On Sunday, the film plays across the pond at the BFI London Film Festival.
But he reminds me, This would be the fifth film, really, Ive done about music…
So, Ive kind of been invested in that.
Paul Simon on tour for ‘Graceland’ in 1987MGM+/courtesy of Guido Harari
And of course, I was interested in that, Gibney recalls.
But the gift was when he called me up and said, Im making thisnewalbum.
Would you like to come watch me make it?
Alex Gibney at the Deadline Portrait Studio at TIFF 2023.Chris Chapman/Deadline
And that was a gift because it was him in the present working on something.
I could see him working on it.
And so where do you place the voice?
Where do you place the other instruments?
How do you hear them?
And that becomes harder to do when youre not hearing in stereo.
It does soar and it really gets inside you, Gibney says of Simons music.
Its like it gets in your lungs and suddenly youre breathing it.
Gibney is weighing various distribution options.
Were talking to a bunch of people now, and its exciting, the response, he tells Deadline.
But yeah, theres a lot of enthusiasm.
