Grey Gardens / The Beales of Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens / The Beales of Grey Gardens

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. Thirty years later, the filmmakers revisited their landmark documentary with a sequel of sorts, The Beales of Grey Gardens, culled from hours of never-before-seen footage recently found in the filmmakers’ vaults.

Films In This Set

Special Features

DISC ONE: Grey Gardens

  • 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 hard of hearing

DISC TWO: The Beales of Grey Gardens

  • New digital transfer, approved by director Albert Maysles
  • New video introduction by Maysles
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Plus: A new essay by cultural critic Michael Musto

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Films In This Set

Grey Gardens / The Beales of Grey Gardens

Special Features

DISC ONE: Grey Gardens

  • 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 hard of hearing

DISC TWO: The Beales of Grey Gardens

  • New digital transfer, approved by director Albert Maysles
  • New video introduction by Maysles
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Plus: A new essay by cultural critic Michael Musto