Train Notes

by James Benning: »About a year ago I took a train from New York to Seattle. I remember it being late October because Dennis was really depressed. Boston had just lost the World Series and in the sixth game they were just one strike away from winning it all. And Clements had such a good year. Dennis is a big Red Sox fan. It should have been their year. And I was depressed too. Not because Boston lost but because the Mets won. Not that I hated the Mets that bad, but because my girlfriend had moved out just before the season ended and moved in with some guy who was a big Mets fan and I couldn’t stand the fact that if the Mets won she would be then be living with a fan of the World Champions. Anyway this happened about a year ago...« That was 1987, now we have RR. And there is a wonderful opportunity to watch all films by James Benning during the already ongoing retrospective in Filmmuseum Munich and a RR location list on new filmkritik