| Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 87 min |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Peter Alexander, Micheal Stipe, Jeri Alexander |
| Credits: | Directed by Christopher Munch |
| Awards: | Sundance Film Festival
Cinematography Award - Rob Sweeney (1996) |
Admirably living up to the promise of his first film, THE HOURS AND TIMES, Munch maps the transformation in American life with images that are at once intensely emotional and beautiful. Eighty years after Chinese laborers built the railroads that forged a new America, one of their descendents fights to save the short-line train through Yosemite Valley. To do so at the end of World War II, in an age enamored of automobiles, he must learn about racial identities, family, love and responsibility. These questions are played out here against a symphonic panorama of technology and nature. "Whether capturing the natural beauty of clouds and wilderness or the grand old trains that summon the vivid American past, the film's look is extraordinarily eloquent and pure." - Janet Maslin
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