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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' 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.System Requirements:Running Time: 185 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE
"[1] ...a unique look at family and fame." Mike Pinsky, DVD Verdict
"[2] Little Edie and Big Edie flood the Maysles brothers' camera with their oddball antics and batty conversation." Nathan Lee, New York Times
Editor's Note
Out in East Hampton, behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds, there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter Little Edie. Big and Little Edie are the aunt and first cousin of Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis, and this documentary is a portrait of their unusual life together. When Little Edie left New York, she left behind her dreams of stardom to take care of her aging mother, and together they developed a unique relationship, cloistered away in their fading glory. A stirring portrait by the pioneers of documentary filmmaking, the Maysles Brothers.
| Features | Audio Commentary By Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer & Susan Froemke | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Behind-The-Scenes Photographs | | Excerpts From A Recorded Interview With Little Edie Beale | | Filmographies | | Interactive Menus | | New Digital Transfer | | New Essay By Cultural Critic Michael Musto | | New Video Introduction By Maysles | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English | | Trailers | | Video Interviews With Fashion Designers Todd Oldham & John Bartlett |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 12/5/2006 |
| Running Time: 185 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1976 | | Catalog ID: 1629DDVD | | UPC: 00715515017923 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew | 'Big' Edie Beale - [Both] Featuring | | 'Little' Edie Beale - [Both] Featuring | | Albert Maysles - [Both] Director | | David Maysles - [Both] Director | | Jerry Torre - [Both] Featuring | | Lois Wright - [Both] Featuring |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...These sad, bickering, mutually dependent women are like two Tennessee Williams heroines, acting out a real-life drama....It's almost impossible to look away..." 07/27/2002 p.52Sight and Sound
"[E]xtraordinary....[The Beales] turn out to be natural performers who are thrilled to have finally found an audience." 07/01/2007 p.86 Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
[1] The film was made almost by accident. Albert and David Maysles, the directors of such documentaries as "Salesman" and "Gimme Shelter," were approached, by the two Bouvier sisters, Jacqueline Onassis and Lee Radziwell. Would the Maysles like to make a movie about the Bouviers? They might. Jackie and Lee supplied them with information about the family, including their two reclusive cousins in East Hampton, NY The Maysles shot, on and off, for several months. Then they reviewed their footage and decided there wasn't a movie in Jackie and Lee - but there seemed to be one in Edith and Edie. - Roger Ebert
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