Clad in a suit, spectacles and a smile wide as can be, legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles ("Grey Gardens," "Salesman") celebrated a landmark 86th birthday at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem Friday, Dec. 7. After a short reception, during which his daughter tended bar to a number of Maysles' friends and family, the party was led into the small and intimate theater for a screening of Maysles' 1970 documentary "Gimme Shelter" -- a timely choice considering the Rolling Stones' celebration of their own landmark 50th anniversary this year. Before the screening, Maysles was awarded a Proclamation plaque by State Senator Bill Perkins, who revealed his own infatuation with Maysles since he was a once-aspiring documentary filmmaker himself. "I'm revealing too much about myself," Perkins jokingly said to Maysles in an aside as he handed him the plaque, which documents the filmmaker's great contribution to the field of...
- 12/14/2012
- by Eric Mattina
- Indiewire
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