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Watched "Train Dreams" last night. 2023, director Clint Bentley. Based on the novella by Denis Johnson.
I had avoided watching this film because I knew it would require my full emotional attention, and I wasn't sure I could give it that attention.
Do not miss this film.
This film is a poem. Let it speak to you.
A film that shows a life lived with few words.
(The life lived had few words. The film showing it has few words.)
A film about loss and grief, among other things. The deepest loss, the deepest grief. Also about work, racism, integrity, friendship, all those things, each quietly allowed to show itself.
A long, quiet, sad, life-affirming poem. An elegy.
#TrainDreams #ClintBentley #film #movies #loss #grief #elegy
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Watched "Train Dreams" last night. 2023, director Clint Bentley. Based on the novella by Denis Johnson.
I had avoided watching this film because I knew it would require my full emotional attention, and I wasn't sure I could give it that attention.
Do not miss this film.
This film is a poem. Let it speak to you.
A film that shows a life lived with few words.
(The life lived had few words. The film showing it has few words.)
A film about loss and grief, among other things. The deepest loss, the deepest grief. Also about work, racism, integrity, friendship, all those things, each quietly allowed to show itself.
A long, quiet, sad, life-affirming poem. An elegy.
#TrainDreams #ClintBentley #film #movies #loss #grief #elegy
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🎬 #ClintBentley #DenisJohnson #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones
La #película, y la #bandasonora, maravilla pura.
The #movie, and the #soundtrack, pure wonder.
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‘Train Dreams’ Producer Ashley Schlaifer Reveals The Story Of Shepherding The Indie Best Picture Oscar Nominee From Book To Screen
#News #AshleySchlaifer #Awardsdialogue #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #GregKwedar #JoelEdgerton #KerryCondon #QA #TrainDreams #WilliamHMacyhttps://deadline.com/2026/03/train-dreams-producer-ashley-schlaifer-best-picture-1236752806/
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‘Train Dreams’ Producer Ashley Schlaifer Reveals The Story Of Shepherding The Indie Best Picture Oscar Nominee From Book To Screen
#News #AshleySchlaifer #Awardsdialogue #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #GregKwedar #JoelEdgerton #KerryCondon #QA #TrainDreams #WilliamHMacyhttps://deadline.com/2026/03/train-dreams-producer-ashley-schlaifer-best-picture-1236752806/
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‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley Recalls Support from His Crew During a Grueling Shoot: ‘Don’t Limit Yourself. Let Reality Limit You’
#IndieWire #EventsHollywoodandEntertainment #News #ClintBentley #Film #SpiritAwards2026 #TrainDreams -
41st Independent Spirit Awards Offer Deserved Wins and Plenty of Surprises
#Adolescence #AwardShow #ClintBentley #EgoNwodim #EvaVictor #IfIHadLegsIdKickYou #IndependentSpiritAwards #KayoMartin #Lurker #MovieNews #NaomiAckie #PeeweeasHimself #RoseByrne #SorryBaby #TheLongWalk #ThePlague #TheSecretAgent #TheTestamentofAnnLee #TrainDreams
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41st Independent Spirit Awards Offer Deserved Wins and Plenty of Surprises
#Adolescence #AwardShow #ClintBentley #EgoNwodim #EvaVictor #IfIHadLegsIdKickYou #IndependentSpiritAwards #KayoMartin #Lurker #MovieNews #NaomiAckie #PeeweeasHimself #RoseByrne #SorryBaby #TheLongWalk #ThePlague #TheSecretAgent #TheTestamentofAnnLee #TrainDreams
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Spirit Awards: ‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley Credits Films for “Putting Goodness Into the World” While It “Feels Like It’s On Fire”
#MovieNews #Movies #Awards #ClintBentley #Filmindependentspiritawards #IndependentSpiritAwards #Spiritawards2026 #TrainDreams -
Spirit Awards: ‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley Credits Films for “Putting Goodness Into the World” While It “Feels Like It’s On Fire”
#MovieNews #Movies #Awards #ClintBentley #Filmindependentspiritawards #IndependentSpiritAwards #Spiritawards2026 #TrainDreams -
Adapting ‘Train Dreams’: Clint Bentley on Why Changing One of the ‘Greatest Endings in Literature’ Mattered
#IndieWire #Features #Podcast #Awards #ClintBentley #Film #FilmmakerToolkitPodcast #TrainDreamshttps://www.indiewire.com/features/podcast/why-train-dreams-changed-books-ending-1235178064/
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Train Dreams (Clint Bentley, 2025)
Haunting and poetic. Bentley captures America when old ways transitioned to new.
