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That Summer "Big Edie and Little Edie have become indelible cultural icons. But even if you're the completist... you've never seen the mother-daughter duo quite as they're revealed in That Summer. Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson, whose masterful touch with found footage made The Black Power Mix Tape 1967–1975 a potent historical chronicle, again delves into the vaults, with engrossing results. That Summer offers a new level of intimacy as well as a wider view, with Beard's commentary lending compelling context. Above all, the loving interactions between the socialite and the shut-ins has a tender, down-to-earth poignancy. What was to be a memory piece for Radziwill has been crafted into a memory piece about nostalgia itself.” - Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter Long believed to be lost forever, Sundance Selects is proud to present the theatrical premiere of THAT SUMMER, thought for decades to be only a legend, now restored to full glory. ...

GREY GARDENS Almost every family has skeletons in the closet and relatives they wish would recede into the woodwork. Such was true of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her sister Lee Radziwill. As girls, their Aunt Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Edie), their cousin, were equally part of the upper crust and Jackie and her sister enjoyed summer visits to their beautiful home and estate Grey Gardens in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton. In those days, life was good. But when Big Edie’s husband left her for another woman, their lives were to undergo a desperate change. Without the funds or ability to keep up the huge property, Grey Gardens began to fall into ruin. Eventually the two women became very reclusive, barely hanging on to survival. Exposed by the Enquirer and a cover story in New York Magazine about the filth, fleas, cats and raccoons sharing the home with the women, the health department i...

**** 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...