Albert Maysles

James Franco directs Lindsay Lohan in new R.E.M. music video

2012-11-17 13:00:00

A forbidding mixture of droning guitars and sub-Beat poetry about the ocean and Walt Whitman, R.E.M.'s "Blue" didn't seem like a song in need of additional artiness when it closed the veteran alt-rock band's 2011 swan song, "Collapse Into Now." A year...

Richard Leacock dies at 89; documentary filmmaker pioneered cinema verite technique

2011-03-26 00:00:00

Richard Leacock, a documentary filmmaker and pioneer of the unobtrusive cinema verite camera technique, has died. He was 89. Leacock died Wednesday in Paris, said his daughter Victoria Leacock Hoffman. He had been in declining health and had taken...

ESPN's '30 for 30': The world's most unlikely indy film festival

2010-12-06 21:32:32

Shopping: Gimme Albert Mayslesâ€™ eyeglasses!

2009-10-29 16:32:11

Lehigh Valley native filmed DVD for Slash's hit new album, 'Apocalyptic Love'

2012-06-01 16:23:37

TV pays homage to the 10th anniversary of 9/11

2011-08-26 14:10:47

We know it's coming, yet that doesn't make it any easier. Watching the planes slice through the towers and the towers crumble, seeing the Pentagon smoldering, and knowing the brave sacrifice that took place above a field in Pennsylvania -- all remain...

Tony nominations unveiled

2007-05-15 00:00:00

Signaling a possible breakthrough for a new generation of composers whose bona fides are not in theater but in rock, "Spring Awakening," a musical hailed for bringing a fresh and authentic rock edge to a 19th century German tale about teenagers' sexual...

Tony noms fete Broadway's year of the biography

2007-06-10 00:00:00

If there's any doubt that we're living in a golden age of creative nonfiction, the nominations for this year's Tonys, which will be awarded Sunday night, should squelch it. Have there ever been more actors nominated for playing real-life characters?...

Drew Barrymore, HBO Plant 'Gardens'

2007-09-18 00:00:00

HBO has lined up a pair of big names for its movie adaptation of the 1970s documentary "Grey Gardens." Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange have been tapped to star in the film, about the eccentric aunt and cousin of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy...

'Gypsy Caravan'

2007-06-29 00:00:00

The term "Gypsy," often used pejoratively, conjures images of wastrels, vagabonds, fortunetellers and thieves, not to mention a distant memory of Cher (the Sonny & version) belting out, "I was born in the wagon of a traveling show ... " The label has...

'Stolen'

2006-11-03 00:00:00

"Stolen" is about a puzzle that's resisted solution for more than 15 years, but that doesn't stop it from being a fascinating, adventurous documentary with a lively and eccentric cast of characters. The puzzle comes in two interconnected parts: Who...

ESPN prepares to offer 30 documentaries in 15 months

2009-04-27 16:30:16

On Friday I attended a panel discussion on the making of sports documentaries that featured four filmmaking luminaries: Albert Maysles ("Gimme Shelter," "Grey Gardens"), Barry Levinson ("Diner," "The Natural," "Rain Man"), Barbara Kopple ("Harlan County...

Maysles follows the band's 1969 tour, and the feeling of dread is inescapable; the fact that we know what's coming at the end in no way depletes it of its suspense.

2010-09-08 16:12:36

Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles with Barneys Julie Gilhart.

2008-04-18 12:47:49