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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 445 Flicking #8: Grey Gardens

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Grab your favourite jumper, wrap it around your head and safety pin your backless swimming costume together, as this month's Flicking sees Mick and our resident film buff Yosra Osman visit the iconic Grey Gardens at Hannah's behest. The Maysles brothers' cult 1975 documentary throws up a lot of questions: What will they make of Big and Little Edie Beale? What does it tell us about mums, daughters, mums and daughters, and women in general? How did it change documentary making? And just how many raccoons is too many raccoons?  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:20.0

There were three ordinary women on what seemed like a simple mission to find a film they liked.

0:30.0

One where women got something to do and not just look pretty or be murdered.

0:36.0

Which, to be totally honest, has complicated matters a bit.

0:41.0

Welcome to flicking. Yes, it sounds a bit rude. That's the joke.

0:47.0

Hello listeners and welcome to this month's episode of our rude sounding AV club Flicking. This month Hannah was on the wheels of steel.

0:55.0

Hannah was on the wheels of steel.

0:58.4

Hannah, what did you get us to spin on our TVs. This month we watched Grey Gardens, which both isn't

1:06.5

one of my favorite films, but is definitely one of those films that I think

1:10.4

everybody should watch and every woman should watch.

1:13.2

This seemed like the perfect opportunity to force you to do it.

1:17.6

So background to this.

1:19.3

Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary by brothers Albert and David Maisels.

1:25.0

Perhaps the very definition of a cult film, it was placed ninth in a sight and sound

1:31.1

poll of critics to find the best documentary ever made.

1:35.2

It spawned a sub-genre of its own, including a musical, an HBO drama, several plays,

1:41.4

loads of books, and too many drag shows to count. You'll find references to it

1:47.5

across popular culture from Rufus Wainwright songs to 30 Rock episodes, and it's probably responsible for about 25% of my

1:55.6

cultural references as well as my abiding fear of ever having to live with my mom again it tells the of Jackie Kennedy, Onasas, who have fallen on hard times.

2:13.7

79-year-old Big Edy, who's permanently on the verge of being completely naked,

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