{"id":580,"date":"2008-06-13T18:13:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=580"},"modified":"2008-06-13T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:13:23","slug":"grey-gardens-1975-maysles-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/580","title":{"rendered":"Grey Gardens (1975, Maysles bros.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/greygardens1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>The always-fascinating adventures of Big Edie and Little Edie.  I&#8217;d picked it as a must-see for our short-lived Documentary Month, then decided there was no time to waste since there&#8217;s a fictionalized version with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange later coming out this year.  Katy liked it, I think, or at least we talked about it a lot.  I love how Little Edie draws the Maysles into her arguments, flirts with them, tries to knock them over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/greygardens2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Listened to the commentary at work.  Albert Maysles says when they were done editing, the first people they showed the film to were the Beales&#8230; they took it to the house and set up a screening in a room of the house they&#8217;d never been in before.  After the movie ended, a long silence while little Edie paced the floor, then she looked up and announced &#8220;The Maysles have created a classic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/greygardens3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The always-fascinating adventures of Big Edie and Little Edie. I&#8217;d picked it as a must-see for our short-lived Documentary Month, then decided there was no time to waste since there&#8217;s a fictionalized version with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange later coming out this year. Katy liked it, I think, or at least we talked about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,399,398],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-hamptons","tag-maysles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}