Or, as I call it, “The B-Sides of Grey Gardens.” I can’t think of any other situation like this — a full feature film, appearing 30 years after the original, made up simply of outtakes from the original. There was a video released in the late 80s of outtakes from “Woodstock,” but that was just musical performances. Well, there’s a lot of muscial performances in this, too. The picture opens with Little Edie singing “You Ought To Be In Pictures” on the front porch. Her dramatic entrance was met with applause from the appreciative audience at last night’s midnight screening at the IFC Center, especially from the handfull of folks in the back who came dressed up. I wouldn’t recommend “The Beales of Grey Gardens” to those who haven’t seen “Grey Gardens” — it would make absolutely no sense. Unlike the original, which at least has a tiny narrative thread, this has none whatsoever. Also, you can kinda see why most of this ended up cut out — for the most part the original release got all the really good stuff. But as Ann said when the lights came up, “that will never be not fascinating!” The highlights include a musical montage of Little Edie in more of her revolutionary costumes (most not seen in the original) and Big Edie reciting tragic poetry. Also: lots more Jerry! And Lois, who seems kinda sane in the original, is actually a friggin’ nut (and possibly the worst painter in history.) Little Edie’s accusation of Big Edie having a crush on Jerry, which sounded like paranoia in the first one, is actually revealed to be quite well founded. Similarly, Little Edie confesses to a Design For Living-type fantasy with Albert and David Maysles. Ann & I will be buying this on DVD as soon as it is available. This first time I just needed it to wash over me — I’ll have a further opinion upon later scrutiny.