Grey Gardens

Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer

United States

1976

94 minutes

Color

1.33:1

English

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Synopsis

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. An impossibly intimate portrait and an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, Albert and David Maysles’s 1976 Grey Gardens quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.

Cast

Edith Bouvier Beale
Her daughter Edie

Credits

DirectorAlbert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer
Associate producerSusan Froemke
Filmed byAlbert Maysles and David Maysles
EditingEllen Hovde, Susan Froemke and Muffie Meyer
SoundLee Dichter/Photo-Mag

Disc Features

  • New digital transfer
  • Audio commentary by filmmakers Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, and Susan Froemke
  • Excerpts from a recorded interview with Little Edie Beale by Kathryn G. Graham for Interview magazine (1976)
  • Video interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the influence of Grey Gardens
  • Behind-the-scenes photographs
  • Trailers
  • Filmographies
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired

From the Current

Color Us Edies!

Aug 3, 2009

Have we found the perfect way to while away those lazy beach days at your Hamptons getaway, and pay homage to everyone’s favorite beach recluses, Big and Little Edie Beale, at the same time: Grey Gardens collectible coloring books! This . . .

Summer 2009 Cineaste: Bardem, Maysles

Jun 25, 2009

Robert Koehler takes a long “second look” at Death of a Cyclist in the summer 2009 issue of Cineaste, sizing up Juan Antonio Bardem’s 1955 political melodrama in terms of Spain’s national identity and the legacy of neorealism. Check it out on the magazine’s http://www . . .

Restocking Grey Gardens!

Apr 19, 2009

Big and Little Edie fans have been coming in droves to take advantage of our Grey Gardens $5-off sale. To such an extent, indeed, that we’ve temporarily sold out of our two-disc box set, including both the original film and the . . .

Garden Variety

Apr 16, 2009

If you’re feeling symptoms of Edie-itis lately—wearing sweaters and towels as kerchiefs, doing impromptu soft-shoes around the house . . .

Notes on Grey Gardens

by Hilton Als Sep 3, 2001

In 1998, I interviewed “Little” Edie Beale, the surviving star of Grey Gardens, one of the Maysles’ numerous masterworks (Gimme Shelter, Meet Marlon Brando, and With Love From Truman are equal in technical and emotional . . .

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