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For The Love of the Force: Felicity Jones attending
#StarWars #FanthaTracks #monopolyevents #felicityjones #fortheloveoftheforce
Felicity Jones is heading to Manchester and For the Love of the Force.
Read the whole story at the below link:
https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/misc/for-the-love-of-the-force-felicity-jones-attending/
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For The Love of the Force: Felicity Jones attending
#StarWars #FanthaTracks #monopolyevents #felicityjones #fortheloveoftheforce
Felicity Jones is heading to Manchester and For the Love of the Force.
Read the whole story at the below link:
https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/misc/for-the-love-of-the-force-felicity-jones-attending/
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For The Love of the Force: Felicity Jones attending
#StarWars #FanthaTracks #monopolyevents #felicityjones #fortheloveoftheforce
Felicity Jones is heading to Manchester and For the Love of the Force.
Read the whole story at the below link:
https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/misc/for-the-love-of-the-force-felicity-jones-attending/
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For The Love of the Force: Felicity Jones attending
#StarWars #FanthaTracks #monopolyevents #felicityjones #fortheloveoftheforce
Felicity Jones is heading to Manchester and For the Love of the Force.
Read the whole story at the below link:
https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/misc/for-the-love-of-the-force-felicity-jones-attending/
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For The Love of the Force: Felicity Jones attending
#StarWars #FanthaTracks #monopolyevents #felicityjones #fortheloveoftheforce
Felicity Jones is heading to Manchester and For the Love of the Force.
Read the whole story at the below link:
https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/misc/for-the-love-of-the-force-felicity-jones-attending/
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https://www.europesays.com/it/659042/ Inferno stasera su Rai 2: trama, trailer, cast e dove vederlo #ben #BenFoster #capitolo #Entertainment #felicity #FelicityJones #FelicityJonesOmar #firenze #foster #hanks #howard #inferno #Intrattenimento #IT #Italia #Italy #Rai #ron #RonHoward #tom #TomHanks #tv
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90s kids TV legend recalls 'underage drinking' off set and admits 'there's no money left'
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/worst-witch-citv-harry-potter-37470076
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https://www.europesays.com/at/270373/ Die Promis beim Tennis – Glanz & Glamour! Hauch von Hollywood in Wimbledon – Kronen Zeitung #AnnaWintour #AT #Austria #BazLuhrmann #BenedictCumberbatch #britische #britischen #Celebrities #CharlesGuard #DamianLewis #Entertainment #FelicityJones #GeorgeMacKay #Hoffman #HughLaurie #JamesRighton #LesleyManville #LisaHoffman #LukeThompson #MartinFreeman #Österreich #Prominente #RamiMalek #RichardEGrant #RogueOne #TomFord #Unterhaltung #VirgilVanDijk #Vogue
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‘Plane’ and ‘The Bricklayer’ Actor Oliver Trevena Joins Felicity Jones and Vincent Cassel in Agatha Christie Mystery-Thriller ‘Eleven Missing Days’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #AgathaChristie #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://variety.com/2026/film/news/oliver-trevena-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-1236763888/
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‘Plane’ and ‘The Bricklayer’ Actor Oliver Trevena Joins Felicity Jones and Vincent Cassel in Agatha Christie Mystery-Thriller ‘Eleven Missing Days’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #AgathaChristie #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://variety.com/2026/film/news/oliver-trevena-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-1236763888/
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‘Plane’ and ‘The Bricklayer’ Actor Oliver Trevena Joins Felicity Jones and Vincent Cassel in Agatha Christie Mystery-Thriller ‘Eleven Missing Days’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #AgathaChristie #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://variety.com/2026/film/news/oliver-trevena-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-1236763888/
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‘Plane’ and ‘The Bricklayer’ Actor Oliver Trevena Joins Felicity Jones and Vincent Cassel in Agatha Christie Mystery-Thriller ‘Eleven Missing Days’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #AgathaChristie #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://variety.com/2026/film/news/oliver-trevena-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-1236763888/
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‘Plane’ and ‘The Bricklayer’ Actor Oliver Trevena Joins Felicity Jones and Vincent Cassel in Agatha Christie Mystery-Thriller ‘Eleven Missing Days’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #AgathaChristie #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://variety.com/2026/film/news/oliver-trevena-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-1236763888/
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https://www.europesays.com/hu/99985/ Agatha Christie eltűnéséről készül film, már megvan a főszereplő is #AgathaChristie #Celebrities #Entertainment #FelicityJones #film #Hírességek #HU #Hungarian #Hungary #Magyar #Magyarország #mozi #Szórakozás
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FELICITY JONES SE ENCARGARA DE DAR VIDA A LA ESCRITORA DE NOVELAS DE MISTERIO, AGATHA CHRISTIE.
