BOISE, Idaho — Chugging through Idaho’s history, model railroad clubs in the Treasure Valley serve as places of community. The smaller-than-life trains at the Old Boise Model Railroad Club and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. Director-writer Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, with cowriter ...

Joel Edgerton brings a quiet soulfulness to "Train Dreams" that perfectly complements director Clint Bentley's meditative portrait of an unassuming logger making his way through early 20th century ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT "Train Dreams" tells the story of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger clearing forests for the railroad in the early 20th century Pacific Northwest. He lives with his wife Gladys ...

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, ...

Denis Johnson’s “Train Dreams” is one of those works of literature that is dismissed as unfilmable, until someone films it. And then come the questions of fidelity. Does being faithful mean ...

Clint Bentley's film is an adaptation of Denis Johnson's novella, about the toll of progress and the people left behind. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on ...

Joel Edgerton stars in a gorgeous film based on Denis Johnson’s celebrated novella about a laborer in the Pacific Northwest. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

“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 ...