ONLINE SALES HAVE NOW CLOSED

There are a few tickets left on the door : please arrive early to book in person

Bill Cunningham New York – Manchester Premiere

and + post film Q+A with Ian Tilton legendary Manchester Photographer of 'The Stone Roses', 'The Smiths', 'Nirvana' and 'The Hacienda' 

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.

SYNOPSIS

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.

+ post film Q+A with Ian Tilton legendary Manchester Photographer of 'The Stone Roses', 'The Smiths', 'Nirvana' and 'The Hacienda' 

Screening at

Future Artists

Black Lion, 65 Chapel Street, Salford, m35bz

Tuesday March 20th 2012, 8pm

Dine before the film, Black Lion now has a fantastic new menu, suitable for all, with a great veggie range too, Dinner and a Movie £10 (Special New York Inspired Menu) 

Tickets from here.

Black Lion website http://blacklionsalford.tumblr.com/

Official film website http://billcunninghamnewyork.co.uk/