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Albert Maysles
12 Dec 2002 by Matthew Linderman
Now (on PBS) had a great bit on filmmaker Albert Maysles recently. Check out these great Maysles video clips that are posted at the site. The most recent one is “Before I Leave” where Maysles asks a variety of people how they wanted to be remembered before they go for good.
Albert Maysles was teaching psychology at Boston University when he made his first film in the late 1950s, a study of mental institutions in the Soviet Union. He soon teamed up with his brother, David, to produce some of the most acclaimed, and controversial, documentaries of the latter half of the 20th century, including SALESMAN (about door-to-door bible salesmen in Boston), GIMME SHELTER (about the Rolling Stones’ 1969 tour and the killing of a spectator at Altamont), and GREY GARDENS (a portrait of a reclusive mother and daughter living in a decaying Long Island mansion).
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16 Dec 2002 | alisha said...
wow. funny as hell - the salesman reminded me of the jerky boys. a cross between Sol Rosenberg and the construction worker guy. The grandma was classic! My parents-in-law are like that. In fact a lot of old people are just like that.
