Sunday Docs
Directed by Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
With Little Edie Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
Rated PG, 94 minutes
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together (with the help of some raccoons) amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.
Sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Documentary Film.