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David Maysles

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David Maysles

Born January 10, 1931 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USADied January 3, 198725 films

Albert (born November 26, 1926, Boston, Massachusetts) and David Maysles (rhymes with "hazels", born 10 January 1932, Boston, Massachusetts) were a documentary filmmaking team whose cinéma vérité works include Salesman (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (1976). Their 1964 film on The Beatles forms the backbone of the DVD, The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit. Several Maysles films document art projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude over a three-decade period, from 1974 when Christo's Valley Curtain was nominated for an Academy Award to 2005 when The Gates headlined New York's Tribeca Film Festival.

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David Maysles, the younger brother, died of a stroke on January 3, 1987, in New York. Albert Maysles graduated in 1949 with a BA from Syracuse University and later earned a masters degree at Boston University. Albert has continued to make films on his own since his brother's death. Jean-Luc Godard once called Albert Maysles "the best American cameraman". In 2005 Maysles was given a lifetime achievement award at the Czech film festival AFO (Academia Film Olomouc). He is working on his own autobiographical documentary.

In 2005 he founded the Maysles Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides training and apprenticeships to underprivileged individuals. Albert is a patron of Shooting People, a filmmakers' community.

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Gimme Shelter posterFirst watchGimme Shelter19707.4A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at…View film

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Filmography

25 films as director
  1. 2008The GatesDirector
  2. 2006The Beales of Grey GardensDirector
  3. 1990Christo in ParisDirector
  4. 1987IslandsDirector
  5. 1985Horowitz: The Last RomanticDirector
  6. 1985OzawaDirector
  7. 1980Muhammad and LarryDirector
  8. 1977Running FenceDirector
  9. 1976Grey GardensDirector
  10. 1976The Burks of GeorgiaDirector
  11. 1974Christo's Valley CurtainDirector
  12. 1970Gimme ShelterDirector
  13. 1969SalesmanDirector
  14. 1968Journey to JerusalemDirector
  15. 1968Experiment on 114th StreetDirector
  16. 1966Meet Marlon BrandoDirector
  17. 1966Salvador Dalí's Fantastic DreamDirector
  18. 1966Orson Welles in SpainDirector
  19. 1966With Love from TrumanDirector
  20. 1965Cut PieceDirector
  21. 1964IBM: A Self PortraitDirector
  22. 1964What's Happening! The Beatles in the USADirector
  23. 1964Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New YorkDirector
  24. 1963ShowmanDirector
  25. 1962AnastasiaDirector