In the forests of the Idaho Panhandle in 1917, modernity is picking up steam. Train Dreams, based on a novella by Denis Johnson, tells the story of laborer Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a quiet, ...

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Clint Bentley's intimate historical drama, Train Dreams, is set in the age of the steam locomotive and westward expansion, and centers on a logger in the Pacific Northwest. One of the biggest movie ...

Directed by Clint Bentley Long before the Internet offered each of us a way to document our time on earth, previous generations left their handprints through their ...

From the first images of a hand-felled tree, destruction, change, and transformation define Train Dreams. Ironically, so does persistence. But though the theme might be familiar for filmmaker Clint ...

Train Dreams will begin a limited theatrical release on November 7 before debuting on Netflix on November 21. I would refer to Train Dreams as a movie that feels like a “great American novel,” except ...

One of the biggest movie sales at this year's Sundance film festival was for a meditative drama set in the Pacific Northwest. Critic Bob Mondello says the movie "Train Dreams," which opens this ...