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The Gates

A documentary on New York City’s biggest public art project ever, an installation called “The Gates” by Christo and Jeanne Claude.

NR

5.3

2008 Documentary 98 min Play

7.3

The Beales of Grey Gardens

Mother and daughter - Big Edie and Little Edie Beale - live with six cats in a crumbling house in East Hampton. Little Edie, in her 50s, who wears scarves and bright colors, sings, mugs for the camera, and talks to Al and David Maysles, the filmmakers. Big Edie, in her 70s, recites poetry, comments on her daughter's behavior, and sings "If I Loved You" in fine voice. She talks in short sentences; her daughter in volumes. The film is episodic: friends visit, there's a small fire in the ...

NR

7.3

2006 Documentary 91 min Play

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Horowitz: The Last Romantic

A stimulating study which features concert footage and interviews with the master pianist. Includes many of his favorite pieces.

NR

0

1985 Documentary min Play

5.8

Running Fence

Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop" performance art designed to question how we relate to art in the public sphere, especially when it's as oblique, non-political (at least, that is what he would claim), and neutral as running a fence through a landscape.

NR

5.8

1977 Documentary 58 min Play

7.2

Grey Gardens

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

PG

7.2

1976 Documentary 95 min Play

6.4

Christo’s Valley Curtain

Oscar nominated documentary about the largest man-made curtain in the world as "sculpture".

NR

6.4

1974 Documentary 26 min Play

7.5

Gimme Shelter

The landmark documentary about the tragically ill-fated Rolling Stones free concert at Altamont Speedway on December 6, 1969. Only four months earlier, Woodstock defined the Love Generation; now it lay in ruins on a desolate racetrack six miles outside of San Francisco.

NR

7.5

1970 Documentary 90 min Play

7.5

Salesman

This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.

G

7.5

1969 Documentary 90 min Play

7

What’s Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.

An account of John, Paul, George and Ringo's first week in America. The Maysles follow the Fab Four for five days, from crazed airport reception to press conferences to backstage at the Ed Sullivan Show to hotel-room hanging out to their horrified encounter with the legendary deejay Murray the K to their equally frenzied homecoming.

NR

7

1964 Documentary 81 min Play

6

Showman

Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963).

NR

6

1963 53 min Play