Routine Pleasures
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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’s teeming canvases) and expands to something richly philosophical and surprisingly funny. Routine Pleasures is a masterful meditation on America’s landscapes, real and imagined.
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Cast
- Chester Culp
- The Pacific Beach & Western crew
- Ray Dinsen
- George Geyer
- Gene Lindsay (in memoriam)
- Henry Mills
- Charles Powell
- John Pritchett
- Nelson Rath
- Scott Rhodes
- John Schmeling
- Roger Steadman
- Ken Stroup
- Corky Thomson
Credits
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Executive producer
- Rachel Regan Staver
- Written by
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Written by
- Patrick Amos
- Camera
- Babette Mangolte
- Assistant camera
- Mark Daniels
- Editors
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Editors
- Babette Mangolte
- Editors
- Patrick Amos
- Assistant editor
- Jean Saris
- Sound
- Gregg Federmack
- Sound editing by
- Catherine Ryan
- Music editor
- Georges Bloch
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