A Family Fractured
Albert Maysles responds to his niece's film
By Kimberley Jones, 4:28PM, Sun. Mar. 2, 2008
To call the Maysles Brothers (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens) iconic in the world of documentary filmmaking is a little bit like calling the sun yellow, the grass green, the price of oil outrageous... Well, you get our point. So it was a particularly ballsy move on the part of Celia Maysles to pick up a camera and dig into the backstory of her deceased father David and somewhat-estranged uncle Albert.
We haven't seen her new film, Wild Blue Yonder, yet, but we hear Al doesn't come off that great in it... and apparently, Al agrees. "[A]s you see in the film, I come off as the bad guy," he told The Reeler in a piece published two weeks ago. (Thanks to SpoutBlog for the link.)
Check out the Chronicle's SXSW Film issue (on the streets and the web next Thursday) for Anne S. Lewis' interview with Celia Maysles, and about a gadjillion other SXSW Film-related pieces.
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