HDCAM

Routine Pleasures

Jean-Pierre Gorin
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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.

DIRECTOR
Jean-Pierre Gorin
YEAR
1986
COUNTRY
West Germany / France / UK
RUNTIME
81 minutes
FORMAT
HDCAM

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.

Routine Pleasures
Routine Pleasures
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