Truth or Vérité?

Celia Maysles looks her father's legacy head-on in Wild Blue Yonder

"...A few backstory "program notes" for Celia Maysles' Wild Blue Yonder: Until he died suddenly 21 years..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Stories That Tell Themselves

In town for the Texas Documentary Tour, Albert Maysles -- the man behind such famous documentaries as Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens -- talks about his fierce philosophy of direct cinema.

"...Albert Maysles is one of the kahunas of cinéma vérité --..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Through a Lens Lovingly

A SXSW retrospective honors the work of legendary documentarian Albert Maysles.

"...Al Maysles and his brother David, who died in 1987, were..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

You Read It Here First

Chron contributor Anne S. Lewis' 2000 piece on Albert Maysles gets the book treatment

"...Albert Maysles is a living legend, one-part of arguably the most..."

March 29, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Brother's Keeper

This documentary is about the unlikeliest of subjects: an alleged mercy killing between a pair of barely socialized, virtually illiterate, unkempt, unhygienic, slow-witted, never-married bachelors.

"...is most in keeping with the documentary tradition of Maysles Films where both the filmmakers worked prior to and..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Primary

"...Directed by: Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Terrence Mccartney Filgate and D.A. Pennebaker. If cinéma vérité..."

Feb. 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Family Fractured

Albert Maysles responds to his niece's film

"...To call the Maysles Brothers (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens) iconic in the world..."

March 2, 2008 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

DVD Watch: Potential-Gift Edition

"...William Greaves and the Maysles Brothers are mentioned a grand total of one time..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Vow

A woman awakes from a coma with severe memory loss, forcing her husband to win her love all over again. Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum star.

"...Bouvier Beale and her daughter "Little Edie," whom the Maysles brothers immortalized in their 1975 documentary of the same..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

Jonathan Demme dreams us back to the golden age of performance films, in which Neil Young unfolds his latest album Prairie Wind in concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

"...remember it in slow motion. D.A. Pennebaker and the Maysles brothers schooled future music documentarians that right place/right time..."

March 17, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Sneak Peek at SXSW Film 2008

The first announcements from SXSW Film 08 are trickling in

"...Moore and Michael Caine; and Wild Blue Yonder, Celia Maysles' controversial doc about her father and uncle, documentary giants..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'Tarnation' Sensation

Jonathan Caouette's inexplicably perfect documentary of growing up gay in Texas is the astounding new face of DIY moviemaking

"...and Paul Morrisey's Factory films, D.A. Pennebaker and the Maysles brothers' documentaries, The Blair Witch Project – all of..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

50 Years of Rolling Stones

Today, I’m as old as rock & roll itself

"...decade. Look, there’s Stones cleaner Sam Cutler from the Maysles brothers’ landmark documentary of the NorCal natural disaster, Gimme..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

This Kickstarter Wraps Before You Know It

A local queer filmmaker could use a hand to get his work seen

"...was done with the greatest kindness, back when the Maysles brothers showed the world the love and tenderness to..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Qmmunity Post

The Rolling Stones

Reissues

"...bonus tracks plus offstage footage left out of the Maysles brothers' infamous documentary Gimme Shelter. Better is a B.B...."

Dec. 18, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

God Is My Co-Producer

AFS Documentary Tour presents Audience of One

"...story a nonjudgmental, fly-on-the-wall vérité rendition in the best Maysles Brothers tradition and to be completely "transparent with them,"..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Video Rewind: 7 X 5

"...The Maysles brothers' seminal account of the tour and studio sessions..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature

Short Cuts

Cinemaker Co-op says bring on the healing, and classes galore.

"...UT Campus (25th and Whitis). Lighthill's credits include the Maysles Brothers' doc Gimme Shelter, Berkeley in the Sixties, and..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Of Moose and Movies

Nine days and nights at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...Dersu Uzala, the French romantic comedy Cousin, Cousine, the Maysles brothers Grey Gardens, and Wim Wenders' Kings of the..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Ordinary Folk

Producer Fred Miller remembers the making of this antiwar documentary, which focuses on the music of folk legends Peter, Paul & Mary.

"...Ron Perryman. Their heroes were D.A. Pennebaker and the Maysles brothers. I had never heard of any of these..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Gimme Shelter

This film, which captures that awful moment at Altamont, is a documentary that seemingly captures the very moment when the peace-and-love generation lost its naivete and innocence.

"...Directed by: David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin. Starring: the Rolling Stones,..."

Sept. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Hodgepodge of Happenings

"...has inspired as many iterations as Albert and David Maysles' Grey Gardens, I'm hard-pressed to name it. The 1975..."

April 17, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...a pair of short films by Albert and David Maysles (Salesman, Gimme Shelter): Meet Marlon Brando (1965) and What's..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Pills in the hand are worth a mouthful of Bush and some Texas Film Hall of Fame teasers are the tip of this week's dish iceberg.

"...of the magnificently bizarre documentary Grey Gardens by the brothers Maysles. Both the Edies lived their twisted lives in..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

What's Happening: The Beatles in the USA

"...Directed by: Albert And David Maysles. The Maysles' cameras document the Beatles' crazy first week..."

Feb. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let the People Speak

Documentarians Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky

"...1992 documentary Brother's Keeper about a quartet of elderly brothers in upstate New York. This extraordinary film examines the..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

John Singleton and Chris Cooper to be honored

"...Brian Helgeland's take on the British gangsters the Kray brothers, Legend, which stars Tom Hardy playing both brothers. The..."

Sept. 30, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

The Wight Stuff

Message to Love: This Ain't No Woodstock

"...won the Oscar for best documentary. That same year, brothers Albert & David Maysles released Gimme Shelter, hailed for..."

June 20, 1997 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez