The documentary that launched a thousand Halloween costumes and about half of what came to be known as reality TV. The Maysles brothers turned their camera on Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter “Little Edie,” two eccentric blueblood matrons living together in a rotting, raccoon-infested mansion in East Hampton. As nutty as the Beales may seem, the Maysles capture their humanity and the loss at the heart of their lives.
1975 Maysles Brothers 1.37:1 Color DCP 95 min.
