Documentarian Ellen Hovde, best known for co-directing the groundbreaking film “Grey Gardens” with the Maysles brothers, has died at age 97.
Hovde’s February 16 passing was confirmed last week by her children, Tessa Huxley and Mark Trevenen Huxley, who said the cause was Alzheimer’s disease, and shared July 11 with The New York Times.
“Grey Gardens” was released in 1975 and followed the reclusive relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Edie Beale and her mother Edith Beale, who lived in East Hampton, New York in a deteriorating mansion. The film was co-directed by Hovde, Albert Maysles, and David Maysles. Hovde began working with the Maysles in the 1960s as a contributing editor on “Salesman,” their documentary made with Charlotte Zwerin about traveling Bible salesmen, and also worked as an editor on their Rolling Stones documentary “Gimme Shelter.” She was a credited director with the Maysles on their artist portrait “Christo’s Valley Curtain,...
Hovde’s February 16 passing was confirmed last week by her children, Tessa Huxley and Mark Trevenen Huxley, who said the cause was Alzheimer’s disease, and shared July 11 with The New York Times.
“Grey Gardens” was released in 1975 and followed the reclusive relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Edie Beale and her mother Edith Beale, who lived in East Hampton, New York in a deteriorating mansion. The film was co-directed by Hovde, Albert Maysles, and David Maysles. Hovde began working with the Maysles in the 1960s as a contributing editor on “Salesman,” their documentary made with Charlotte Zwerin about traveling Bible salesmen, and also worked as an editor on their Rolling Stones documentary “Gimme Shelter.” She was a credited director with the Maysles on their artist portrait “Christo’s Valley Curtain,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Although it may seem that films are now more accessible than ever, it’s simply not the case for independent film history.
“The truth is that movies are simply not as available today as they were during the heyday of VHS when some brick-and-mortar video stores carried tens of thousands of titles,” the manifesto for indie film preservation group Missing Movies states. “Now, with a few giant companies controlling the most popular streaming services and trying to outdo one another with original content, many older movies are being left behind.”
A collaborative effort between filmmakers and cinephiles, Missing Movies sets out to “empower filmmakers, distributors, archivists, and others to locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate for policies and laws to make the full range of our cinema history available to all,” as IndieWire can exclusively share.
Founding Missing Movies filmmakers include Mary Harron, Shola Lynch, Nancy Savoca, Ira Deutchman,...
“The truth is that movies are simply not as available today as they were during the heyday of VHS when some brick-and-mortar video stores carried tens of thousands of titles,” the manifesto for indie film preservation group Missing Movies states. “Now, with a few giant companies controlling the most popular streaming services and trying to outdo one another with original content, many older movies are being left behind.”
A collaborative effort between filmmakers and cinephiles, Missing Movies sets out to “empower filmmakers, distributors, archivists, and others to locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate for policies and laws to make the full range of our cinema history available to all,” as IndieWire can exclusively share.
Founding Missing Movies filmmakers include Mary Harron, Shola Lynch, Nancy Savoca, Ira Deutchman,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The dysfunctional family has been an ever-present image in popular culture for decades: the battling husband and wife flanked by their bratty children are perhaps most frequently employed on garishly trite television sitcoms. In the movies, the gloves are ripped away and the reality shines on what is more often than not left unexposed in the darkness. What’s revealed seems to irrefutably prove that Tolstoy was absolutely correct when he wrote: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Now playing in select theaters is Little Men, the newest film from director Ira Sachs, with whom we recently spoke to about its making. The plot follows two teenage boys in Brooklyn, NY who develop a budding friendship, despite the feuding of their parents over the lease of a local dress shop. The film is already receiving raves from critics, including our own review...
Now playing in select theaters is Little Men, the newest film from director Ira Sachs, with whom we recently spoke to about its making. The plot follows two teenage boys in Brooklyn, NY who develop a budding friendship, despite the feuding of their parents over the lease of a local dress shop. The film is already receiving raves from critics, including our own review...
