Grey Gardens - The Beales Of Grey Gardens (Criterion) DVD

Grey Gardens:

• New digital transfer
• Audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer and associate producer Susan Froemke
• Excerpts from a 1976 recorded interview with Little Edie Beale, by Kathryn G. Graham, for Interview magazine
• Video interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the continuing influence of Grey Gardens
• Hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs, trailers, and filmographies
• Plus: An essay by critic Hilton Als

The Beale of Grey Gardens:

• New digital transfer, approved by director Albert Maysles
• New video introduction by Albert Maysles
• Plus: A new essay by Village Voice columnist Michael Musto

Director: Ellen Hovde

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale -- high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O. -- thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. Five years after Gimme Shelter, the Maysles unveiled this impossibly intimate portrait of the unexpected, an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, which has since become a cult classic and established Little Edie as fashion icon and philosopher queen.