Marathon

It's hard to believe that this oddly mesmerizing film, set in large part in the vast subway system that snakes its way through Manhattan and its outer boroughs, wasn't made by a native New Yorker. Although it perfectly captures a particular state of mind that comes from a lifetime spent riding the IRT, BMT and IND trains, the truth is that this cool, 76-minute feature is the work of expatriate Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi, whose THE RUNNER (1984) is generally considered a watershed in the development of Iran's post-Revolution cinema. Since his relocation to New York City in the 1980s, Naderi has been working on a series of features about his adopted home and this la...