"Jean-Pierre Gorin, its French-born director, describes 'Routine Pleasures' as a film essay about 'America - under-budget and in a shoe box,' which is accurate as far as it goes. The film is also a funny, very personal meditation on the activities of a group of model-railroad buffs in Del Mar, Calif., crosscut with random examples of the wit and wisdom of the seminal film critic Manny Farber, two of whose paintings are also examined in detail.'Routine Pleasures,' opening today at the Film Forum 1, makes a point of never quite coming to a point. It's a movie that ponders possibilities and then moves on to other possibilities. It examines the vaguely interconnecting obsessions of the model railroaders and those of Mr. Farber, whose appreciation for Hollywood B-movies of the 1930's, especially those that deal with blue-collar workers, predates the 'discovery' of those films by the Cahiers du Cinema critics in the 1950's and 1960's. ..."
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