Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens

DVD - 2001

Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.

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Subjects
Beale, Edith Bouvier, > d. 1977.
Beale, Edie.
Mothers and daughters > New York > East Hampton > Biography.
Recluses > New York > East Hampton > Biography.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Entertainment [2001], c1976.
Language
English
Other Authors
David Maysles (-), Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke, Edith Bouvier Beale, d. 1977., Edie Beale
Item Description
Videodisc release of the 1976 motion picture.
Special features: New transfer; audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, and associate producer Susan Froemke; excerpts from recorded interview with Little Edie Beale by Kathryn G. Graham for Interview magazine (1976); video interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the continuing influence of Grey Gardens; hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs; trailers; filmographies.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (DVD)(95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Dolby digital mono. 1.33:1.
Production Credits
Directors of photography, Albert Maysles, David Maysles ; editors, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Susan Foemke.
ISBN
9780780024304
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

The iconic 1976 documentary portrait of the Beales of Grey Gardens is now more complete with this feature-rich Blu-ray release. Edith Beale and her daughter, Edie, relatives of the well-connected Bouvier family (yes, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy for one), are societal leftovers living in a disturbingly rundown version of their once great mansion in East Hampton, NY. The mind of mother "Big Edie" (1895-1977) is often locked in a rosily remembered past, filled with songs and costumes of the 1920s, while she ignores the squalor of her home. "Little Edie" (1917-2002) grew up privileged but was denied the opportunity to escape her gilded cage and is now left with no one but her mother in her life. The film is sad, funny, bizarre, horrifying, and touching. You are not likely to forget the two -Edies. This Blu-ray version is a perfect digital transfer and also includes the follow-up The Beales of Grey Gardens, audio excerpts from an interview with Little Edie, trailers, and more. VERDICT Very highly recommended for all collections.-Ellen Druda, Half Hollow Hills Community Lib., Dix Hills, NY (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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