- 8/11/2016
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
Above: Us poster for Salesman (Maysles Brothers & Charlotte Zwerin, USA, 1968). Designer: Henry Wolf. Courtesy of Film/Art Gallery.Starting today, Film Forum in New York is hosting The Maysles & Co., a comprehensive two-week long retrospective of the work of the legendary “Direct Cinema” documentarians Albert and David Maysles—best known for Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (1976)—and their various collaborators, most especially Charlotte Zwerin. Grey Gardens, a film whose title has entered the lingua franca, is the only documentary ever to be turned into a Tony-winning Broadway musical, an Emmy-winning TV dramatization, and an SNL-alumni parody, but its poster, a simple framing of a photograph by Herb Goro, doesn’t really do the film justice. Gimme Shelter, on the other hand—the Maysles’ biggest international success—has inspired a wide variety of designs. For me, the stand-out is the stark black and white one sheet with all-Helvetica type, the first one featured below.
- 4/16/2016
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
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NYC’s IFC Center has plans to expand, and they could use your help to let city officials know you support it.
Watch Don Cheadle analyze a scene from Miles Ahead:
Xavier Dolan‘s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan begins shooting on July 9th, Le Journal de Quebec reports.
Cinematographer Jeff Cutter discusses shooting 10 Cloverfield Lane with Filmmaker Magazine:
Anamorphic lenses just have a feeling that reminded Dan and I of what it used to be like watching these great widescreen movies when we were kids that were shot anamorphic. It just makes it feel like a big movie and that was something that we really,...
NYC’s IFC Center has plans to expand, and they could use your help to let city officials know you support it.
Watch Don Cheadle analyze a scene from Miles Ahead:
Xavier Dolan‘s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan begins shooting on July 9th, Le Journal de Quebec reports.
Cinematographer Jeff Cutter discusses shooting 10 Cloverfield Lane with Filmmaker Magazine:
Anamorphic lenses just have a feeling that reminded Dan and I of what it used to be like watching these great widescreen movies when we were kids that were shot anamorphic. It just makes it feel like a big movie and that was something that we really,...
- 4/4/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
Each week, the fine folks at Fandor add a number of films to their Criterion Picks area, which will then be available to subscribers for the following twelve days. This week, the Criterion Picks focus on eight films featuring cats!
Need we say more? Meet the furry feline familiars that have graced some of the world’s greatest movies with their mercurial and mesmerizing presence.
Don’t have a Fandor subscription? They offer a free trial membership.
L’Atalante, the French Classic Drama by Jean Vigo
In Jean Vigo’s hands, an unassuming tale of conjugal love becomes an achingly romantic reverie of desire and hope.
Cléo from 5 to 7, the French Drama by Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.
Grey Gardens, the Documentary by Ellen Hovde,...
Need we say more? Meet the furry feline familiars that have graced some of the world’s greatest movies with their mercurial and mesmerizing presence.
Don’t have a Fandor subscription? They offer a free trial membership.
L’Atalante, the French Classic Drama by Jean Vigo
In Jean Vigo’s hands, an unassuming tale of conjugal love becomes an achingly romantic reverie of desire and hope.
Cléo from 5 to 7, the French Drama by Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.
Grey Gardens, the Documentary by Ellen Hovde,...
- 1/12/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
The battle between man and modernity is one that has been seen on screen almost since cinema’s inception. Ostensibly the unifying trope across the entirety of the Western genre, this is only becoming more important a discussion as technology begins to advance into areas left previously for science fiction. With man now having the ability to do everything from paying bills to writing a novel simply by powering on his or her cell phone, humanity is on the brink of its greatest sociological evolution to date. It’s this conversation between technology and humanity that is at the heart of the new documentary, Making Rounds.
As seemingly niche a documentary as one could imagine, director Muffie Meyer introduces the viewer to a pair of doctors, Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD and Herschel Sklaroff, MD. Both working at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, these two lead what is...
