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Documentary films are a notoriously tough sell, especially those that, in the cinema vérité tradition of Albert Maysles, favor careful observation over first-person editorializing. But the Maysles Cinema, a nonprofit theater in Harlem founded by Mr. Maysles, who, with his late brother David, made such landmark films as “Salesman” (1968) and “Grey Gardens” (1975), aims to show nothing but documentaries, and intends to build an audience through them, not in spite of them.

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