Albert Maysles In Transit (2015)

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1

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?

2

Here is the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpGByYvKHvU&t=15s

3

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.

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.

4

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.