The Maysles Institute will celebrate Albert Maysles’s upcoming eighty-fifth birthday with a special screening of SALESMAN
SALESMAN (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
Maysles Institute
343 Malcolm X Blvd. between 127th & 128th Sts.
Monday, November 7, 7:00
212-582-6050
www.mayslesinstitute.org
More than forty years ago, brothers Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin made the highly influential documentary Salesman, an intimate portrait of four traveling door-to-door Bible salesmen: Jamie Baker, Raymond Martos, Charles McDevitt, and particularly Boston’s Paul Brennan. Shot in black and white, the outstanding documentary was deservedly added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1992, as it is a fascinating piece of Americana. The shots of Brennan singing “If I Were a Rich Man” in the snow are priceless, but the end will haunt you. Without Salesman, there probably never would have been a Glengarry Glen Ross and so many other films. Salesman is having a special screening on November 7 at the Maysles Institute in honor of Albert’s upcoming eighty-fifth birthday (on November 26), and the master documentarian will be on hand for a postscreening Q&A.