Seminal documentarian Albert Maysles comes from a long line of romantics. When his father was courting his mother, the couple used to meet at a streetcorner in downtown Boston to have lunch exactly at noon. "But what my mother didn't know is that my father would come five or 10 minutes early, place himself across the street behind a window and just look at her," says Maysles, who turns 78 this year. As Valentine's Day approaches, we are reminded that for Maysles, romance applies to all aspects of his life -- especially his films. He's in love with the nuances of humanity -- the tragic flaws and formidable strengths of the people he captures on film. He and his late brother David, both cinema verite trailblazers, captured the wide-eyed optimism of the Fab Four in 1964's What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A., the inner life of door-to-door Bible salesmen in 1969's Salesman and the horror of The Rolling Stones' ill-fated Altamont Speedway concert in 1970's Gimme Shelter.
- 2/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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