As seemingly niche a documentary as one could imagine, director Muffie Meyer introduces the viewer to a pair of doctors, Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD and Herschel Sklaroff, MD. Both working at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, these two lead what is...
- 10/30/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Making Rounds First Run Features Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B Director: Muffie Meyer Written by: Muffie Meyer Cast: Dr. Valentin Fuster, Dr. Herschel Sklaroff Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/18/15 Opens: October 30, 2015 in NY If you’re a fan of “Terminator” and “Batman” movies exclusively, you’re highly unlikely to watch “Making Rounds” for more than three minutes. Muffie Meyer directs, and the movie got financing from the McInerney Family. The film is of particular interest from those who (like me) have received hospital care for cardiac problems as it is filmed exclusively within the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where I too [ Read More ]
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- 9/19/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
First off, let's make one thing clear. We're not scratching our heads at Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" making the BBC's 100 greatest American films. That movie, of which an image accompanies this post, not only made the list, but ranked appropriately at no. 25. It's the rest of the selections that have us scratching and, yes, shaking our heads in disbelief. A wonderful page view driver, these sorts of lists make great fodder for passionate movie fans no matter what their age or part of the world they hail from. There is nothing more entertaining than watching two critics from opposite ends of the globe try to debate whether "The Dark Knight" should have been nominated for best picture or make a list like this. Even in this age of short form content where Vines, Shapchats and Instagram videos have captured viewers attention, movies will continue to inspire because...
- 7/22/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Leave it to the Brits to compile a list of the best American films of all-time. BBC Culture has published a list of what it calls "The 100 Greatest American Films", as selected by 62 international film critics in order to "get a global perspective on American film." As BBC Culture notes, the critics polled represent a combination of broadcasters, book authors and reviewers at various newspapers and magazines across the world. As for what makes an American filmc "Any movie that received funding from a U.S. source," BBC Culture's publication states, which is to say the terminology was quite loose, but the list contains a majority of the staples you'd expect to see. Citizen Kane -- what elsec -- comes in at #1, and in typical fashion The Godfather follows at #2. Vertigo, which in 2012 topped Sight & Sound's list of the greatest films of all-time, comes in at #3 on BBC Culture's list.
- 7/21/2015
- by Jordan Benesh
- Rope of Silicon
Every now and then a major publication or news organisation comes up with a top fifty or one hundred films of all time list - a list which always stirs up debate, discussion and often interesting arguments about the justifications of the list's inclusions, ordering and notable exclusions.
Today it's the turn of BBC Culture who consulted sixty-two international film critics including print reviews, bloggers, broadcasters and film academics to come up with what they consider the one-hundred greatest American films of all time. To qualify, the film had to be made by a U.S. studio or mostly funded by American money.
Usually when a list of this type is done it is by institutes or publications within the United States asking American critics their favourites. This time it's non-American critics born outside the culture what they think are the best representations of that culture. Specifically they were asked...
Today it's the turn of BBC Culture who consulted sixty-two international film critics including print reviews, bloggers, broadcasters and film academics to come up with what they consider the one-hundred greatest American films of all time. To qualify, the film had to be made by a U.S. studio or mostly funded by American money.
Usually when a list of this type is done it is by institutes or publications within the United States asking American critics their favourites. This time it's non-American critics born outside the culture what they think are the best representations of that culture. Specifically they were asked...
- 7/21/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles passed away last night, reported The Criterion Collection on the day it is rereleasing one of his most indelible and influential works, Grey Gardens (co-directed with David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer). He was 88. With David, his brother, Albert Maysles made “direct cinema” documentaries that were politically and socially impactful upon release and aesthetically groundbreaking for generations of filmmakers to follow. The 1969 documentary Salesman (co-directed with Charlotte Zerin) captured the everyday sorrows of ordinary people — in this case, door-to-door Bible salesman — toiling in the shadows of both the American […]...
