CHOO-CHOO TRAIN MOVIE LOVE!

**A locomotive photo-essay**

In honor of Bong Joon-ho's stellar post-apocalyptic SNOWPIERCER, which opened wide-release last week. If you miss most of this year's summer releases, don't miss this one. A film I personally believe to be an instant genre classic of sorts.

in order of appearance:
THE GENERAL (Keaton. 1927), THE LONE RANGER (Verbinski. 2013), SPIDER-MAN 2 (Raimi. 2004), RUNAWAY TRAIN (Konchalovsky. 1985), DUMBO (Disney. 1941), THE ILLUSIONIST (Chomet. 2010), BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Coppola. 1992), THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY (Leone. 1967), GODZILLA (Edwards. 2014), STAND BY ME (Reiner. 1986), SNOWPIERCER (joon-Ho. 2014), UNSTOPPABLE (Scott. 2010), THE HUMAN BEAST (Renoir. 1938). LAST TRAIN HOME (Fan. 2010), ASSASSINATION OF JESSES JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (Dominik. 2007), SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki. 2002), THE GOOD THE BAD THE WEIRD (Je-woon. 2010), JOHN HENRY (Henn. 2000), THE FUGITIVE (Davis. 1993), GHOSTS OF MARS (Carpenter. 2001), TRON LEGACY (Kosinski. 2010), GOLDENEYE (Campbell. 1995), INCEPTION (Nolan. 2010), THERE WILL BE BLOOD (P.T. Anderson. 2007), NARROW MARGIN (Fleischer. 1952), THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 (Scott. 2009), LITTLE MURDERS (Arkin. 1971), TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Sargent. 1974), SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki. 2002), BATMAN BEGINS (Nolan. 2005), SOME LIKE IT HOT (Wilder. 1959), LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Lean. 1962), WALLACE & GROMIT: THE WRONG TROUSERS (Park. 1993), THE IRON HORSE (Ford. 1924), SKYFALL (Mendes. 2012), TORQUE (Khan. 2004), SPIDER-MAN 2 (Raimi. 2004), VON RYAN'S EXPRESS (Robson. 1965), THE STATION AGENT (McCarthy. 2003), DAYS OF HEAVEN (Malick. 1978), THE LADY VANISHES (Hitchcock. 1938), THE FALL (Tarsem. 2008), THE LOST BOYS (Schumacher. 1987), THE GENERAL (Keaton. 1926), TOY STORY 3 (Unkrich. 2010), THE LONE RANGER (Verbinski. 2013), BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (Zemeckis. 1990), HUGO (Scorsese. 2011), SOURCE CODE (Jones. 2011), SUPER 8 (2011), LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Lean. 1962), BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (George Roy Hill. 1969), CHE (Soderbergh. 2008), GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Dante. 1990), UNSTOPPABLE (Scott. 2010), THE TRAIN (Frankenheimer. 1964), GEORGE WASHINGTON (David Gordon Green. 2000), ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Leone. 1969), SPIDER (Cronenberg. 2002), L'ARRIVEE D'UN TRAIN EN GARE DE LA CIOTAT (Lumiere. 1895), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: Director Cut (Oz. 1986), NIGHT TRAIN (Jerzy Kawalerowicz. 1959), MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (De Palma. 1996), EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (Aldrich. 1973), SHOAH (Lanzmann. 1985), THE LONG RIDERS (Hill. 1980), WHICH WAY HOME (Cammisa. 2009), DIL SE.. (Ratnam. 1998), INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE (Spielberg. 1989), DAYS OF HEAVEN (Malick. 1978), BLIND CHANCE (Kieslowski. 1981), THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE (Lyon. 1956), THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson. 2007), SUPERMAN (Donner. 1978), PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Burton. 1985)