The Beales of Grey Gardens

In 1976, the Maysles brothers followed Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie around their dilapidated mansion, listening to these cousins of Jackie Kennedy Onassis ramble on about everything from fashion to philosophy to the vermin infesting their home. The resulting footage became Grey Gardens, a film whose status has ballooned from peripheral culthood into a Broadway musical and, soon, a major motion picture starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. The Beales of Grey Gardens is a sequel of sorts, cobbling together some of the footage edited out of the original—further odd and often funny gems of wisdom from the two sages.