Albert Maysles: Being Present and Experiencing
The list of extraordinary people to whom cinematographer/director Albert Maysles has gained intimate access and captured on film at historic moments includes John F. Kennedy, Muhammed Ali, the Rolling Stones, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Truman Capote, Sophia Loren, Fidel Castro, Warren Beatty, The Beatles, Marlon Brando, and too many others to list. “Making films has brought me in contact with big minds and small minds,” he told me. “And the small minds are sometimes bigger than the big minds in many ways.” The closeness Maysles feels to all his subjects is readily apparent, ...
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