Highest rated movie: Gimme Shelter (1970)
Lowest rated movie: The Gates (2008)
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Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 75%.
Gimme Shelter is David Maysles's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 266 reviews.
The lowest rated film from David Maysles is The Gates, with a score of 67% based on 5 reviews.
Albert (born November 26, 1926, Boston, Massachusetts) and David Maysles (rhymes with "hazels", born 10 January 1932, Boston, Massachusetts) were a documentary filmmaking team whose cinéma vérité works include Salesman (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (1976). Their 1964 film on The Beatles forms the backbone of the DVD, The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit. Several Maysles films document art projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude over a three-decade period, from 1974 when Christo's Valley Curtain was nominated for an Academy Award to 2005 when The Gates headlined New York's Tribeca Film Festival.
David Maysles, the younger brother, died of a stroke on January 3, 1987, in New York. Albert Maysles graduated in 1949 with a BA from Syracuse University and later earned a masters degree at Boston University. Albert has continued to make films on his own since his brother's death. Jean-Luc Godard once called Albert Maysles "the best American cameraman". In 2005 Maysles was given a lifetime achievement award at the Czech film festival AFO (Academia Film Olomouc). He is working on his own autobiographical documentary.
In 2005 he founded the Maysles Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides training and apprenticeships to underprivileged individuals. Albert is a patron of Shooting People, a filmmakers' community.
David Maysles has directed films starring Albert Maysles, Jerry Torre, Edith Bouvier Beale and Lois Wright.
David Maysles has collaborated with these film directors: Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Ellen Giffard and Muffie Meyer.
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