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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Mar 6, 2015 12:16:26 GMT -6
deadline.com/2015/03/albert-maysles-dies-filmmaker-cinema-verite-grey-gardens-1201387439/Albert Maysles Dies: Documentary Filmmaker Was 88 The co-director of acclaimed films such as Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens and Salesman passed away Thursday. Born in Boston on November 26, 1926, Maysles and his brother David made cinema verite documentaries together from the late 1950s until the latter’s death in 1987. Albert continued making films on his own and in collaboration with other filmmakers for HBO and others. The brothers were nominated for a Best Documentary, Short Subjects Academy Award in 1974 for Christo’s Valley Curtain. Co-directing with Deborah Dickson and Susan Froemke, Maysles won an Emmy in 1992 for Abortion: Desperate Choices. Maysles last finished film was 2014’s Iris about interior decorator Iris Apfel. His co-helmed In Transit was in postproduction when the filmmaker passed away but it is slated to world premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Festival. That pic centers the Empire Builder, America’s busiest long-distance train route that runs from Chicago to Seattle. Throughout these corridors sit runaways, adventurers, and loners — a myriad of passengers waiting to see what their journey holds. Mayles founded the NYC-based Maysles Documentary Center in 2005. Last year, President Barack Obama awarded Maysles with the National Medal Of Arts.
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