Documentary Filmmaker. David Maysles, along with his brother, Albert, was one of the founders of the documentary genre known as 'cinema verite'. The brothers' best-known documentaries were 'Salesman' (1969), which chronicled the adventures of four Bible salesmen; 'Gimme Shelter' (1970), a record of the latter part of the Rolling Stones' 1969 American tour, and 'Grey Gardens' (1975), about Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, the reclusive aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Onassis. Their films were often controversial - particularly the scene in 'Gimme Shelter' in which a young man is stabbed to death by Hell's Angels at a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, and the candid self-revelations in 'Grey Gardens', in which Mrs. Beale and her daughter are photographed in their cat-infested house. The film makers repeatedly defended their technique as portraying "the truth". Their other films include 'Showman' (1963), 'What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.' (1964), 'Meet Marlon Brando' (1965), 'A Visit With Truman Capote' (1966), 'Christo's Valley Curtain' (1974), a film for which they were nominated for an Academy Award, 'Running Fence' (1978), 'Islands' (1985) and 'Vladimir Horowitz, the Last Romantic' (1985). Maysles died after suffering a stroke.
Documentary Filmmaker. David Maysles, along with his brother, Albert, was one of the founders of the documentary genre known as 'cinema verite'. The brothers' best-known documentaries were 'Salesman' (1969), which chronicled the adventures of four Bible salesmen; 'Gimme Shelter' (1970), a record of the latter part of the Rolling Stones' 1969 American tour, and 'Grey Gardens' (1975), about Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, the reclusive aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Onassis. Their films were often controversial - particularly the scene in 'Gimme Shelter' in which a young man is stabbed to death by Hell's Angels at a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, and the candid self-revelations in 'Grey Gardens', in which Mrs. Beale and her daughter are photographed in their cat-infested house. The film makers repeatedly defended their technique as portraying "the truth". Their other films include 'Showman' (1963), 'What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.' (1964), 'Meet Marlon Brando' (1965), 'A Visit With Truman Capote' (1966), 'Christo's Valley Curtain' (1974), a film for which they were nominated for an Academy Award, 'Running Fence' (1978), 'Islands' (1985) and 'Vladimir Horowitz, the Last Romantic' (1985). Maysles died after suffering a stroke.
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