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2017
Submarine Deluxe
1 h 16 m

2017
Submarine Deluxe
1 h 16 m

In Transit

Summary In Transit journeys into the hearts and minds of everyday passengers aboard Amtrak's Empire Builder, the busiest long-distance train route in America. Captured in the tradition of Direct Cinema, the film unfolds as a series of interconnected vignettes, ranging from overheard conversations to moments of deep intimacy, in which passengers ...

Directed By: Albert Maysles, Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker III, Ben Wu

2017
Submarine Deluxe
1 h 16 m

2017
Submarine Deluxe
1 h 16 m

In Transit

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews

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Summary In Transit journeys into the hearts and minds of everyday passengers aboard Amtrak's Empire Builder, the busiest long-distance train route in America. Captured in the tradition of Direct Cinema, the film unfolds as a series of interconnected vignettes, ranging from overheard conversations to moments of deep intimacy, in which passengers ...

Directed By: Albert Maysles, Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker III, Ben Wu

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Jun 23, 2017

Alternately funny, touching, tough and hopeful, In Transit never tells you how to feel, but it sure makes it easy to feel it.

By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

Jun 21, 2017

Delightful at times and always insightful, In Transit contains a range of emotions and characters rarely seen, even in the best of narrative cinema.

By John Fink FULL REVIEW

Jun 22, 2017

Sampling snippets and snatches of lives and conversations, Maysles and his fellow filmmakers undertake a folk odyssey through northern landscapes that proves a fitting farewell to an American ethnographer.

By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW

Jun 23, 2017

The movie is a throwback to an earlier era of documentaries, when filmmakers did not feel obligated by commercial pressure to give their film the shape of a thriller, a sports film, a mystery or anything else, but instead simply brought their cameras into people's lives.

By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW

Jun 21, 2017

The film's thematic organization suggests the cinematic equivalent of a short-story collection, with haunting tangents and stray notes of poetry.

By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

Aug 30, 2017

Mostly people talk. Lovely to look at, In Transit is even better to listen to. The documentary tells us straightaway that what we hear matters just as much as what we see.

By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW

Jun 21, 2017

For better and worse, Maysles and his team don’t impose any sort of grand philosophical thesis on these random encounters. The notion of wanting to pick up stakes and restart your life in a new location recurs throughout, but the film (which runs a brisk 76 minutes) is mostly content just to sample the populace, trusting in humanity itself to hold the viewer’s interest.

By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW

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Details

Production Company Maysles Documentary Center, True Walker Productions

Release Date Jun 23, 2017

Duration 1 h 16 m

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Website http://www.intransitfilm.com/

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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Philadelphia Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Indiewire Critics' Poll

• 1 Nomination

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