Train Dreams (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Clint Bentley, written by Greg Kwedar, Denis Johnson and Clint Bentley and starring Joel Edgerton, William H. Macy, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, ...

The director Clint Bentley discusses the conclusion to his film, which stars Joel Edgerton and is an Oscar nominee for best picture.

The films that feel like they’re giving you the entirety of a life, getting to the heart and soul of what it means to be a person, are few and far between, but they feel exceptional when they’re able ...

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For the past several years, it’s been increasingly hard to shake the growing sense that every word of every piece I’ve ever written has been, in accumulating ways, part of the writing of a eulogy for ...

Star Joel Edgerton and director Clint Bentley on how they channeled their "greatest fear" into one of the year's best-reviewed films.

Discover where Train Dreams was filmed as the Oscar-nominated Netflix drama brings Denis Johnson’s novella to life through stunning forests, railroads, and authentic logging locations.

“Train Dreams,” Clint Bentley’s glorious rendering of Denis Johnson’s elliptical novella borders on visual poetry as it profoundly observes one man’s existence. It’s a transcendent experience that ...

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In the opening moments of Train Dreams — both the film and the Denis Johnson novella it’s based on — it’s 1917. In the ensuing years (mainly through the 1940s, plus a few scenes in the late ’60s) we ...

The director Clint Bentley (Jockey, Sing Sing) was chatting about his film Train Dreams that’s been playing at the BFI London Film Festival. It’s based on a novella by Denis Johnson that first ...