Muffie Meyer

Making Rounds

Muffie Meyer

Life and death in a cardiac critical care unit. We follow two amazing doctors for a month as they make their rounds. Their approach to treating patients shows a path toward solving the healthcare crisis in the US.

Grey Gardens

Muffie Meyer, David Maysles

Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

The New Medicine

Muffie Meyer

Dana Reeve, Liev Schreiber

Before her death in 2006 from lung cancer, Dana Reeve filmed this thought-provoking program exploring the use of holistic remedies in modern medicine. Moving beyond traditional treatments and examining more lifestyle factors, an increasing number of doctors are supplementing their work with a host of healing alternatives -- including meditation, hypnosis and acupuncture -- to treat the whole body and restore their patients' health.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Muffie Meyer, Mirra Bank

Maria Tucci, Kevin Bacon

This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.

The Burks of Georgia

Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer

The Maysles profile a poor white Georgian family struggling to survive with the realities of thirteen children.