Cinematography: David Maysles

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by David Maysles. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Grey Gardens

1975 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States

Direction Ellen Hovde · Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Muffie Meyer

Plot Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary film by the direction/cinematography/editing team of Albert and David Maysles, Susan Froemke, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. The film depicts the everyday lives of...

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7.4

941 votes

7.4

941 votes

Meet Marlon Brando

1966 · Documentary · 26 min. · United States

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Charlotte Zwerin

Cast Marlon Brando · Rex Morgan · Mary Frann · Lee Murray

Plot Meet Marlon Brando is a delightful, unusually candid portrait of the world-famous movie star: A tongue-in-cheek confrontation with the press. While television journalists interview him about his most recent film,...

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

Running Fence

1977 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Charlotte Zwerin

Cast Christo · Jeanne-Claude

Plot An engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California. The artists' struggle with local ranchers,...

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Ozawa (TV)

1985 · Documentary · 57 min. · France

Direction Deborah Dickson · Susan Frömke · Albert Maysles · David Maysles

Cast Seiji Ozawa

Plot A portrait of Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A beguiling, thoughtful, self-effacing man, Seiji Ozawa speaks with great passion and precision about being caught between Eastern...

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Islands (TV)

1987 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Charlotte Zwerin

Plot Christo is world-renowned artist who specializes in doing the impossible: stringing a quarter-mile orange curtain across a Colorado valley, constructing a 24-mile fence of white nylon in California and, in...

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Christo in Paris

1990 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States

Direction Deborah Dickson · Susan Frömke · Albert Maysles · David Maysles

Plot This is the story of the quest of the artist Christo to wrap the famous Pont Neuf in France in fabric. It took Christo and his wife ten years to...

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Showman

1963 · Documentary · 53 min. · United States

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles

Cast Joseph E. Levine · Sophia Loren

Plot A documentary portrait of the brash American producer and distributor Joseph E.Levine, known for his successful promotions of Godzilla and Hercules,and now working on the US release of an Italian...

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Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic (TV)

1985 · Documentary · 88 min. · United States

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