Filmmaker Albert Maysles screens & discusses his work

Apr 10, 2008

One of America's foremost non-fiction filmmakers, Albert Maysle, along with his brother David (1932-1987), is recognized as a pioneer of direct cinema, the distinctly American version of French cinema verite. Their seminal early films Salesman (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970), and Grey Gardens (1976) became cult classics and are still finding new rapturous audiences. On the occasion of the publication of A Maysles Scrapbook: Photographs/Cinemagraphs/Documents, Maysles screens selections from filmed portraits of Orson Welles, Marlon, Brando, and Truman Capote, and takes audience questions.