Interview: Maysles' Memories of "Grey Gardens" at IFC Center

Before people began lining up for documentaries about penguins, fast-food supersizing and Al Gore, Albert and David Maysles made movies about things that audiences thought they already knew everything about. 

While the occupation of door-to-door salesman didn’t seem all that interesting in the ‘60s, their “Salesman” documentary found that the job came with more baggage than the fancy Bibles their subjects lugged around and peddled to churchgoers. 

A fatal encounter between a man and a member of the Hells Angels during the Rolling Stones’ concert at Altamont stunned many a hippie in 1969, but it’s hard to get a sense of why things went so wrong so fast until you see the whole thing yourself in “Gimme Shelter,” one of the most legendary concert films of all time. The Maysles are as famous for it as the Stones are. 
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