- 3/6/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles passed away last night, reported The Criterion Collection on the day it is rereleasing one of his most indelible and influential works, Grey Gardens (co-directed with David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer). He was 88. With David, his brother, Albert Maysles made “direct cinema” documentaries that were politically and socially impactful upon release and aesthetically groundbreaking for generations of filmmakers to follow. The 1969 documentary Salesman (co-directed with Charlotte Zerin) captured the everyday sorrows of ordinary people — in this case, door-to-door Bible salesman — toiling in the shadows of both the American […]...
- 3/6/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Read More: How 'Grey Gardens' Was Restored to Its Squalid Glory (and Why You Need to See It)Veteran documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, the cinema verite pioneer who co-directed seminal non-fiction titles such as "Gimme Shelter" and "Salesman" with his brother David, passed away last night at the age of 88. The news was first reported by The Criterion Collection this morning on the company's Facebook page. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Post by The Criterion Collection. Criterion today releases the filmmaker's seminal classic "Grey Gardens" (co-directed by his brother David, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer) back into theaters in honor of its upcoming 40th anniversary. The director's latest film,...
- 3/6/2015
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
As reported over at The Dissolve, highly respected British film magazine Sight & Sound is famous for its list of the greatest films off all time released once every decade. Since 1952, Citizen Kane held the number one spot until Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo dethroned it in the 2012 poll. Now for the first time Sight & Sound has released a list of the 50 greatest documentary films of all time. The list was compiled after polling from over 200 critics and curators and 100 filmmakers, including “John Akomfrah, Michael Apted, Clio Barnard, James Benning, Sophie Fiennes, Amos Gitai, Paul Greengrass, Jose Guerin, Isaac Julien, Asif Kapadia, Sergei Loznitsa, Kevin Macdonald, James Marsh, Joshua Oppenheimer, Anand Patwardhan, Pawel Pawlikowski, Nicolas Philibert, Walter Salles, and James Toback”.
The top 10 are:
Man With A Movie Camera, (Dziga Vertov, 1929) Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) Sans Soleil, (Chris Marker, 1982) Night And Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1989) Chronicle Of A Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin,...
The top 10 are:
Man With A Movie Camera, (Dziga Vertov, 1929) Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) Sans Soleil, (Chris Marker, 1982) Night And Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1989) Chronicle Of A Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin,...
- 8/1/2014
- by Max Molinaro
- SoundOnSight
More than 200 critics and 100 filmmakers take part in poll.
Dziga Vertov’s silent film Man with a Movie Camera (1929) has topped Sight & Sound magazine’s first major poll of the world’s best documentaries.
More than 1,000 films were nominated by 200 critics and 100 filmmakers with more than 100 voting for Man with a Movie Camera.
Vertov’s surrealist classic in which a man travels around a city with a camera documenting urban life was shot in Odessa, Kiev and Khadliv.
Vertov also topped the critics’ list of top doc filmmakers while Frederick Wiseman is number one according to his fellow directors.
Participating filmmakers included Kevin Macdonald, Walter Salles, Joshua Oppenheimer, James Toback, Asif Kapadia, Carol Morley and Mark Cousins.
Critics’ Top 10 documentariesMan with a Movie Camera, dir. Dziga Vertov (Ussr 1929) [pictured]Shoah, dir. Claude Lanzmann (France 1985)Sans soleil, dir. Chris Marker (France 1982)Night and Fog, dir. Alain Resnais (France 1955)The Thin Blue Line, dir. [link...
Dziga Vertov’s silent film Man with a Movie Camera (1929) has topped Sight & Sound magazine’s first major poll of the world’s best documentaries.
More than 1,000 films were nominated by 200 critics and 100 filmmakers with more than 100 voting for Man with a Movie Camera.
Vertov’s surrealist classic in which a man travels around a city with a camera documenting urban life was shot in Odessa, Kiev and Khadliv.
Vertov also topped the critics’ list of top doc filmmakers while Frederick Wiseman is number one according to his fellow directors.
