Most accounts of Beatlemania begin by dropping viewers in the midst of the fray, ears ringing from the ecstatic shrieks of teenage girls. The brief introduction sets up the idea, voiced by Paul McCartney toward the end of David Tedeschi’s feature-length documentary, that the U.S. was especially primed for the band’s arrival by JFK’s assassination—that their appearance on The Ed …
Chloe Sevigny stars as C.Z. The self-mythologizing New York soirée he would throw was also, Baitz says, “the Titanic three nights before the iceberg.” According to Baitz, it was Murphy’s “magnificent conceit” to contextualize “Masquerade 1966” as unseen footage shot by Albert and David Maysles, nonfiction filmmakers celebrated for the intimate style known as “direct cinema.” Hence, we see the …
