{"id":157157,"date":"2025-09-24T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157157\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:26:10","slug":"50th-anniversary-grey-gardens-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157157\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary ‘Grey Gardens’ Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grab your favorite raccoons, best head scarves, and oh, God, get ready for another winter, because it\u2019s time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Albert and David Maysles\u2019 landmark 1975 documentary,\u00a0\u201cGrey Gardens.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

To celebrate the film in style (the only way it could possibly be done), New York City\u2019s Paris Theater<\/a> is hosting a special screening of the documentary on Sunday, October 5. The one-time-only event will kick off at 2:00PM and be introduced by actress, model, and author\u00a0Julia Fox<\/a> (\u201cUncut Gems,\u201d \u201cNight Always Comes\u201d), who will also chat with jewelry designer Alexis Bittar about the film\u2019s continuing importance.<\/p>\n

The film, which was co-directed by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, first premiered at the 1975 New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, before opening at the Paris in February of 1976. (While the film earned mixed reviews upon its initial release, it long ago gained cult status, and remains a singular favorite.) The 581-seat single-screen theater temporarily closed in 2019<\/a>, before being saved by Netflix<\/a> just weeks later<\/a>. In the years since, the streamer has used the theater to host all sorts of thrilling series, retrospectives, and special events like this upcoming \u201cGrey Gardens<\/a>\u201d bonanza.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a> \"Two<\/a> <\/p>\n

Expect a delightful collision of NYC\u2019s film freaks and fashionistas to descend on the movie house next week. The impossibly intimate \u201cGrey Gardens\u201d introduced the world to\u00a0Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. <\/p>\n

Since its debut five decades ago, obsession, interest, and affection for the film has not waned. It\u2019s been both meticulously restored<\/a> and lovingly parodied<\/a>, it\u2019s inspired documentary prequels<\/a> and narrative recreations<\/a>, and been the basis of endless Halloween costumes<\/a>. Yet nothing quite compares to the real thing, a truly original documentary about truly original women.<\/p>\n

Tickets are on sale now at\u00a0the Paris Theater\u2019s website, right here.<\/a> You can even make a full day of it, as the Paris is also showing classics \u201cHow Green Was My Valley\u201d and \u201cLawrence of Arabia\u201d before and after the \u201cGrey Gardens\u201d screening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grab your favorite raccoons, best head scarves, and oh, God, get ready for another winter, because it\u2019s time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,71816,71817,2839,392,71818,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-157157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-grey-gardens","10":"tag-julia-fox","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-netflix","13":"tag-paris-theater","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}