David Maysles

“Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway” is a documentary about a Broadway musical that is based on a documentary. If that has a certain snake-eating-tail improbability to it, well, the Grey Gardens story of two eccentric former...

Our strange story begins in 1973 and, against all oddball odds, continues Tuesday at 10p.m. on PBS. First, Lee Bouvier Radziwill - kid sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and aunt of the possible next U.S. senator from New York, Caroline Bouvier...

IN CASE YOU haven't noticed, documentaries are hot. No longer the domain of university film leagues and vintage un-P.C. jokes — "How many lesbians does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to turn the bulb and 20 to make a documentary about it" &#...

It's the holiday season and time for film, TV and music distributors to pump out those box sets, many of which are just repackaging of already released stuff - the industry's equivalent of re-gifting. But there are also some real keepers in the mix, such...

3 stars (out of four) Watching the two Maysles brothers documentaries about Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie Beale-- the 1976 classic "Grey Gardens" and its 2006 sequel "The Beales of Grey Gardens"--is a bit like wandering into a slice of life...

If an enterprising composer were to pen a ballad about the coming theater season, he could call it "Memory," because so much of what's stagebound has an air of familiarity. Again, a gorgeous movie star is making her Broadway debut, though it's Julianne...

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, have finally made it to Broadway - and what a welcome addition they are. That their big break comes long after these world-class eccentrics were alive to bask in stardom is just one of the twisted, tender...

Yes, it does seem like the beginning of a whole new world when you see The Beatles' landmark "Ed Sullivan Show" appearances in the context of the live 1964 CBS-TV hour during which the mop-topped four made their big American splash. DVD finally makes...

When, if ever, will The Beatles sound less like today, and more like yesterday? This month marks the 40th anniversary of The Beatles' arrival in America and their historic appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and the public seems as entranced by the...

1. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Richard Lester; 1964) 4 stars No movie of the 1960s catches that era's exuberance more than Lester's black-and-white Beatlemania saga. Framed as a comically fictionalized day in the life of the Fab Four, it's one of the most...

Friday August 14, 1998      One of the strangest documentaries ever, "Grey Gardens" if anything looks stranger today than when it was originally released in 1976.      Filmed by Albert and David Maysles, "Grey Gardens" is a prime example of what the...

Each year, hundreds of movies open in Chicago's regular first-run theaters -- and those are the films that dominate most "10 best" lists here and elsewhere. But each year, hundreds of films also open in the smaller local venues. These are theaters and...