Grey Gardens / The Beales of Grey Gardens
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Grey Gardens
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The Beales of Grey Gardens
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Grey Gardens
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.
The Beales of Grey Gardens
The 1976 cinema vérité classic Grey Gardens, which captured in remarkable close-up the lives of the eccentric East Hampton recluses Big and Little Edie Beale, has spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical, to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation. The filmmakers then went back to their vaults of footage to create part two, The Beales of Grey Gardens, a tribute both to these indomitable women and to the original landmark documentary’s legions of fans, who have made them American counterculture icons.
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- Audio commentary for Grey Gardens, featuring Albert Maysles and codirectors Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, along with associate producer Susan Froemke
- New video introduction for The Beales of Grey Gardens by Albert Maysles
- Audio excerpts from a 1976 interview with Little Edie Beale, conducted by Kathryn G. Graham
- Insert featuring an essay by Michael Musto
- Interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the continuing influence of Grey Gardens
- Behind-the-scenes photographs
- Trailers
- Insert featuring an essay by Hilton Als
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The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the original 16mm magnetic tracks, and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle. The Dolby Digital 1.0 signal will be directed to the center channel on surround sound systems, but some viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for wider dispersal of the mono sound.