Train Dreams follows the life of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who lives in the forests of the Pacific Northwest during the early 20th century.

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

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

Filmmaking duo Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar tell low-key stories about dreamers. Teaming with actor Joel Edgerton, they went ...

Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones shine in Clint Bentley's haunting "Train Dreams," but it's William H. Macy who gives the ...

The Australian actor grew up on the edge of a forest and never quite left it behind. Now, with ‘Train Dreams’ on Netflix, ...

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

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

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

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 ...