Participating filmmakers included Kevin Macdonald, Walter Salles, Joshua Oppenheimer, James Toback, Asif Kapadia, Carol Morley and Mark Cousins.
Critics’ Top 10 documentariesMan with a Movie Camera, dir. Dziga Vertov (Ussr 1929) [pictured]Shoah, dir. Claude Lanzmann (France 1985)Sans soleil, dir. Chris Marker (France 1982)Night and Fog, dir. Alain Resnais (France 1955)The Thin Blue Line, dir. [link...
- 8/1/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
More than 200 critics and 100 filmmakers take part in poll.
Dziga Vertov’s silent film Man with a Movie Camera (1929) has topped Sight & Sound magazine’s first major poll of the world’s best documentaries.
More than 1,000 films were nominated by 200 critics and 100 filmmakers with more than 100 voting for Man with a Movie Camera.
Vertov’s surrealist classic in which a man travels around a city with a camera documenting urban life was shot in Odessa, Kiev and Khadliv.
Vertov also topped the critics’ list of top doc filmmakers while Frederick Wiseman is number one according to his fellow directors.
Participating filmmakers included Kevin Macdonald, Walter Salles, Joshua Oppenheimer, James Toback, Asif Kapadia, Carol Morley and Mark Cousins.
Critics’ Top 10 documentariesMan with a Movie Camera, dir. Dziga Vertov (Ussr 1929) [pictured]Shoah, dir. Claude Lanzmann (France 1985)Sans soleil, dir. Chris Marker (France 1982)Night and Fog, dir. Alain Resnais (France 1955)The Thin Blue Line, dir. [link...
Dziga Vertov’s silent film Man with a Movie Camera (1929) has topped Sight & Sound magazine’s first major poll of the world’s best documentaries.
More than 1,000 films were nominated by 200 critics and 100 filmmakers with more than 100 voting for Man with a Movie Camera.
Vertov’s surrealist classic in which a man travels around a city with a camera documenting urban life was shot in Odessa, Kiev and Khadliv.
Vertov also topped the critics’ list of top doc filmmakers while Frederick Wiseman is number one according to his fellow directors.
Participating filmmakers included Kevin Macdonald, Walter Salles, Joshua Oppenheimer, James Toback, Asif Kapadia, Carol Morley and Mark Cousins.
Critics’ Top 10 documentariesMan with a Movie Camera, dir. Dziga Vertov (Ussr 1929) [pictured]Shoah, dir. Claude Lanzmann (France 1985)Sans soleil, dir. Chris Marker (France 1982)Night and Fog, dir. Alain Resnais (France 1955)The Thin Blue Line, dir. [link...
- 8/1/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Do you think Albert and David Maysles knew they were creating not just a documentary but launching cultural icons when they filmed the mesmerizing “Grey Gardens,” now available in a Criterion Blu-ray edition? The film about “Little Edie” and “Big Edie,” relatives of American royalty in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, became a cult phenomenon, inspiring a follow-up (which is included in this release), an award-winning fictionalized version of their story with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, and even a full-length musical.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
What is it about the Beales that fascinates us? It is a special kind of crazy that can be embraced this thoroughly and Little Edie & Big Edie were certainly unique characters, two self-obsessed socialites living in a dilapidated mansion in the Hamptons. Their lives, as brilliantly captured in “Grey Gardens” seemed so unique and so perfectly Hollywood and yet tragic at the same time. The genius of the Maysles was not to intrude,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
What is it about the Beales that fascinates us? It is a special kind of crazy that can be embraced this thoroughly and Little Edie & Big Edie were certainly unique characters, two self-obsessed socialites living in a dilapidated mansion in the Hamptons. Their lives, as brilliantly captured in “Grey Gardens” seemed so unique and so perfectly Hollywood and yet tragic at the same time. The genius of the Maysles was not to intrude,...
- 12/29/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 10, 2013
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The lives of Big Edie (top) and Little Edie Beale are revealed in Grey Gardens.
