Academy Icons Presents ‘Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time’ and ‘Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart ‘

Guild Hall continues Academy Icons, a new series that spotlights Guild Hall Academy of the Arts members and their work. This season’s program features films by Susan Lacy, an acclaimed director and producer best known for creating “American Masters,” the PBS biography series, which began in 1986, profiling artists and visionaries who have helped shape our country’s culture.

The third of four programs on Sunday, September 8, at 7 p.m. will be a screening of “Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time” followed by a conversation with Lacy and filmmaker Mirra Bank.

In the 1960s, Paul Simon’s moving lyric “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was an anthem for a generation. With Art Garfunkel, he made moving testaments to the times, fusing folk and rock music. In the 1980s, he pioneered popular cross-cultural music that brought South African musicians into mainstream America with Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

The series will close with “Lou Reed: Rock & Roll Heart” on Sunday, September 15, at 7 p.m. followed by a talk with Lacy, multidisciplinary artist and Reed’s wife Laurie Anderson, and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Musician, poet and composer Lou Reed made rock ’n’ roll into avant-garde. This incredible retracing of Reed’s evolution is filled with interviews with the artist, his friends, and some of the major artists he influenced including David Bowie, David Byrne, John Cale, Philip Glass and Patti Smith.

Tickets are $25 ($22.50 for Guild Hall members) at guildhall.org. Guild Hall is at 158 Main Street in East Hampton.