Film, Discussion and Book Signing
GREY GARDENS
The legendary documentary that inspired the Broadway show
and the HBO Movie starring Jessica Lange & Drew Barrymore!
Thursday, August 20 at 7:30pm
Special Guests: Filmmaker Albert Maysles
Authors Sara Maysles + Rebekah Maysles, Grey Gardens
$20 Members / $25 Public / Active Membership Will Be Checked
Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or
by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No refunds.
Grey Gardens is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Mother and daughter live in a world of their own behind the towering privets that surround their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion known as "Grey Gardens," a place so far gone that the local authorities once threatened to evict them for violating building and sanitation codes. The incident made national headlines – American royalty, living in squalor! For the Beales were nothing short of the upper crust. Mrs. Beale, a.k.a. "Big Edie," was a born aristocrat, sister of "Black Jack" Bouvier, Jackie O's father. "Little Edie" was an aspiring actress of striking beauty who put her New York life on hold to care for her mother - and never left her side again. Together they descended into a strange life of dependence and eccentricity that no one had ever shared until the Maysles arrived with their camera and tape recorder. The Beales were ready for their close-ups. Little Edie – a still-attractive woman at 56 – parades about coquettishly in her trademark improvised turbans, reminisces about her brilliant past, still hoping that her Big Chance and Big Romance are just around the corner. Big Edie, trained soprano in her bohemian days, trills romantic songs of yesteryear in a slightly wobbly, but still rich voice. The women bicker, prattle, and flirt like characters out of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. The film is a bittersweet love story, a record of the powerful and complex relationship between mother and daughter. —Marjorie Sweeney USA, 1974, 94 min., color
This Program is Curated by Dr. Jud Newborn
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Film and Discussion
THE GATES
Directed by Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, & Matthew Prinzing
Tuesday, August 25 at 7:30pm
Guest Speaker: Ken Wayne, Heckscher Museum
$9 Members / $12 Public / Active Membership Will Be Checked
Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or
by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No refunds.
Literally decades in the making, The Gates chronicles the intricate process of completing the 7,503 saffron-colored gates and fabric panels used in Christo and Jean Claude’s beautiful, large-scale art installation "The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005." Directed by Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens), David Maysles and Matthew Prinzing, the documentary captures the soaring majesty of the project, along with its impact on thousands of amazed (and occasionally skeptical) witnesses who flocked to snowy Central Park to experience it over the course of 16 days, Feb. 12-27, 2005.
USA, 2005, 90 min.
