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Albert Maysles

May 2022

  • Down the rabbit hole composite image

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links a 2001 murder to Donovan and Claire Danes?

    With cult true-crime story The Staircase returning as a miniseries, take a dive down the rabbit hole with some British folk and an Oscar nod

June 2018

  • Photographer and writer Peter Beard and socialite Lee Radziwill feature in Olsson’s new film.

    That Summer review – Grey Gardens just keeps on giving

    Swedish documentary director Göran Hugo Olsson revisits Maysles brothers territory and uncovers lost footage of the American mother and daughter eccentrics

April 2016

  • Still from Grey Gardens

    Grey Gardens: rarely seen images from the film about the eccentric Beale family

    The Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary about “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale – ageing, isolated relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis – has become a cultural phenomenon, with a musical and a TV film reconstruction already produced. Here are a selection of photographs from the celebrated film

August 2015

  • iris

    Iris review – vibrant sartorial documentary

    Iris Apfel, the beloved 93-year-old New York fashion icon, is a fitting subject for Albert Maysles’s penultimate film

May 2015

  • The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act of Killing, will receive its UK premiere at the festival.

    Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Nyman and Monty Python set for Sheffield Doc/Fest

    This year’s documentary festival, which runs in June, will feature screenings of 150 shorts and features, as well as in-conversation events and masterclasses

April 2015

  • In Transit

    First look review
    In Transit review: Albert Maysles' final film snoozes en route to no destination

    The last movie by the late documentarian is about the Chicago to Seattle railroad and is actually slightly duller than you might imagine

March 2015

  • When the Beatles went to the US for the first time, Albert Maysles and his brother, David, brilliant

    Letter: Albert Maysles’ Beatles films were an enduring relic of their fabled early years

  • Iris Apfel

    Fashion icon celebrated in final film by Albert Maysles

June 2011

  • Albert Maysles, second right, with brother David, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts in 1969

    Albert Maysles: Stones, socialites and monsters

    Albert Maysles, the godfather of documentaries, tells Danny Leigh the secret of his success

September 2008

  • Film talk
    'The eye of the cameraman should be the eye of the poet': an interview with Albert Maysles

    Daniel Tapper talks love and propaganda with documentary maker Albert Maysles
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