Director
David Maysles
95 years · Brookline, Massachusetts, USA · 22 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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert and David Maysles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Best known for
Filmography 22
The Gates
2008 · Director
On Kanopy
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
2006 · Self (archive footage)
The Beales of Grey Gardens
2006 · Self, Director
On HBO Max
Christo in Paris
1990 · Director
Islands
1987 · Director
Horowitz: The Last Romantic
1985 · Director
Ozawa
1985 · Director
Muhammad and Larry
1980 · Director
Running Fence
1977 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Grey Gardens
1976 · Self (uncredited), Director
On Plex
The Burks of Georgia
1976 · Director
Christo's Valley Curtain
1974 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Gimme Shelter
1970 · Self, Director
On HBO Max
Salesman
1969 · Director, Producer
On HBO Max
Meet Marlon Brando
1966 · Director
Salvador Dalí's Fantastic Dream
1966 · Director
Orson Welles in Spain
1966 · Director, Producer
With Love from Truman
1966 · Producer, Cinematography
Cut Piece
1965 · Director, Producer
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
1964 · Director
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
1964 · Director
Showman
1963 · Director