article_snippet: We lost a true titan today, one who pioneered an art form and fostered a whole generation of artists,' said Eamonn Bowles, president of Magnolia Pictures, which is releasing Iris. '
article_snippet: Filmmakers David, left, and Maysles work on the streets of New York for Salesman .
article_snippet: That led them to make the feature-length Salesman in 1968, following Bible salesmen from house to house as them try to convince people to buy what one of people calls 'still the best-seller in the world.'
article_snippet: In Grey Gardens, released in 1975 and later adapted into a Broadway musical, the Maysles Brothers captured on film the lives of a mother and her daughter, relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, living in a falling-apart East Hampton mansion.
article_snippet: They were Oscar nominated for They 1973