{"id":845,"date":"2013-01-01T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=845"},"modified":"2024-08-20T22:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:16:53","slug":"iris-apfels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/iris-apfels\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of a Feather: Iconoclasts Albert Maysles and Iris Apfel Team on Documentary | DV Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Digital Video magazine \u2014 January 2013<\/em>
Birds of a Feather: Iconoclasts Albert Maysles and Iris Apfel Team on Documentary<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are in the throes of making a portrait film of Iris Apfel in all her stylish splendor,\u201d reads the Maysles Films web site, the online home of pioneering documentarian Albert Maysles. The notice comes with a link to a film trailer (see below), cut by New York-based editor Lynn True, featuring the fashion icon and self-declared \u201cgeriatric starlet,\u201d now in her 91st year, in her trademark round, black glasses. \u201cI think style is all attitude. Attitude, attitude, attitude,\u201d Apfel declares at the beginning of the work-in-progress documentary, clearly in her element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with his brother David, Maysles is one of the forerunners of cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9\u2019s North American cousin, direct cinema, which relies on the handheld camera. The best-known collaborations from the brothers include the legendary Grey Gardens<\/em> (1976), which documents the relationship of a reclusive mother and daughter living in a decaying East Hampton mansion, along with the 1970 Rolling Stones documentary, Gimme Shelter<\/em>, and Salesman<\/em> (1968), which was named to the National Film Registry in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maysles was first drawn to film Apfel by a close-up photo that ran as a full page in the weekly New York Observer<\/em>. \u201cThat face is really something special,\u201d he says of the decision to begin filming Apfel despite having secured only partial funding for project. \u201cYou see that face of Iris\u2019 and you\u2019re immediately engaged. She is such a character. She\u2019s in her nineties, full of sparkle and energy and love of life. She wants to be an eccentric, and it\u2019s charming.\u201d (Read more…<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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