David Maysles
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Albert (born November 26, 1926, Boston, Massachusetts) and David Maysles (rhymes with "hazels", born 10 January 1932, Boston, Massachusetts) were a documentary filmmaking team whose cinéma vérité works include Salesman (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (1976). Their 1964 film on The Beatles forms the backbone of the DVD, The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit. Several Maysles films document art projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude over a three-decade period, from 1974 when Christo's Valley Curtain was nominated for an Academy Award to 2005 when The Gates headlined New York's Tribeca Film Festival.
David Maysles, the younger brother, died of a stroke on January 3, 1987, in New York. Albert Maysles graduated in 1949 with a BA from Syracuse University and later earned a masters degree at Boston University. Albert has continued to make films on his own since his brother's death. Jean-Luc Godard once called Albert Maysles "the best American cameraman". In 2005 Maysles was given a lifetime achievement award at the Czech film festival AFO (Academia Film Olomouc). He is working on his own autobiographical documentary.
In 2005 he founded the Maysles Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides training and apprenticeships to underprivileged individuals. Albert is a patron of Shooting People, a filmmakers' community.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.093 |
Birthday | 1931-01-10 |
Place of Birth | Brookline, Massachusetts, USA |
Also Known As | 데이빗 메이즐스, 데이비드 메이즐스, 데이비드 메이슬리스, 데이빗 메이슬리스, |
1970
Gimme Shelter
7.3/170
A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous an...
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Gimme Shelter
2006
The Beales of Grey Gardens
7.3/33
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 sca...
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The Beales of Grey Gardens
1976
Grey Gardens
7.3/220
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate....
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Grey Gardens
1969
The Maysles Brothers
5/4
The Newsweek critic, Jack Kroll, interviews Albert and David Maysles about their new film, Salesman (1968).
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The Maysles Brothers
2007
Wild Blue Yonder
0/0
A portrait of the late documentarian David Maysles by his daughter, Celia.
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