Sorry to be morbid re: further Kennedy family tragedies, but this genuinely is a really good movie. Kate Mara nails her role as the gone-too-soon Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the “Boiler Room Girls” who worked on Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign.—ES
That Summer (2017)
As a corrective to the rare (and mostly snarky) references to Lee Radziwill—Jackie Kennedy’s sister and John Jr.’s cousin Anthony’s mother—in Love Story, consider this little-seen prequel, of a kind, to the classic 1975 documentary Grey Gardens. In 1972, Radziwill and her friend, photographer Peter Beard, set out to make a documentary about her East Hampton childhood with Albert and David Maysles, featuring her “eccentric” aunt Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale. The project was eventually scrapped—though it gave the Maysles brothers the idea to make Grey Gardens—only to be revisited some 45 years later, when Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson pieced the footage together into a fascinating portrait of the Bouviers.—Marley Marius, senior editor, features and news
Jackie (2016)
