Grey Gardens

The documentary Grey Gardens, is about a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who live in poverty in the Grey Gardens located in New York. The documentary presents the Beales’ daily routines, illustrating the decaying mansion, hardship, and depressing reality the Beales’ live in. Furthermore, the story unfolds through the constant arguing between both big Edie and little Edie as they secretly reveal their true selves, own stories, struggles, and thoughts about the past and present. The film

Perhaps the most well-known innovators of the direct cinema genre of documentary film are the Maysles brothers, Albert and David Maysles. Together they created what became one of the most revolutionary contributions to direct cinema, Grey Gardens. This documentary film features the daily lives of a mother and her middle aged daughter, both named Edith Beale, who live in squalor despite their numerous recounts of their luxurious past. Through this film, the Maysles brothers went against the aesthetic

Grey Gardens is a superb musical and the incarnation at Bay Street Theatre, running through August 30th, is truly a special one for many reasons. Among them is the fact that the theatre, based in Sag Harbor, is only around 8 miles from the infamous house, so this truly hits home for them. Additionally, you will be grateful you are seeing this show as it has a remarkable cast filled with Broadway veterans. Legendary Tony Winner Betty Buckley and Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York lead the stellar

trudged through the streets below, panic eternally in the air. Buildings stood tall above everything, observing endlessly. A shade of continuous grey fell across everything. The towering skyscrapers, the fussy cars, the dirty streets, and the people; their faces drowned of everything but grey. This place was New York City. On June 6th, 2017, in one certain grey apartment building, in apartment 303 lived a man, just a man that lived alone. He just happened to wake up every morning to the lovely sweet

The eerie, soft but low wail of the dark figures around me echoed in the swirling wind as I dug my claws into the frozen soil, staring longingly at the distant wooden house, my sharp, pale yellow eyes barely able to see it through the thick sheet of descending snow. There I waited, alongside my allies, watching every move from afar. The snowflakes came down quickly, speckling my light gray fur and feeling as if a million tiny needles were piercing my bare nose. It had been hours since I started observing

Being a mom is hard, and being a teenage mom is even harder. Most teen moms will drop out and not continue further with their careers. “By age 30, only 1.5 percent of women who had pregnancies as a teenager have a college degree”(“Teen Pregnancy Statistics”). Nowadays, schools like Santa Ana College can help these young mothers attain a profession and raise their kids at the same time. Now thanks to colleges like SAC, that percentage can increase, and young mothers can strive to better themselves

Have you ever wondered if Aliens are real? Some people don't and some people do. Well, today I'm going to tell you 3 claims that Aliens are real. People say that they have a connection with Aliens. Aliens are real because of all the evidence they had found about them. Some people believe that aliens are fake because they think all the evidence and the stories people tell are fake. My opinion is that Aliens do exist in this world and trying to learn more about us. Here is some evidence that I think

Set two years after the events of Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided sees Adam Jensen return to a series that will undoubtedly have moral compasses spinning in overdrive. The latest Deus Ex game was featured at the Square Enix E3 2015 games conference. A new cinematic trailer looked very promising, showcasing Adam Jensen and his augmentations in full effect. As I watched the trailer, I couldn't help but be overcome by a strong sense of nostalgia. Immediately my mind cast back to 2011, and

A Sorrowful (and now dead) Woman OR The Good (and now dead) Housewife OR The Life and Death of the World’s Best Mom Gail Godwin’s Sorrowful Woman develops the message that the archetypal role of mother and wife is so constricting and limiting as to force ‘the mother’ character to end her life. The end of the story demonstrates the power of rhetoric, contrast, and detached narration in creating the text’s message. “A Sorrowful Woman” features a superficially simple narration style. “Now the days

“Can we eat turkey for supper?’ the boy asked.” In one line Godwin presents a reader with enough levels of complexity to easily fill an entire essay; why is one of the most prominent characters (and the son of the main character referred to as ‘the boy’? Does his focus on the tuckey emphasize his love of the idea and duties of a mother, as opposed to the actual person? Yet all of these quarries pale in comparison to an analysis of the text preceding this small quote. The end of Godwin’s “A Sorrowful