Grey Gardens

Thursday, May 16, 2019

The screening on May 16 at 7pm will be followed by a book signing with Jerry Torre, groundskeeper of Grey Gardens himself, for his memoir of life with the Beales, The Marble Faun! Books will be available for purchase at IFC Center’s concession stand!

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen. – Janus Films

• Country USA
• Year 1976
• Running Time 94 minutes
• Distributor Janus
• Director Albert Maysles, David Maysles

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