Description: NY TIMES REVIEW

　　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 …