Name: RR
Director: James Benning
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-11-02
Rating: 7

Question 1

What is RR about?

Accepted Answer

Looping, chugging and barreling by, the trains in Benning's latest monumental film map a stunning topography and a history of American development. RR comes three decades after Benning and Bette Gordon made The United States of America (1975), a cinematic journey along the country’s interstates that is keenly aware “of superhighways and railroad tracks as American public symbols.” A political essay responding to the economic histories of trains as instruments in a culture of hyper-consumption, RR articulates its concern most explicitly when Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech is heard as a mile long coal train passes through eastern Wyoming. Benning spent two and a half years collecting two hundred and sixteen shots of trains, forty-three of which appear in RR. The locomotives' varying colors, speeds, vectors, and reverberations are charged with visual thrills, romance and a nostalgia heightened by Benning's declaration that this will be his last work in 16mm film.

Question 2

Who appears in RR?

Accepted Answer

Cast info is available on the title page.

Question 3

What genre is RR?

Accepted Answer

RR is listed under Documentary.

Question 4

How long is RR?

Accepted Answer

RR has a runtime of 115 minutes.

Question 5

What year was RR released?

Accepted Answer

RR was released in 2007.