Read Full review on #Larrys100: https://write.as/larrys100/train-dreams-clint-bentley-2025
#film #movies #cinema #Oscars2026 #AmericanCinema #NickCave #ClintBentley #LiteraryAdaptation #100DaysToOffload
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Train Dreams (Clint Bentley, 2025)
Haunting and poetic. Bentley captures America when old ways transitioned to new.
Read Full review on #Larrys100: https://write.as/larrys100/train-dreams-clint-bentley-2025
#film #movies #cinema #Oscars2026 #AmericanCinema #NickCave #ClintBentley #LiteraryAdaptation #100DaysToOffload
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Clint Bentley Says Joel Edgerton Oscar Snub Makes ‘Train Dreams’ Best Picture Nod “Bittersweet”
#MovieNews #Movies #Awards #ClintBentley #JoelEdgerton #Netflix #Oscarnominations #Oscarnominations2026 #Oscars #Oscars2026 #TrainDreams -
Clint Bentley Says Joel Edgerton Oscar Snub Makes ‘Train Dreams’ Best Picture Nod “Bittersweet”
#MovieNews #Movies #Awards #ClintBentley #JoelEdgerton #Netflix #Oscarnominations #Oscarnominations2026 #Oscars #Oscars2026 #TrainDreams -
‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley And DoP Adolpho Veloso React To Their Film’s Four Oscar Nominations: “It Came From The Heart”
#News #AdolphoVeloso #Awardsnews #ClintBentley #GregKwedar #JoelEdgerton #Oscar #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2026/01/train-dreams-clint-bentley-adolpho-veloso-oscar-nominations-1236693680/
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‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley And DoP Adolpho Veloso React To Their Film’s Four Oscar Nominations: “It Came From The Heart”
#News #AdolphoVeloso #Awardsnews #ClintBentley #GregKwedar #JoelEdgerton #Oscar #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2026/01/train-dreams-clint-bentley-adolpho-veloso-oscar-nominations-1236693680/
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Clint Bentley on Making ‘Train Dreams,’ Selling His Movie to Netflix and What’s Next
#MovieFeatures #Movies #ClintBentley #ColmanDomingo #Gregkwedar #JoachimTrier #JoelEdgerton #Netflix #SingSing #Spielberg #Sundance #TrainDreams -
Clint Bentley on Making ‘Train Dreams,’ Selling His Movie to Netflix and What’s Next
#MovieFeatures #Movies #ClintBentley #ColmanDomingo #Gregkwedar #JoachimTrier #JoelEdgerton #Netflix #SingSing #Spielberg #Sundance #TrainDreams -
How ‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley, DP Adolpho Veloso & Composer Bryce Dessner Tamed Mother Nature And Made Her A Star – Crew Call Live
#BelowTheLine #News #AdolphoVeloso #BryceDessner #ClintBentley #CrewCall #TrainDreams -
How ‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley, DP Adolpho Veloso & Composer Bryce Dessner Tamed Mother Nature And Made Her A Star – Crew Call Live
#BelowTheLine #News #AdolphoVeloso #BryceDessner #ClintBentley #CrewCall #TrainDreams -
‘Train Dreams’: Read The Screenplay For ‘Sing Sing’ Duo’s Latest Journey To A Particular Time And Place
#News #ClintBentley #GregKwedar #Netflix #ReadTheScreenplay #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2026/01/train-dreams-script-clint-bentley-greg-kwedar-1236678253/
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‘Train Dreams’: Read The Screenplay For ‘Sing Sing’ Duo’s Latest Journey To A Particular Time And Place
#News #ClintBentley #GregKwedar #Netflix #ReadTheScreenplay #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2026/01/train-dreams-script-clint-bentley-greg-kwedar-1236678253/
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Bryce Dessner and His ‘Train Dreams’ Score Prove It: Live Orchestra Film Screenings Are the Best Awards Season Events
#IndieWire #Awards #Industry #BryceDessner #ClintBentley #Film #Netflix #TrainDreams -
Bryce Dessner and His ‘Train Dreams’ Score Prove It: Live Orchestra Film Screenings Are the Best Awards Season Events
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Bryce Dessner and His ‘Train Dreams’ Score Prove It: Live Orchestra Film Screenings Are the Best Awards Season Events
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‘Train Dreams’: Music Video for Nick Cave’s Theme Song Features Unseen Footage From Film’s Shoot (Exclusive)
#MovieNews #Movies #BryceDessner #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #Music #Musicvideo #Netflix #NickCave #TrainDreams -
‘Train Dreams’: Music Video for Nick Cave’s Theme Song Features Unseen Footage From Film’s Shoot (Exclusive)
#MovieNews #Movies #BryceDessner #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #Music #Musicvideo #Netflix #NickCave #TrainDreams -
Writers Roundtable: Bradley Cooper, Guillermo del Toro and More Talk Crafting “Infectious” Dialogue and Scripting as Grief Therapy
