Salesman1969
Both picked by Seth Meyers in the Criterion Closet, both on Neil LaBute’s Top 10, both directed by Albert Maysles and David Maysles, and both with commentary by Albert Maysles
David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer
Grey Gardens
United States / English / 1975 / 1h 35m
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №123
- Commentary
- 1 track on the Channel player
Synopsis
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive relatives of Jackie Onassis. The two 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. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.
