Grey Gardens / Janus Films, a Maysles Films Inc. production ; producers, David Maysles, Albert Maysles ; directors, David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer and Susan Froemke.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: GRE300 | Home Vision EntertainmentSeries: Criterion collection ; 123.Publication details: [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Entertainment, [2001], ©1976.Description: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0780024303
- 9780780024304
- Grey Gardens (Motion picture : 1975)
- Directors of photography, Albert Maysles, David Maysles ; editors, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Susan Foemke.
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Main Library | DVD | 920.72 G843 | Available | 33111009082765 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Albert and David Maysles, pioneers in the cinéma vérité 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 brothers 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 she has to get out of Grey Gardens (the name of their estate), although she has been living there since 1952; and the two women pick at each other for transgressions past and present. The women share their home with at least five cats and several raccoons, for whom Little Edie leaves out food in the attic. They are not recluses; they host a modest 79th birthday party for Big Edie, they employ a gardener, and they are often visited by Jerry, a young handyman/lost soul whom Little Edie calls "the Marble Faun," after the Nathaniel Hawthorne story. "It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present," Little Edie says near the beginning of the film, and it becomes clear that both women are much more comfortable reliving their respective youths (in some ways, Little Edie has never left hers) than facing their rather bleak old and middle age. ~ Tom Wiener, Rovi
DVD, Dolby digital mono. 1.33:1.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Edith Bouvier Beale, Edie Beale.
Directors of photography, Albert Maysles, David Maysles ; editors, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Susan Foemke.
DVD release of the 1976 motion picture.
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Special features: New transfer; audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, and associate producer Susan Froemke; excerpts from recorded interview with Little Edie Beale by Kathryn G. Graham for Interview magazine (1976); video interviews with fashion designers Todd Olham and John Bartlett on the continuing influence of Grey Gardens; hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs; trailers; filmographies.