#MovieFeatures #Movies #Ahouseofdynamite #Awards #BradleyCooper #Bugonia #ClintBentley #Frankenstein #GuillermodelToro #Hikari #Isthisthingon #NoahOppenheim #RentalFamily #Roundtables #THROriginalVideo #TrainDreams #WriterRoundtable -
Writers Roundtable: Bradley Cooper, Guillermo del Toro and More Talk Crafting “Infectious” Dialogue and Scripting as Grief Therapy
#MovieFeatures #Movies #Ahouseofdynamite #Awards #BradleyCooper #Bugonia #ClintBentley #Frankenstein #GuillermodelToro #Hikari #Isthisthingon #NoahOppenheim #RentalFamily #Roundtables #THROriginalVideo #TrainDreams #WriterRoundtable -
Train Dreams: A Review
So much can go wrong in life. Big things. Little things. Depending on your station in life what goes wrong determines so much of what comes after, it often tears at hope in our search for a peaceful existence. Train Dreams, directed and co-written by Clint Bentley, set in a more challenging era than our own, focuses on the big things and little things that shape us, in a revealing and poetic story of the life of one man.
In its small singular focus the film expansively embraces the life of an Idaho man who has never traveled far from home, through tough times, tragedies and the moments that define a life in the way trees populate a forest. If that sounds depressing, it’s the exact opposite. The cinematography by Adolpho Veloso and the acting take flight and lift the story far beyond the gritty and tangled undergrowth of the life it inhabits.
It’s a gorgeous film to watch that beautifully captures the mountainous northwest as it follows this lumberjack plying his trade, clearing trees to make lumber for the construction of the Spokane International Railway. It’s a dangerous life and one that takes him away for stretches of time from the family he eventually builds. The mostly peaceful vistas and views contrast with the travails seemingly necessary for this man to build a simple life, at times as sharply shocking as a gunshot in a quiet wilderness. Yet we’re reminded that all of that work literally is overtaken as the years go by with new growth replacing old.
The cast is superb. Joel Edgerton plays the lead, Robert Grainer, in a brilliant performance proving less is always more. Felicity Jones plays his wife, breathing life into him and the story. William H. Macy is exquisite as an older logger in the camps dispensing well worn wisdom. Much of the story is accompanied by the best use of narration I’ve heard in a movie, voiced by Will Patton. It comes and goes like a breeze through the trees seemingly perfectly natural and undisturbing each time it wafts in.
This movie is not going to be for everyone simply because its success requires participation in an almost passive vein. It doesn’t propel us into story telling, it lays it out for us to observe like viewing a valley unfolding beneath from a mountain perch. It’s not fast paced. It’s revelations come in a visual poetry that astounds, capturing the complexity of nature and how simple our small part of it really is, no matter how large or important we view the roles we play in the dramas we create for ourselves.
In the insanely paced tumultuous times we now find ourselves it offers a moment of exquisite reflection exemplified by two mirroring lines of dialogue. “The world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things,” says Macy’s character around a campfire. That echoes back again towards the end, when a Forest Service worker reminds Grainer and us that “every least thing’s important.”
Both challenge the wisdom behind the cliché that tells us we can’t see the forest for the trees. But then the bigger picture of a life is always made of smaller moments stitched together if we pay attention.
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
#ClintBentley #felicityJones #Film #JoelEdgerton #Movies #Nature #TrainDreams
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Train Dreams: A Review
So much can go wrong in life. Big things. Little things. Depending on your station in life what goes wrong determines so much of what comes after, it often tears at hope in our search for a peaceful existence. Train Dreams, directed and co-written by Clint Bentley, set in a more challenging era than our own, focuses on the big things and little things that shape us, in a revealing and poetic story of the life of one man.
In its small singular focus the film expansively embraces the life of an Idaho man who has never traveled far from home, through tough times, tragedies and the moments that define a life in the way trees populate a forest. If that sounds depressing, it’s the exact opposite. The cinematography by Adolpho Veloso and the acting take flight and lift the story far beyond the gritty and tangled undergrowth of the life it inhabits.
