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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?
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.
Apr 6, 2016 · Here are descriptions of the 12 pleasures that appeared most often in the 20+ lists of favorite pleasures I reviewed. After that, I offer 14 of my own.
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 ...
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).
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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.
