Country: USA
Year: 1970
Duration: 90'
Biography
film director
Albert Maysles
Albert (1926) and David (1932-1987) Maysles were born in Boston, where they graduated in psychology. In 1962 they founded Maysles Film and produced their first documentary, Showman. Together with Charlotte Zwerin they gave impetus to the American school of Direct Cinema, in particular with Salesman (1968).
FILMOGRAFIA
Albert Maysles: Psychiatry in Russia (1955), Christo in Paris (1990), Abortion: Desperate Choices (1992), Umbrellas (1995), Letting Go: A Hospice Journey (1996), Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center (1998), LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001).
David Maysles
Albert (1926) and David (1932-1987) Maysles were born in Boston, where they graduated in psychology. In 1962 they founded Maysles Film and produced their first documentary, Showman. Together with Charlotte Zwerin they gave impetus to the American school of Direct Cinema, in particular with Salesman (1968).
FILMOGRAFIA
Albert e David Maysles: Youth in Poland (1957), Primary (1957), Yanki No! (1960), Adventures on the New Frontier (1961), Eddie (1961), Showman (1963), What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A. (1964), Grey Gardens (1976), Ozawa (1985), Vladimir Horowitz the Last Romantic (1985), Islands (1986).
Charlotte Zwerin
Charlotte Zwerin began working in television at CBS, moving on to ABC as part of the documentary group, and then to NBC. Her most famous work, produced by Clint Eastwood, was Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser.
FILMOGRAFIA
De Kooning on De Kooning (1981), Arshile Gorky (1982), Writers Writing: Telling an Old Story (1985), Islands (1986), Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (1989), Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu (1994), Fine Tuning: Pacific Music Festival (1996), Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director: David e Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin.
Riprese: Maysles Brothers, Peter Adair, Baird Bryant, Joan Churchill, Ron Dorfman, Robert Elfstrom, Elliott Erwitt, Bob Fiori, Adam Giffard, William Kaplan, Kevin Keating, Stephen Lighthill, George Lucas, Jim Moody, Jack Newman, Pekke Niemela, Robert Primes, Eric Saarinen, Peter Smokler, Paul Ryan, Coulter Watt, Gary Weiss, Bill Yarrus.
Editor: Ellen Giffard, Robert Farren, Joanne Burke, Kent McKinney.
Sound: Bill Blachy.
Music: Michael Becker, John Brumbaugh, Howard Cheslet, Pepper Crawford, Stanley Cronquist, Paul Deason, Tom Goodwin, Peter Pilafin, Orly Lindgren, Walter Murch, Art Rochester, Nelson Stoll, David Thompson, Alvin Tokunow.
Production company: Maysles Films, Inc.
Produttore associato: Porter Bibb
Riprese: Maysles Brothers, Peter Adair, Baird Bryant, Joan Churchill, Ron Dorfman, Robert Elfstrom, Elliott Erwitt, Bob Fiori, Adam Giffard, William Kaplan, Kevin Keating, Stephen Lighthill, George Lucas, Jim Moody, Jack Newman, Pekke Niemela, Robert Primes, Eric Saarinen, Peter Smokler, Paul Ryan, Coulter Watt, Gary Weiss, Bill Yarrus.
Editor: Ellen Giffard, Robert Farren, Joanne Burke, Kent McKinney.
Sound: Bill Blachy.
Music: Michael Becker, John Brumbaugh, Howard Cheslet, Pepper Crawford, Stanley Cronquist, Paul Deason, Tom Goodwin, Peter Pilafin, Orly Lindgren, Walter Murch, Art Rochester, Nelson Stoll, David Thompson, Alvin Tokunow.
Production company: Maysles Films, Inc.
Produttore associato: Porter Bibb