It’s a gorgeous film to watch that beautifully captures the mountainous northwest as it follows this lumberjack plying his trade, clearing trees to make lumber for the construction of the Spokane International Railway. It’s a dangerous life and one that takes him away for stretches of time from the family he eventually builds. The mostly peaceful vistas and views contrast with the travails seemingly necessary for this man to build a simple life, at times as sharply shocking as a gunshot in a quiet wilderness. Yet we’re reminded that all of that work literally is overtaken as the years go by with new growth replacing old.
The cast is superb. Joel Edgerton plays the lead, Robert Grainer, in a brilliant performance proving less is always more. Felicity Jones plays his wife, breathing life into him and the story. William H. Macy is exquisite as an older logger in the camps dispensing well worn wisdom. Much of the story is accompanied by the best use of narration I’ve heard in a movie, voiced by Will Patton. It comes and goes like a breeze through the trees seemingly perfectly natural and undisturbing each time it wafts in.
This movie is not going to be for everyone simply because its success requires participation in an almost passive vein. It doesn’t propel us into story telling, it lays it out for us to observe like viewing a valley unfolding beneath from a mountain perch. It’s not fast paced. It’s revelations come in a visual poetry that astounds, capturing the complexity of nature and how simple our small part of it really is, no matter how large or important we view the roles we play in the dramas we create for ourselves.
In the insanely paced tumultuous times we now find ourselves it offers a moment of exquisite reflection exemplified by two mirroring lines of dialogue. “The world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things,” says Macy’s character around a campfire. That echoes back again towards the end, when a Forest Service worker reminds Grainer and us that “every least thing’s important.”
Both challenge the wisdom behind the cliché that tells us we can’t see the forest for the trees. But then the bigger picture of a life is always made of smaller moments stitched together if we pay attention.
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
#ClintBentley #felicityJones #Film #JoelEdgerton #Movies #Nature #TrainDreams
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Deadline’s Disruptors In Film At SVFF: ‘Train Dreams’ Clint Bentley And Greg Kwedar Reveal Their Groundbreaking Approach To Filmmaking
#News #ClintBentley #GregKwedar #Jockey #JoelEdgerton #KerryCondon #Netflix #SingSing #SunValleyFilmFestival #SVFF #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2025/12/svff-awards-train-dreams-clint-bentley-greg-kwedar-1236642510/
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Deadline’s Disruptors In Film At SVFF: ‘Train Dreams’ Clint Bentley And Greg Kwedar Reveal Their Groundbreaking Approach To Filmmaking
#News #ClintBentley #GregKwedar #Jockey #JoelEdgerton #KerryCondon #Netflix #SingSing #SunValleyFilmFestival #SVFF #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2025/12/svff-awards-train-dreams-clint-bentley-greg-kwedar-1236642510/
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Kerry Condon On Finding The Perfect Vehicles In ‘Train Dreams’ And ‘F1: The Movie’: “Timing Is Everything, Isn’t It?”
#News #Awardsdialogue #BradPitt #ClintBentley #F1TheMovie #JoelEdgerton #KerryCondon #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2025/12/kerry-condon-interview-train-dreams-f1-the-movie-1236631705/
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Kerry Condon On Finding The Perfect Vehicles In ‘Train Dreams’ And ‘F1: The Movie’: “Timing Is Everything, Isn’t It?”
#News #Awardsdialogue #BradPitt #ClintBentley #F1TheMovie #JoelEdgerton #KerryCondon #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2025/12/kerry-condon-interview-train-dreams-f1-the-movie-1236631705/
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‘Train Dreams’ Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso Shot the Film Using 99% of Natural Light
#Variety #News #ClintBentley #InsidetheFrame #TrainDreamshttps://variety.com/2025/film/news/train-dreams-cinematographer-adolpho-veloso-1236600154/
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‘Train Dreams’ Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso Shot the Film Using 99% of Natural Light
#Variety #News #ClintBentley #InsidetheFrame #TrainDreamshttps://variety.com/2025/film/news/train-dreams-cinematographer-adolpho-veloso-1236600154/
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Train Dreams Review: A Life in Fragments
Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella, is one of those rare literary-to-film transitions that feels both delicate and vast—an intimate portrait delivered on an epic historical canvas....
#ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #TrainDreams #WilliamHMacy
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Train Dreams Review: A Life in Fragments
Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella, is one of those rare literary-to-film transitions that feels both delicate and vast—an intimate portrait delivered on an epic historical canvas....
#ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #TrainDreams #WilliamHMacy
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Train Dreams Review: A Life in Fragments
Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella, is one of those rare literary-to-film transitions that feels both delicate and vast—an intimate portrait delivered on an epic historical canvas....
#ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #TrainDreams #WilliamHMacy
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‘Train Dreams’ Final Trailer: Joel Edgerton Watches The World Change Before His Eyes In ‘Sing Sing’ Duo’s American West Tale
#News #Trailers #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #GregKwedar #JoelEdgerton #Netflix #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2025/11/train-dreams-trailer-joel-edgerton-1236572723/
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‘Train Dreams’ Final Trailer: Joel Edgerton Watches The World Change Before His Eyes In ‘Sing Sing’ Duo’s American West Tale
#News #Trailers #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #GregKwedar #JoelEdgerton #Netflix #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2025/11/train-dreams-trailer-joel-edgerton-1236572723/
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‘Train Dreams’ Review: Clint Bentley’s Moving Tale Of Love And Loss Is One From The Heart
#Reviews #CliftonCollinsJr #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #Review #TrainDreams #WilliamHMacy -
‘Train Dreams’ Review: Clint Bentley’s Moving Tale Of Love And Loss Is One From The Heart
#Reviews #CliftonCollinsJr #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #Review #TrainDreams #WilliamHMacy -
‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley on Losing His Parents Before Filming: ‘They Didn’t Feel Like Dreams. They Felt Like Visitations.’
#Variety #Awards #Podcasts #AwardsCircuitPodcast #ClintBentley #JoelEdgerton #Oscars #TrainDreamshttps://variety.com/2025/film/podcasts/clint-bentley-train-dreams-grief-parents-1236557998/
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‘Train Dreams’ Director Clint Bentley on Losing His Parents Before Filming: ‘They Didn’t Feel Like Dreams. They Felt Like Visitations.’
#Variety #Awards #Podcasts #AwardsCircuitPodcast #ClintBentley #JoelEdgerton #Oscars #TrainDreamshttps://variety.com/2025/film/podcasts/clint-bentley-train-dreams-grief-parents-1236557998/
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Joel Edgerton Isn’t Fazed by Hollywood’s Box-Office Panic: “I’d Be the Worst Studio Executive of All Time”
#MovieFeatures #Movies #Boxoffice #BoyErased #ClintBentley #JoelEdgerton #Loving #MiddleburgFilmFestival #OneBattleAfterAnother #TimotheeChalamet #TrainDreams -
Joel Edgerton Isn’t Fazed by Hollywood’s Box-Office Panic: “I’d Be the Worst Studio Executive of All Time”
#MovieFeatures #Movies #Boxoffice #BoyErased #ClintBentley #JoelEdgerton #Loving #MiddleburgFilmFestival #OneBattleAfterAnother #TimotheeChalamet #TrainDreams -
Joel Edgerton & Felicity Jones Keep Us On Track With Clint Bentley’s Movie Gem, ‘Train Dreams’
#News #AwardsNews #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #LondonFilmFestival #Netflix #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2025/10/joel-edgerton-felicity-jones-train-dreams-movie-netflix-1236584427/
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Joel Edgerton & Felicity Jones Keep Us On Track With Clint Bentley’s Movie Gem, ‘Train Dreams’
#News #AwardsNews #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #LondonFilmFestival #Netflix #TrainDreamshttps://deadline.com/2025/10/joel-edgerton-felicity-jones-train-dreams-movie-netflix-1236584427/
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Chicago International Film Festival to Host Convergence of International Auteurs for Panel
#MovieNews #Movies #Chicago #ChicagoFilmFestival #ClintBentley #GusVanSant #Hikari #JoelEdgerton #KellyReichardt #SethAbramovitch #SpikeLee -
Chicago International Film Festival to Host Convergence of International Auteurs for Panel
#MovieNews #Movies #Chicago #ChicagoFilmFestival #ClintBentley #GusVanSant #Hikari #JoelEdgerton #KellyReichardt #SethAbramovitch #SpikeLee -
TRAIN DREAMS (2025) Movie Trailer 2: Joel Edgerton & Felicity Jones are a family in Early 20th Century America
Link: https://film-book.com/train-dreams-2025-movie-trailer-2-joel-edgerton/?fsp_sid=89255
#CliftonCollinsJr. #ClintBentley #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #JohnDiehl #KerryCondon #MovieTrailer #NathanielArcand #Netflix #PaulSchneider #TrainDreams #WillPatton #WilliamH.Macy
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Watch Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones in the new trailer for Train Dreams https://bit.ly/3IZna9b
#TrainDreams #film #book #FelicityJones #JoelEdgerton #ClintBentley #DenisJohnson #Netflix