Routine Pleasures
Film Comment Selects 2012
February 17 - March 1, 2012
Gorin’s unclassifiable second American feature begins as an affectionate group portrait of devoted model-train hobbyists in the San Diego suburb of Pacific Beach (filmed in lustrous black and white), detours through the painting studio of artist-critic Manny Farber (at work on two of his bustling, crowded canvases), and pauses for ruminations on Thelonius Monk, William Wellman, and Howard Hawks—yet somehow, wonderfully, feels all of a piece. The subjects are all miniaturists of a sort, and so too is Gorin, treating us here to another lyrical, inimitable vision of his shoebox America.
Gorin’s unclassifiable second American feature begins as an affectionate group portrait of some devoted model-train hobbyists in the San Diego suburb of Pacific Beach, then detours through the painting studio of artist-critic Manny Farber.
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