Siskel Film Center: Grey Gardens

Thursday, June 5, 6:00 p.m. & Sunday, June 15, 2:00 p.m. | In Slate, J. Bryan Lowder wrote what makes the documentary GREY GARDENS in part a camp classic, and “one of the most prominent and oft-cited entries in the canon of gay culture,” is that Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, the reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis, are intimately captured, in their deteriorating house in East Hampton, without an ounce of judgement. “The filmmakers simply allow them to be,” Lowder writes. That uninhibited freedom is, as Sontag writes, a hallmark of camp: “a proper mixture of the exaggerated, the fantastic, the passionate and the naive.”