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis, in the 1976 documentary Grey Gardens.
The two “Edie Gals” manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
A remarkably intimate portrait, this movie by Albert and David Maysles (Salesman)—co-directed by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer—quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.
This special edition also features the 2006 follow-up to the film, The Beales of Grey Gardens, constructed from hours of extra footage in the filmmakers’ vaults.
Here’s a complete breakdown of the disc’s features:
• New 2K digital film restoration,...
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The lives of Big Edie (top) and Little Edie Beale are revealed in Grey Gardens.
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis, in the 1976 documentary Grey Gardens.
The two “Edie Gals” manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
A remarkably intimate portrait, this movie by Albert and David Maysles (Salesman)—co-directed by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer—quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.
This special edition also features the 2006 follow-up to the film, The Beales of Grey Gardens, constructed from hours of extra footage in the filmmakers’ vaults.
Here’s a complete breakdown of the disc’s features:
• New 2K digital film restoration,...
- 9/30/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
While you're enjoying Memorial Day Weekend, Indiewire has selected a number of films to help usher in the start of the summer vacation season for our latest curated Hulu Documentaries page. Watch all these docs for free now! This celebration of the beckoning call of summer begins with Bruce Brown's classic 1966 surfing film "The Endless Summer." Two men try to extend the season year-round by literally traveling around the world in the search of the perfect weather to keep surfing. Combined with a surfing music soundtrack, the popular film influenced countless imitators to go on similar journeys. For many New Yorkers seeking a summer getaway, the Hamptons are much more convenient than circumnavigating the planet. The location has been forever captured in the Maysles brothers' seminal 1975 portrait of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, "Grey Gardens," made with Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer. Thirty years later, previously unused.
- 5/27/2012
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
Grey Gardens
Directed by Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Muffie Meyer
1975, USA
Costume Designers: Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale & Edith Bouvier Beale
No journey in adventurous fashion choices is complete without a trip to the decaying East Hampton mansion where the Beales make their home. Little Edie in particular has a chaotic and yet completely realized sense of style. Head wraps, bold patterns and daring textural combinations are all a staple of her everyday wear. Form always rules over function, and a sweater could easily be a skirt or head-scarf in Little Edie’s world. Her costuming had a whimsical sense of play, reflecting her perfomatory nature.
The film veers a very fine line between celebration and exploitation: it seems you feel that these two women are off their rockers or merely eccentric iconoclasts. I personally side with the latter opinion, as the two seem to cognitively orchestrate...
Directed by Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Muffie Meyer
1975, USA
Costume Designers: Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale & Edith Bouvier Beale
No journey in adventurous fashion choices is complete without a trip to the decaying East Hampton mansion where the Beales make their home. Little Edie in particular has a chaotic and yet completely realized sense of style. Head wraps, bold patterns and daring textural combinations are all a staple of her everyday wear. Form always rules over function, and a sweater could easily be a skirt or head-scarf in Little Edie’s world. Her costuming had a whimsical sense of play, reflecting her perfomatory nature.
The film veers a very fine line between celebration and exploitation: it seems you feel that these two women are off their rockers or merely eccentric iconoclasts. I personally side with the latter opinion, as the two seem to cognitively orchestrate...
- 4/20/2011
- by Justine
- SoundOnSight
At an awards ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, Cinema Eye handed out honors to the best of this year’s documentary films. The top award, the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking, when to Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop, produced by Jaime D’Cruz. Laura Poitras was named Outstanding Director for The Oath, and Jeff Malmberg Outstanding Debut for his Marwencol. Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill won the first Filmmaker-sponsored Heterodox Award. One of the most moving moments of the night was a tribute to editor Karen Schmeer, who was killed last year in a hit-and-run, and one of the most inspiring was the Legacy Award given to Albert Maysles and Muffie Meyer. Maysles, who is 84, quipped, “There must be someone in the audience with money for my next 25 films. (The highlight of my evening was taking their picture and having Maysles correct my frame.
