UNHAPPY TRAILS.(The Station Agent)(Wonderland)(Movie Review)

You can tell what a fine movie "The Station Agent" is from some of the noble institutions that are thanked in the final credits: Barry's Luncheonette, Good-to-Go Deli, and the inspiring Lunacy Beer. This was clearly a well-fed operation, and one that is proud to be provincial. The tale begins in Hoboken, where Fin (Peter Dinklage) works in a shop, selling and mending model railways. The cinematographer, Oliver Bokelberg, delivers placid shots of the storefronts, suggesting, first, that he knows his Walker Evans and, second, that the story will continue in the dizzy, cosmopolitan carnival that is today's Hoboken. Not so; Fin inherits a property in rural New Jersey, and ...