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Albert Maysles   1926-2015

Albert Maysles, holding a camera,

and his brother, David, at their studio in 1968.

Photograph: John Sotomayor

The New York Times

Albert Maysles, Pioneering Documentarian, Dies at 88

The New York Times

MARCH 6, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/
movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html

Mick Jagger in Gimme Shelter

Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature

Everett Collection / Rex Feature

Albert Maysles:

a film-maker who had an artist's sense of what was important

G

Friday 6 March 2015    18.43 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/mar/06/
albert-maysles-a-film-maker-artist-grey-gardens

Gimme Shelter    trailer    1970

Gimme Shelter (1970)

video    ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]    HD Retro Trailers    10 March 2018

Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles.

With Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Mick Taylor.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UsBmavjsE

Albert Maysles    1926-2015

award-winning documentarian

who, with his brother, David,

made intensely talked-about films,

including “Grey Gardens” and “Gimme Shelter,”

with their American version of cinéma vérité

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/
movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/
albert-maysles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Albert_and_David_Maysles

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/
albert-david-maysles-brothers-filming-rolling-stones-
gimme-shelter-concert-doc - 11 December 2020

https://www.npr.org/2017/06/27/
534572593/documentary-giant-albert-maysles-last-film-in-transit-
is-still-in-limbo

https://www.npr.org/2015/05/11/
405816894/documentary-spotlights-perfectly-accessorized-iris-apfel

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/17/
albert-maysles-obituary-letter

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/10/
392102189/fresh-air-remembers-pioneering-documentary-filmmaker-albert-maysles

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/08/
albert-maysles

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/
movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/06/
391269387/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentary-filmmaker-dies

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/06/
391246962/documentary-filmmaker-albert-maysles-dies-at-88

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/mar/06/
albert-maysles-a-film-maker-artist-grey-gardens

https://www.npr.org/2012/12/19/
167618525/albert-maysles-co-founder-of-maysles-films

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/15/
albert-maysles

https://www.npr.org/2010/08/20/
129277106/the-summer-of-music-documentaries-gimme-shelter

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/nov/05/
salesman-maysles

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/6127459/
The-Rolling-Stones-Gimme-Shelter.html

https://www.npr.org/2006/03/05/
5245651/a-musical-trip-to-grey-gardens

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/aug/19/edinburgh
filmfestival2005.edinburghfilmfestival

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/04/
obituaries/david-maysles-is-dead-at-54-maker-of-documentary-films.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Grey_Gardens

https://www.criterion.com/films/664-
grey-gardens - 1975

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gimme_Shelter_(1970_film)

https://www.criterion.com/films/
637-gimme-shelter - 1970

https://www.criterion.com/films/663-
salesman - 1969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Salesman_(1969_film)

Mayles brothers

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/
movies/ellen-hovde-dead.html

Charlotte Zwerin    USA    1931-2004

born Charlotte Mitchell

American documentary film director and editor know

 for her solo work profiling artists and musicians,

and as a pioneer of direct cinema and cinéma vérité,

co-directing the documentaries Salesman (1969),

Gimme Shelter (1970), and Running Fence (1978)

with Albert and David Maysles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Charlotte_Zwerin

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/27/
charlottes-place-living-with-the-ghost-of-a-verite-pioneer

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-31-
me-zwerin31-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/
arts/charlotte-zwerin-72-maker-of-documentaries-on-artists.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/
nyregion/public-lives-a-verite-veteran-reflects-on-life-behind-the-camera.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/30/
movies/tracking-the-life-and-art-of-thelonious-monk.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/16/
movies/film-christo-in-islands.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/16/
movies/film-series-puts-spotlight-on-new-women.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/11/
archives/running-fence-films-story-of-an-art-eventthe-program.html

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