Grey Gardens Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
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- DVD Release Date: 12/05/2006
- Original Release: 1976
- Sales Rank: 5,285
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Scenes
Features
Disc 1: New digital transfer of Grey Gardens; audio commentary by filmmakers Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, and Susan Froemke; excerpts from a recorded interview with Little Edie Beale by Kathryn G. Graham for Interview magazine (1976); video interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the influence of Grey Gardens; behind-the-scenes photographs; trailers; filmographies.
Disc 2: New digital transfer of The Beales of Grey Gardens, approved by director Albert Maysles; new video introduction by Maysles; a new essay by cultural critic Michael Musto.
Scene Index
Disc #1 -- Grey Gardens
1. "The Cat Got Out!" [2:47]
2. "The Best Costume for Today" [3:05]
3. Mother and Daughter [3:18]
4. The Libra Man [2:16]
5. Photo Album [4:21]
6. "Tea for Two" [6:03]
7. "Try, Really Try" [6:03]
8. A Staunch Character [1:41]
9. Young Edie [5:35]
10. The Marching Song [6:46]
11. "The Night and the Music" [5:21]
12. The Marble Faun [4:27]
13. Raccoons [3:15]
14. A Strict Hand [2:35]
15. "I'll Take a Dog Any Day" [3:13]
16. True Talents [4:09]
17. Birthday Party [6:20]
18. Mother's Little Girl [1:53]
19. Performance [1:48]
20. "Don't Throw Bouquets at Me" [3:44]
21. Jerry's Moving In [2:17]
22. The Pink Room [8:04]
23. "It's My Mother's House" [4:10]
24. End Credits [1:35]
25. Color Bars [5:07]
1. Boarding School to Movie Star [2:28]
2. Disruptions [1:34]
3. Omissions [1:58]
4. The Marble Faun [2:01]
5. Fixing up the House [4:06]
6. The Maysles, Grey Gardens, and New York City [3:40]
7. The Raids [3:28]
8. Unusual Suspects [4:48]
9. Regrets [1:40]
10. An Old-Fashioned Girl [6:23]
11. Damaged [8:35]
Disc #2 -- The Beales of Grey Gardens
1. "You Ought to Be in Pictures" [3:52]
2. No One Can Play Edith Beale [2:39]
3. Little Edie's Past [5:13]
4. Big Edie Takes a Picture [1:11]
5. "Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree" [1:29]
6. Horoscopes [4:23]
7. Jerry Torre [9:03]
8. "V.M.I. March" (The First Listen) [1:53]
9. Cats [5:29]
10. Lois Wright [10:37]
11. The Fire [4:23]
12. "Spring Will Be a Little Late" [1:01]
13. "Around the World in 80 Days" [1:22]
14. Big Edie's Poetry Recital [2:15]
15. Flirtation ("Hot or Sweet") [5:47]
16. Religion [5:01]
17. Politics and War [3:55]
18. The Beach [8:48]
19. "If I Loved You" [1:07]
20. The Fashion Show [3:57]
21. The Last Reel [5:33]
22. Another Winter [2:03]
23. Color Bars [:00]
Editorial Reviews
Albert and David Maysles, pioneers in the cinéma vérité movement of documentary filmmaking, chose for their subjects of this film a mother and daughter with celebrity connections. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie (or, as they are called by the brothers, Big Edie and Little Edie) are aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In the early '70s, their 28-room mansion in Long Island's tony community of East Hampton was found to be a health hazard, and the two women, in their seventies and fifties, were threatened with eviction. Jacqueline Onassis paid for the house to be put in good order, and two years later, the Maysles paid the ladies a series of follow-up visits. This is not fly-on-the-wall filmmaking; the brother are sometimes shown on camera, and both women talk directly to them. Big Edie reminisces about her husband (from whom she has long been separated) and her youthful singing career, Little Edie ruminates over memories of her thwarted romances and confides that she has to get out of Grey Gardens (the name of their estate), although she has been living there since 1952, and the two women pick at each other for transgressions past and present. The women share their home with at least five cats and several raccoons, for whom Little Edie leaves out food in the attic. They are not recluses; they host a modest 79th birthday party for Big Edie, they employ a gardener, and they are often visited by Jerry, a young handyman/lost soul whom Little Edie calls "the Marble Faun," after the Nathaniel Hawthorne story. "It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present," Little Edie says near the beginning of the film, and it becomes clear that both women are much more comfortable reliving their respective youths (in some ways, Little Edie has never left hers), than facing their rather bleak old and middle age. Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide
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