Celia contends that her mother never tried to turn her against her uncle. In fact, the only thing she recalls from the legal wrangling was having a hysterical fit because she thought her mother was ...

David and Al Maysles, together with Ricky Leacock, are working in that style of film-making which has become known as the Direct Cinema (in France it’s called Cinema-Verite). Until now, whenever one ...

Usually the legendary Maysles name itself would be enough attract the attention of documentary aficionados, but the disclosure that “Wild Blue Yonder” was made without the blessing of Celia’s uncle ...

The partnership of brothers David and Albert Maysles yielded classic documentaries like Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens, and Salesman. Two decades after David’s 1987 death, it’s also produced a family ...

Maysles presents his film “Salesman” at DOC NYC 2014. Here, Maysles is interviewed about his documentary “Salesman” (1968), which follows four traveling salesman who sell Bibles door-to-door in ...

Albert Maysles, the Emmy Award-winning documentarian who, with his brother, David, made intensely talked-about films including “Grey Gardens” and “Gimme Shelter” with their American version of cinema ...

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital. AAPG copy 39088015270705 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. 1. Christo's valley curtain (1974) / directed by the ...

Maysles and his late brother David made the 1976 film Grey Gardens, a study of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' relatives who lived in squalor in their decaying mansion. He died last week at age of 88.

The last film by documentary giant Albert Maysles gets a rare screening this week in New York. It's called In Transit, and it takes place entirely on the Empire Builder, a train that runs between ...

Last Friday, a day after Albert Maysles’ passing, Grey Gardens opened for a 40th Anniversary run at New York’s Film Forum. The new 2K digital restoration of the 1976 documentary, courtesy of Janus ...

A sizable portion of New York’s documentary filmmaking community was packed in at the Maysles Alumni Holiday Party at the A sizable portion of New York’s documentary filmmaking community was packed in ...