Grey Gardens

Filmmakers profile former socialites Edith Bouvier Beale and her 56-year-old daughter, Edie, now recluses in a decrepit New York mansion.

Release Date: 2001-08-14, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale high society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O. thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. Five years after Gimme Shelter, the Maysles unveiled this impossibly intimate portrait of the unexpected, an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, which has since become a cult classic and established Little Edie as fashion icon and philosopher queen. Grey Gardens is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1:33:1. This new digital transfer was created from a 35mm color reversal interpositive. Telecine supervisor: Chris Packham/BBC, London. This transfer was approved by Albert Maysles

Meet Big and Little Edie Bealehigh society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. An impossibly intimate portrait and an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, Albert and David Maysles's 1975 Grey Gardens has since become a cult classic and established Little Edie as fashion icon and philosopher queen.

Release Date: 2001-08-14, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 2006-12-05, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Out in East Hampton behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter Little Edie. Big and Little Edie are the aunt and first cousin of Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis and this documentary is a portrait of their unusual life together. When Little Edie left New York she left behind her dreams of stardom to take care of her aging mother and together they developed a unique relationship cloistered away in their fading glory. A stirring portrait by the pioneers of documentary filmmaking the Maysles Brothers.

Grey Gardens (criterion Collection) - Dvd - David Maysles,ellen Hovde,muffie Meyer,albert Maysles - Eccentric Families,mothers And Daughters, misfits And Outsiders

Biographical Documentary DVD - Albert and David Maysles, pioneers in the cinma vrit movement of documentary filmmaking, chose for their subjects of this film a mother and daughter with celebrity connections. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie (or, as they are called by the brothers, Big Edie and Little Edie) are aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In the early '70s, their 28-room mansion in Long Island's tony community of East Hampton was found to be a health hazard, and the two women, in their seventies and fifties, were threatened with eviction. Jacqueline Onassis paid for the house to be put in good order, and two years later, the Maysles paid the ladies a series of follow-up visits. This is not fly-on-the-wall filmmaking; the brother are sometimes shown on camera, and both women talk directly to them. Big Edie reminisces about her husband (from whom she has long been separated) and her youthful singing career, Little Edie ruminates over memories of her thwarted romances and confides that

DVDs. Grey Gardens

Biographical Documentary DVD - Albert and David Maysles, pioneers in the cinma vrit movement of documentary filmmaking, chose for their subjects of this film a mother and daughter with celebrity connections. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie (or, as they are called by the brothers, Big Edie and Little Edie) are aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In the early '70s, their 28-room mansion in Long Island's tony community of East Hampton was found to be a health hazard, and the two women, in their seventies and fifties, were threatened with eviction. Jacqueline Onassis paid for the house to be put in good order, and two years later, the Maysles paid the ladies a series of follow-up visits. This is not fly-on-the-wall filmmaking; the brother are sometimes shown on camera, and both women talk directly to them. Big Edie reminisces about her husband (from whom she has long been separated) and her youthful singing career, Little Edie ruminates over memories of her thwarted romances and confides that