Child Reunion” and the Graceland album, Paul Simon’s extraordinary sixty-year career has cemented his status as both one of the greatest songwriters of all time and most celebrated artists of the twentieth century. This definitive portrait by Academy Award-winning director, Alex Gibney, follows Paul inside his studio in Texas hill country as he looks back on his lifework, battling the loss of hearing in his left ear while creating his new album, Seven Psalms.

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Director Alex Gibney called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine has a signature cinematic style that lends itself to penetrating, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries. His work has been the recipient of an Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Award, The Independent Spirit Award and The Writers Guild Awards. Gibney's 2020 releases included: the well-received Crazy, Not Insane, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Agents of Chaos, a two-part documentary about Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections both for HBO, and Totally Under Control, a searing look at the administration’s failure to contain the COVID 19 pandemic released theatrically by Neon. In 2021, he directed the HBO and HBO Max two-part documentary, The Crime of the Century, which explored the origins, extent, and fallout of one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time, the opioid crises. His most recent release is the Emmy-winning HBO and HBO Max documentary, The Forever Prisoner, which explored the chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Gibney's most recent 2-part feature documentary, Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker premiered in Berlin International Film Festival, and is available now on Apple TV+.

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Director
Alex Gibney
Producer
Alex Gibney
Erin Edeiken
Svetlana Zill
David Rahtz
Editor
Andy Grieve

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