"Bill Cunningham New York" Documents NY's Favorite Street Photographer

NEW YORK (NY) - The world's a twitter about the upcoming Zeitgeist/Richard Press documentary Bill Cunningham New York, the loving and emotional tribute to New York street photographer Bill Cunningham, soon to open in more than fifty American cities.

The 84-minute, color film, shot in the USA, opens on the 16th of March at New York's Film Forum - and more than fifty other cities and venues on the 25th of March, 2011.

The buzz has already consumed the Internet. Zeitgeist recently posted the trailer on their new website - and the film has been blogged, Facebooked and tweeted about all over.

The Huffington Post wrote "New York's original street style photographer Bill Cunningham will hit the silver screen come March 16 (March 25 in Los Angeles with some 50 other cities following) in a documentary we'll be lining up (in our chicest clothes) to see."

Flavorpill's Flavorwire wrote "Attention Sunday Styles devotees: The trailer for Richard Press' documentary on the New York Times' intrepid street photographer Bill Cunningham just landed online, and it looks to be just as adorable as the man himself."

Meanwhile, Twitter has been all-a-twitter about the trailer with people saying "So excited about this," "Another must see," "Wow. I actually got chills," "If you're a fan of fashion, New York, or Bill Cunningham, check this out," and even "weeping with joy thanks to...the trailer for the Bill Cunningham doc."

You can read much more on the film's Facebook page: Bill Cunningham New York.

"We all get dressed for Bill," says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour.

The "Bill" in question is 80-plus 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 soir�es for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours."

Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller - all of whom appear in the film, due to 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.

As the Times of London (January 26, 2011) wrote, "When fashion fans talk about street style these days, they're likely to drop the names of Scott Schuman, Yvan Rodic aka The Facehunter or Garance Dor�."

"But most of them forget about a true pioneer in this field, 80-year-old New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham, who now gets the credit he deserves in new documentary Bill Cunningham New York."

For everyone who has ever doubted Cunningham's significance, the trailer, which can now be watched on the film's official website, starts with US Vogue editrix Anna Wintour saying that "we all get dressed for Bill."

The photographer started documenting her style when she was still a child, and over the years he photographed everyone from Tom Wolfe to David Rockefeller for his two weekly columns, 'On the Street' and 'Evening Hours' in the New York Times Style section.

But while it is fascinating to watch him work, it is even more interesting to get to know the extremely private man behind the camera, which the film sets out to do.

"When people ask how long it took to make Bill Cunningham New York I say ten years," says director Richard Press, "eight to convince Bill to be filmed and two to shoot and edit the film."

Watch the trailer and read more about the film here: http://www.billcunninghamnewyork.com