{"id":1594,"date":"2007-03-04T23:13:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T03:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2007-03-05T01:16:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T05:16:02","slug":"subway-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/04\/subway-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone recently told me about a Hungarian movie called Kontrol<\/em><\/a>, which is set in and is all about people who work in the Budapest subway system. It made me think of the French movie Subway<\/em><\/a>, one of Luc Besson’s first movies, which is set almost entirely within the labyrinthine corridors of the Paris Metro.<\/p>\n

It made us wonder about other movies that are set primarily in subway systems. I’m wondering if our readers can help us in coming with other such feature films (in the spirit of Spacing<\/em>‘s upcoming “Public Space Invaders<\/a>” evening of public space movies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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