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

Here a logger called Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) ekes out a tough, often isolated living, moving with the work to logging ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

I’m particularly thinking of it today because I’ve just seen “Train Dreams,” a movie that follows the generally mundane life of a man, in which nothing much happens and which I found deeply affecting.

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

For the past several years, it’s been increasingly hard to shake the growing sense that every word of every piece I’ve ever ...

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

Based on the eponymous novel, this drama centres around Logger Robert Grainier who is working to develop the railroad across ...