The resulting film, “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” is the result of a five-year odyssey that captures the sprawl of Simon’s seven decades in music through archival footage ...

Such conspicuous back-half omissions keep In Restless Dreams from merely being damn near the definitive Paul Simon documentary as opposed to the definitive one. Then again, Gibney isn’t trying ...

He shows it. So, “In Restless Dreams,” more than anything else, becomes the story of a musical artist at work. Gibney has Simon take us under the hood, to reveal the process of finding the ...

In January 2019, Paul Simon awoke from a dream. Some voice in his head had informed him, deep within his REM cycle, that he was going to work on a project called “Seven Psalms.” The singer ...

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon — an appraisal of a songwriting titan From Garfunkel to ‘Graceland’, Alex Gibney’s sprawling documentary makes you want to revisit the star’s ...

“The Sound of Silence was the first song I wrote which seemed to come from some place that I didn’t inhabit,” Simon tells The Guardian.. “At age 23, it was unusual, well beyond my age and ...