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Routine Pleasures. What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two lines intersect in Jean-Pierre Gorin’s lovely and distinctly American film, which takes as its subject the desire to re-create the past (the locomotive aficionados’ elaborate worlds in miniature, Farber ...
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Apr 30, 1986 · Routine Pleasures: Directed by Jean-Pierre Gorin. What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two story lines intersect in an attempt to recreate the past.
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- Documentary
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
- 1986-04-30
ROUTINE PLEASURES is a masterful meditation on America's landscapes, real and imagined. Directed by Jean-Pierre Gorin • 1986 • United States What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common?
Jun 19, 2019 · Routine Pleasures makes of its investigation of “men and imagination” in 1980s America “a small-scale epic,” in Gorin’s words, a remake of Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939).
In his narration for Routine Pleasures, he describes himself as “no longer French, but not quite American” after his “fifth Fourth of July”. As with Poto and Cabengo , Gorin mashes together two stories and uses them to contrast his reaction to America.
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- ZDF, Ina, Channel 4 Television
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
Routine Pleasures is a thought-provoking documentary film by Jean-Pierre Gorin that was released in 1986. The movie explores the lives and passions of model train enthusiasts in the United States. The film is 1 hour and 20 minutes long and is shot in color.
French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin -- best known for his collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard during the director's politically radical phase of the early 1970s -- investigates a group of...
- Documentary
