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Denis Johnson’s novella becomes a resonant and sensitive film about a lumberjack and his family in early 20th-century Idaho ...

Train Dreams follows the life of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who lives in the forests of the Pacific ...

All of it,” the lovely simplicity of his description doesn’t hit home until we realize he is talking about life itself. In a ...

From the first images of a hand-felled tree, destruction, change, and transformation define Train Dreams. Ironically, so does ...

“Train Dreams” is a film about America, a sumptuous from-the-ground-up vision of progress in the early to mid-20th century.

Train Dreams, 2025. Directed by Clint Bentley. Starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Clifton ...

This lyrical film based on Denis Johnson’s novella spans decades in the life of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger in ...

Visually, it evokes the golden reverie of Terrence Malick and the pioneering romanticism of Heaven’s Gate. The ...

Based on a 2011 novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is one of those rare films that tackles a so-called ordinary life and illuminates it as rich, complex and extraordinary. Joel Edgerton is Robert ...

What defines a life? Money and success? Happiness? Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams employs a narrator, much as Terrence Malick’s ...

According to Netflix's synopsis, Train Dreams is an adaptation of the "beloved novella by Denis Johnson". The story follows ...