GREY GARDENS RESTORED A BIG HIT 40 YEARS LATER
**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER Story By: G. H. HARDING **** Grey Gardens MAYSLES PASSES --- Documentarian director Al Maysles has died at the age of 88. With his brother David he directed Grey Gardens, one of the most famous docs of all time. With DA Pennebaker, Richard Leacock and Bob Drew he made countless other films and worked with the Rolling Stones on several legendary project, including Gimme Shelter on The Stones and more recently Gray Gardens. Maysles (pronounced May-zuls) departed from documentary conventions by not interviewing his films’ subjects. As he explained in an interview in 1994, “Making a film isn’t finding the answer to a question; it’s trying to capture life as it is.” That stark immediacy was a hallmark of the brothers’ films, beginning in the 1960’s, when they made several well-regarded documentaries. But it was “Gimme Shelter” (1970), about the Rolling Stones’ 1969 American tour that brought them widespread attention. It i...