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Hey Homo!: Grey Gardens
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Tue Nov 24
7 pm
Hey Homo!: Grey Gardens at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
Arguably the greatest film by legendary vérité documentarians the Maysles Brothers, Grey Gardens focuses on Big Edie Beale and her daughter, Little Edie. Having achieved tabloid notoriety as Jackie Onassis' aunt and first cousin, respectively, the duo—trapped in their squalid, decaying Hamptons mansion—came under the Maysles peering, sympathetic lens. Far more than a freak show (though charges of exploitation continue), Grey Gardens is an elegant, intricately edited portrait of two people trapped in a house they haunt themselves, running through the same memories and accusations over and over; it's equal parts The Shining and Celine And Julie Go Boating. Its reputation as a gay camp classic (hence its inclusion in the Hey Homo! series) only scratches the surface; this is as true a narrative masterpiece as any "fiction."
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown 320 E 6th Street, Austin, TX
Arguably the greatest film by legendary vérité documentarians the Maysles Brothers, Grey Gardens focuses on Big Edie Beale and her daughter, Little Edie. Having achieved tabloid notoriety as Jackie Onassis' aunt and first cousin, respectively, the duo—trapped in their squalid, decaying Hamptons mansion—came under the Maysles peering, sympathetic lens. Far more than a freak show (though charges of exploitation continue), Grey Gardens is an elegant, intricately edited portrait of two people trapped in a house they haunt themselves, running through the same memories and accusations over and over; it's equal parts The Shining and Celine And Julie Go Boating. Its reputation as a gay camp classic (hence its inclusion in the Hey Homo! series) only scratches the surface; this is as true a narrative masterpiece as any "fiction."
Updated 11/12/2009
