Flintlock76This is the first I've heard of it, and I'd love to see it, in a theater, on a cable channel, on PBS, or anywhere. So I looked it up, and according to this 2017 article it looks like it's wrapped up in an unholy mess. Here's the story. https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/albert-maysles-last-film-in-transit-documentary-metrograph-1201845304/ What a shame.
So I looked it up, and according to this 2017 article it looks like it's wrapped up in an unholy mess. Here's the story.
https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/albert-maysles-last-film-in-transit-documentary-metrograph-1201845304/
What a shame.
Thanks for this. That is too bad.
The Frimbo reference is interesting. Apparently, the Maysles had been thinking about a film like this since at least 1965.
Have you seen their other documentaries? My favorites are Salesman (1969) about door-to-door bible salesmen, and Grey Gardens, a real-life gothic drama about Jackie Kennedy's destitute relatives living in a dilapidated Long Island mansion.
This is the first I've heard of it, and I'd love to see it, in a theater, on a cable channel, on PBS, or anywhere.
Here is the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpGByYvKHvU&t=15s
I am a big fan of the Maysles brothers, but I have not seen this film, which premiered in 2015.
Interestingly, a 1965 piece in Frimbo titled "Iron Horses" references a Maysles passenger train documentary being in the works.
Was this part of the same film? Has anyone seen In Transit?
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