Please join us at Hallwalls for a late night screening (10pm) of The Maysles’ companion piece to their cult classic GREY GARDENS, with never-before-seen footage! Whether or not you’ve seen the original documentary, this collection of footage will mesmerize and enthrall you.
iWhen the Maysles Brothers released their masterwork “Grey Gardens” some 30 years ago, Roger Ebert wrote about the film and its subjects, Edith and Edie Beale, saying that “… a slow disintegration has set in; rooms of their mansion and areas of their lives have been closed off, one at a time, left to the forages of raccoons and memories.”
When Albert Maysles recently opened his film vault and realized there was enough unseen footage to create a feature-length follow-up to the classic documentary, those memories were gently reawakened. “The Beales of Grey Gardens” is made up entirely of this precious footage, and in the spirit of both The Maysles and The Beales, the images are left to speak for themselves – no interviews, no voiceovers, just the pictures and sounds of life as it unfolded for two eccentric women who insisted on living it their way.i Jonny Lehan
Sat. Aug 19 at 10 pm
HALLWALLS 341 Delaware Ave.
THE BEALES OF GREY GARDENS (1976 – 2006, 86 min.)
$7 gen, $5 students/seniors, $4 members