Albert Maysles
July 22, 2012
Wherever they trained their cameras, documentary filmmakers Albert Maysles and his late brother, David, rendered their subjects compelling, pioneering the “direct cinema” of the early 1960s and getting even the toughest of characters—from over-the-top rock stars to bristly actors, hoarder socialites, calculating writers, and despairing door-to-door salesmen—to reveal what lies beneath