Albert Maysles Movies

IRIS pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has...

A documentary about artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1991 grand-scale environmental art project in Japan and California.

Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

Accent on the Offbeat is a cinema vérité film about the creation and premiere of the ballet Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements), composed...

Filmed during a studio-organized press junket, "Meet Marlon Brando" observes Marlon Brando as he fields a succession of television interviews meant...

This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district. LaLee's Kin...

This Oscar-nominated documentary follows Christo and Jeanne-Claude as they conceive and execute Valley Curtain, an immense orange fabric installation...

This acclaimed documentary traces the building of the Getty Center—one of the most ambitious cultural undertakings of the twentieth century....

Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s...

Through the poetic lens of visionary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, Muhammad and Larry explores the unique and poignant relationship between...

Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity,...

The life of Anastasia Stevens, an American dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet, at the height of the Cold War. An early work by the Maysles brothers for the...

Canadian singer Rufus Wainwright performs live on August 27, 2007 at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in support of his studio album,...

Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right, offers a exploration of...

Mother and daughter - Big Edie and Little Edie Beale - live with six cats in a crumbling house in East Hampton. Little Edie, in her 50s, who wears...

A stimulating study which features concert footage and interviews with the master pianist. Includes many of his favorite pieces.

In October of 1980 Muhammad Ali was preparing to fight for an unprecedented fourth heavyweight title against his friend and former sparring partner...

Filmmaker, Walter Forsyth sets out on a journey to make a tribute film about photographer/filmmaker, Robert Frank, deconstructing the documentary...

A 1968 documentary made under the aegis of the United States Office of Economic Opportunity, chronicling the early stages of the 114th Street...

A documentary on the life and work of artist Jeff Koons, told through the perspective of Koons himself, curators, gallerists, and fellow artists...