- 1/20/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens" will receive the second annual Legacy Award from the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Co-directors Albert Maysles, Muffie Meyer and Susan Froemke will receive the award at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image January 18. A taped broadcast of the event will air on the Documentary Channel January 30. "‘Grey Gardens’ stands as a testament to the collaborative nature of filmmaking,” said Cinema ...
- 1/6/2011
- Indiewire
The Hollywood Reporter has the list of this year's selections for the National Film Registry. Selected by the Library of Congress, these "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant will be preserved forever to ensure their availability for future generations of cineastes.
The roster this year runs the gamut, from early silents (like 1906's actuality "A Trip Down Market Street") to the avant-garde (like Larry's Jordan's 1969 collage film "Our Lady of the Sphere") to mainstream blockbusters (like disco hallmark "Saturday Night Fever"). Interestingly, there's quite a few contributions this year from major filmmakers who've recently passed away, from directors Irvin Kershner ("The Empire Strikes Back") and Blake Edwards ("The Pink Panther") to actor Leslie Nielsen ("Airplane!").
Here's the full list of the newly inducted members of the National Film Registry. All links will take you to their IMDb page (if you're interested in more detailed descriptions of all the films, you...
The roster this year runs the gamut, from early silents (like 1906's actuality "A Trip Down Market Street") to the avant-garde (like Larry's Jordan's 1969 collage film "Our Lady of the Sphere") to mainstream blockbusters (like disco hallmark "Saturday Night Fever"). Interestingly, there's quite a few contributions this year from major filmmakers who've recently passed away, from directors Irvin Kershner ("The Empire Strikes Back") and Blake Edwards ("The Pink Panther") to actor Leslie Nielsen ("Airplane!").
Here's the full list of the newly inducted members of the National Film Registry. All links will take you to their IMDb page (if you're interested in more detailed descriptions of all the films, you...
- 12/28/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Grey Gardens Dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer (1975) The longtime cult classic documentary Grey Gardens, which dove into the lives of Jackie Onassis' relatives, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Beale, had a sort of official mainstream zeitgeist moment in 2009, between a musical adaptation on Broadway and the fictionalized HBO Grey Gardens, which starred Drew Barrymore (who won the Emmy for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie) and Jessica Lange, and covered the span of their lives, from society beginnings to the filming of the documentary. That said, have you seen the documentary that started it all? Now you can. It's a fairly indescribable experience. "Big Edie," Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, and "Little Edie," Edith Bouvier Beale, were New York socialities from a wealthy family, the aunt and cousin to Jackie O, respectively. After Big Edie's husband left her, both Beales ended up living in...
- 9/10/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Apparently, if there is one thing that Hulu likes more than putting Criterion releases on their online streaming outlet, it’s taking the best documentaries from the collection in particular.
Just a week or so after the release of the Les Blank directed Fitzcarraldo documentary, Burden Of Dreams, onto their website, they have picked up not one, but two stunning films, in the form of both Grey Gardens and The Beales Of Grey Gardens.
Both films look at the lives of aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, “Big” Edie and “Little” Edie Beale. The pair of films are also helmed by the fantastic duo of Albert and David Maysles, and also gives a deep look into the world that was Grey Gardens. “Big” and “Little” Edie had a relationship that could be at some points loving, and at others completely full of anger, all while living in a horribly...
Just a week or so after the release of the Les Blank directed Fitzcarraldo documentary, Burden Of Dreams, onto their website, they have picked up not one, but two stunning films, in the form of both Grey Gardens and The Beales Of Grey Gardens.
Both films look at the lives of aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, “Big” Edie and “Little” Edie Beale. The pair of films are also helmed by the fantastic duo of Albert and David Maysles, and also gives a deep look into the world that was Grey Gardens. “Big” and “Little” Edie had a relationship that could be at some points loving, and at others completely full of anger, all while living in a horribly...
- 8/10/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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