Albert Maysles

Albert Maysles

Date of Birth: 26 Nov 1926

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 22 (Director)

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    Gimme Shelter
    A harrowing documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour, with much of the focus on the tragic concert at Altamont. (imdb)
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    Salesman
    Four relentless door-to-door salesmen deal with constant rejection, homesickness and inevitable burnout as they go across the country selling very expensive bibles to low-income Catholic families. (imdb)
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    Grey Gardens
    The Maysles brothers pay visits to Edith Bouvier Beale, nearing 80, and her daughter Edie. Reclusive, the pair live with cats and raccoons in Grey Gardens, a crumbling mansion in East Hampton... (imdb)
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    The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
    Maysles brothers documentary covering the first arrival of "Beatlemania" in the U.S., as well at the band's historical appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show." (imdb)
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    The Beales of Grey Gardens
    Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens. (imdb)
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    Islands
    Islands (1987) - TV Movie
    A film that further explores the artists' fusion of culture, environment and politics. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's fight for permission to surround eleven islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric, interwoven with their struggle to wrap the Pont-Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin. (imdb.com)
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    Christo in Paris
    This is the story of the quest of the artist Christo to wrap the famous Pont Neuf in France in fabric. It took Christo and his wife ten years to get permission from the Parisian government, and the project created a storm of dialogue throughout Paris. (imdb)
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    Muhammad and Larry
    A look at the events leading up to the world heavyweight championship between an aged Muhammad Ali and his undefeated, former sparring partner and ex-protege Larry Holmes. Includes a look at Ali's training camp and interviews with those around him.
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    Psychiatry in Russia
    Maysles first documentary covers some psychiatric hospitals in Russia.
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    Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic
    The Last Romantic is a documentary filmed at Vladimir Horowitz's townhouse on the Upper East Side of New York. It features many performances of some of the pieces of Horowitz's favorite repertoire, and also sheds light on his thoughts and opinions on music. During the film Horowitz often jokes and talks about his favorite composers: his friend Rachmaninoff, Chopin and the mysterious modern composer Scriabin. (en.wikipedia.org)
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    Christo\
    Short and to-the-point documentary covering Christo's first large public work - the bright neon-orange valley curtain in Colorado, which spanned the gulf between two small mountains. (imdb)
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    Running Fence
    Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop" performance art designed to question how we relate to art in the public sphere, especially when it's as oblique, non-political (at least, that is what he would claim), and neutral as running a fence through a landscape. (imdb)
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    Umbrellas
    The controversial story of the artist Christo's grand-scale environmental art project in Japan and California that ended in the tragic death of two of its spectators... (imdb)
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    The Gates
    A documentary on New York City's biggest public art project ever, an installation called "The Gates," by Christo and Jeanne Claude. (imdb)
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    The Love We Make
    In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Paul McCartney travels through the streets of New York and organizes a benefit concert. (imdb)
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    Iris
    A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel from legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles. (magpictures.com)
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    Meet Marlon Brando
    Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote the film, they find Brando unwilling to talk about it, instead he is more interested in larking about and turning on the charm when being interviewed by a former winner of the Miss USA competition. (imdb)
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    In Transit
    The Empire Builder is America's busiest long-distance train route, running from Chicago to Seattle. Throughout these corridors sit runaways, adventurers, and loners - a myriad of passengers waiting to see what their journey holds. A touching and honest observation, co-directed by the iconic Albert Maysles, In Transit breathes life into the long commute, and contemplates the unknowns that lie at our final destination.
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    Showman
    Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963). (themoviedb.com)
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    A Visit with Truman Capote
    Portrays an intimate meeting with renowned author Truman Capote. As a reporter interviews him in his beachfront home, Capote shares his "self-regarding" personality through hip philosophy and calculated jokes. He offers insights in an endearingly raspy voice about his latest book, In Cold Blood, which Capote declares to be part of a new genre, the "non-fiction novel." (mayslesfilms.com)
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    Get Yer Ya Ya\
    Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009) - Direct-to-Video
    GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! is a chronicle of The Rolling Stones' epic performance at Madison Square Garden in November 1969. Albert and David Maysles famously documented the Rolling Stones' 1969 U.S. tour in the feature documentary GIMME SHELTER, released in 1970.
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    30 for 30
    30 for 30 (2009) - TV Series
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