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.S., 1948
Directed by Jules Dassin
Starring Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Produced by Mark Hellinger
Photographed by William Daniels
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Cinematography, Best Editing, 1949
Approx. 96 min.
With introduction and afterward by Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein
Following a beautiful young model’s murder on W. 83rd St., inspector Barry Fitzgerald and detective Don Taylor track down leads to Stillman’s Gym, the old Essex Market (Essex Street, just north of Delancey), a corner candy store at Norfolk and Rivington, and ultimately to the City Morgue and Roosevelt Hospital—among the picture’s 107 different locations—with final showdown on the Williamsburg Bridge. Based on an actual 1920s case, once covered by producer, narrator, and erstwhile newspaperman Mark Hellinger. Oscar®-winning camerawork by former Garbo lenser William Daniels.
Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s
With
Uncovering the Naked City (2020, Bruce Goldstein, approx. 23 min.)
In this original short documentary and personal essay, Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Founding Repertory Artistic Director, tracks down many of the 100+ New York City locations—from the Bronx to the Lower East Side—used in his friend Jules Dassin’s classic police procedural THE NAKED CITY, while also spotlighting the contributions of producer Mark Hellinger and cinematographer William Daniels (best known as Greta Garbo’s favorite DP).
