The Beales Of Grey Gardens (1976)
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The Beales Of Grey Gardens (1976)
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Ask at your video store, or buy it on Amazon
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Read a New York Times review here
Every fashion designer is familiar with, and more often than not inspired by, Little Edie Beale’s incredible outfits or as she would say “revolutionary costumes” in the original Maysels brothers 1976 documentary Grey Gardens. Thirty years later there’s abrilliant Broadway musical (my favourite track when I saw it last monthwas Big Edie singing ‘Jerry Loves my Corn’) and an upcoming Hollywood movie. But for purists the great news is the follow up documentary released in December last year from the original film-makers and cut from footage in their archives. It’s sure to satisfy every fan with an encore of Little Edie and Big Edie’s spine chilling bitterness, incompleteness and self-destructiveness but, as with the original, behind the name calling and the finger pointing there’s always revolutionary style and genuine affection.
Format: DVD
Mood: Nostalgic
Keywords: Documentary, Edie Beale, Fashion
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