In celebration of the New York Transit Museum’s 50th Anniversary, the Film Forum is hosting a NYC In Transit series, featuring some of transit’s most notable roles on screen. Check out the lineup of iconic films where buses, elevated trains, and subway cars take center stage.
New York Transit Museum Members can purchase up to two tickets per transaction for Film Forum’s NYC in Transit series screenings at a discounted price of $14 by presenting their Transit Museum membership card to their box office or booking online with promo code (for details, see July 21 member email).
U.K., 1966
Directed by Anthony Harvey
Based on the 1964 play by Amiri Baraka
Starring Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr.
Approx 55 min.
Adapted by Anthony Harvey from the controversial one-act play by Amiri Baraka, and nominated for the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion, the British independent feature DUTCHMAN remains as provocative today as it was in 1966. In an empty New York City subway car, a sexually audacious white woman named Lula (Shirley Knight) taunts Clay (Al Freeman Jr.), a mild-mannered Black man, with mocking flirtations and increasingly offensive race-baiting. When Lula pushes him to his breaking point, Clay’s furious response appears to provide cathartic liberation—unless it portends a far more tragic fate. Baraka’s script suffuses DUTCHMAN with combative innuendo and allegorical dream logic, amplified by the tense, cinema-verité style of Harvey, a longtime editor who shot his directorial debut with fearless command, expertly excavating America’s deepest racial taboos.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
With
The Candy Machine (1972, Directed by George Griffin)
“The man just wants a piece of candy. The candy machine just wants a piece of the man. A cartoon employing a novel xerox technique to combine animation and live action.” – George Griffin
