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©1961, directed by Albert Maysles, USA/Kenya, 16mm, b&w, 10 mins
This early travelogue film, made in a Kenyan train station, captures an impromptu musical
performance. Some passengers eagerly join in while others sleep -- blissfully unaware of the performance taking place around them. |
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©1968, produced by Michael Mindlin, Jr., filmmakers the Maysles Brothers, 35mm, color,
86 mins
Filmed by the Maysles Brothers, Richard Leacock, and others in a newly peaceful Jerusalem three weeks after the Six Day War, this film follows Leonard Bernstein as he prepares to conduct Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony on Mt. Scopus. Clearly moved to be in the Holy Land, manylyrical montages are cut to the sounds of Bernstein’s rehearsals. |
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©1970, directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, 16mm, color, 90 mins
Called “the greatest rock film of the greatest rock and roll band,” this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour that lead up to the free concert at the Altamont Speedway in San Francisco. Before an estimated crowd of 300,000 people, the Stones headlined a free concert featuring Ike & Tina Turner, The Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Santana. Concerned about security, members of outlaw biker gang The Hell's Angels were asked to help maintain order. Instead, an atmosphere of fear and dread arose, leading ultimately to the stabbing death of a young, gun toting, fan by a member of the Hell's Angels. |
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©1974, a film by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, 16mm, color,
53 mins
Televised nationwide as part of the groundbreaking PBS series "Six American Families.", The Burks of Georgia tells the story of three generations of The Burks, a poor white family struggling to feed and clothe thirteen children, living in rural Georgia. •VIEW TRAILER >
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©1976, a film by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer,
Susan Froemke,16mm, color, 94 mins
Behind the walls of a once-grand East Hampton home, we meet Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter,
“Little Edie” – high society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.—thriving together amid the
decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. A most intimate portrait of
the unexpected, an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, Grey Gardens has become a cult classic and
established Little Edie as fashion icon and philosopher queen. |
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©1985, a film by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, 16mm, color, 57 mins
A backstage look at one of classical music's best-known yet least understood figures. Seiji Ozawa, music director of the Boston Symphony since 1973, became the first East Asian to succeed in a quintessentially Western art form. Remaining solidly Japanese in temperament and outlook, Ozawa captures the maestro in and out of performance—challenging the dichotomy of ‘East vs. West’ in his personal and professional life. |
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©1986, a film by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, 16mm, color, 58 mins
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Amsterdam Film Festival and Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, Christo in Paris explores Christo's escape from Bulgaria, his early years as a struggling artist, his romance with Jeanne-Claude and the fulfillment of a ten-year obsession: the wrapping of the Pont-Neuf in Paris. |
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