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<em>Grey Gardens</em> Got A Makeover, Will Return To Big Screen
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 23, 2015
Modified Feb 23, 2015
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In March, the spotlight will shine back on the Edies, when Grey Gardens (the original 1970s documentary, not the Drew Barrymore remake) returns to theaters. America's favorite high-society dropouts even got a makeover for the occasion—a "striking new 2K restoration [has been] made by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences":
If you've somehow managed to never catch Albert and David Maysles's cult classic, this is a good opportunity to take in all of its beautiful weirdness on the big screen. The doc offers a very intimate look into the lives of Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale (and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis), as they live surrounded by the detritus of their past in a decaying East Hampton mansion, Grey Gardens.
The film returns to select theaters starting March 6th, with a six-day run at the Film Forum.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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