Durante décadas, la desaparición de Agatha Christie ha permanecido suspendida entre la realidad y el mito, como si la propia autora hubiera terminado atrapada dentro de una de sus novelas. Ahora, ese episodio vuelve a cobrar vida en la gran pantalla con Eleven Missing Days, un thriller noir…
https://nuevoimagenesdeactualidad.blogspot.com/2026/05/felicity-jones-se-encargara-de-dar-vida.html
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Felicity Jones To Play Agatha Christie In ‘Eleven Missing Days’ About Author’s Mysterious Disappearance; Vincent Cassel Co-Stars With Fortitude Launching For Cannes Market
#News #AgathaChristie #Cannes #CannesMarket #ElevenMissingDays #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://deadline.com/2026/05/felicity-jones-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-film-1236892746/
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Felicity Jones To Play Agatha Christie In ‘Eleven Missing Days’ About Author’s Mysterious Disappearance; Vincent Cassel Co-Stars With Fortitude Launching For Cannes Market
#News #AgathaChristie #Cannes #CannesMarket #ElevenMissingDays #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://deadline.com/2026/05/felicity-jones-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-film-1236892746/
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Felicity Jones To Play Agatha Christie In ‘Eleven Missing Days’ About Author’s Mysterious Disappearance; Vincent Cassel Co-Stars With Fortitude Launching For Cannes Market
#News #AgathaChristie #Cannes #CannesMarket #ElevenMissingDays #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://deadline.com/2026/05/felicity-jones-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-film-1236892746/
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Felicity Jones To Play Agatha Christie In ‘Eleven Missing Days’ About Author’s Mysterious Disappearance; Vincent Cassel Co-Stars With Fortitude Launching For Cannes Market
#News #AgathaChristie #Cannes #CannesMarket #ElevenMissingDays #FelicityJones #VincentCasselhttps://deadline.com/2026/05/felicity-jones-agatha-christie-eleven-missing-days-film-1236892746/
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BBC iPlayer streaming 'must see' period drama about 'real life superhero'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/bbc-iplayer-streaming-must-see-37104526
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100 Nights of Hero, a fun feminist romp
100 Nights of Hero takes a feminist look at the Scheherazade story and turns it into a fairy tale about women's power, women's love, and women's stories. It's a fun watch for women, but I'm not sure men will enjoy it. […]https://oldaintdead.com/100-nights-of-hero-a-fun-feminist-romp/
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Alfre Woodard, J.K. Simmons, Felicity Jones Star in Arnaud Desplechin’s Paris-Set Bittersweet Comedy ‘The Thing That Hurts’
French auteur Arnaud Desplechin has started shooting his next feature, “The Thing That Hurts,” a…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Paris #AlfreWoodard #AndréHolland #ArnaudDesplechin #FelicityJones #GolshiftehFarahani #GrantMohrman #GravelLake #GravelLakeEntertainment #J.K.Simmons #JasonSchwartzman #KamenVelkovsky #NoémieMerlant #WesAnderson
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Best red carpet looks from Demi Moore, Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Buckley and more
OK, so maybe your favorite film didn’t come home with a little gold man, but you can’t sa…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Celebrities #BottegaVeneta #DemiMoore #emmastone #Entertainment #FelicityJones #GettyImages #KateHudson #KevinMazur #LouisVuitton #MichaelB.Jordan #MikeCoppola #NicoleKidman #redcarpet #RoseByrne #teyanataylor #TimotheeChalamet
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Best red carpet looks from Demi Moore, Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Buckley and more
OK, so maybe your favorite film didn’t come home with a little gold man, but you can’t sa…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Celebrities #BottegaVeneta #DemiMoore #emmastone #Entertainment #FelicityJones #GettyImages #KateHudson #KevinMazur #LouisVuitton #MichaelB.Jordan #MikeCoppola #NicoleKidman #redcarpet #RoseByrne #teyanataylor #TimotheeChalamet
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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’ 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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Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/why-train-dreams-should-win-the-best-picture-oscar #Film #FilmAdaptations #Oscars #Netflix #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones #TheNational #WilliamHMacy #Race #AwardsAndPrizes #Books #Culture #Music
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Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/why-train-dreams-should-win-the-best-picture-oscar #Film #FilmAdaptations #Oscars #Netflix #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones #TheNational #WilliamHMacy #Race #AwardsAndPrizes #Books #Culture #Music
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Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/why-train-dreams-should-win-the-best-picture-oscar #Film #FilmAdaptations #Oscars #Netflix #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones #TheNational #WilliamHMacy #Race #AwardsAndPrizes #Books #Culture #Music
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Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/why-train-dreams-should-win-the-best-picture-oscar #Film #FilmAdaptations #Oscars #Netflix #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones #TheNational #WilliamHMacy #Race #AwardsAndPrizes #Books #Culture #Music
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Starfury: Invasion 2026: Felicity Jones announced for Birmingham
#FelicityJones #StarfuryEvents #StarfuryInvasion #StarWars #FanthaTracks #starfuryinvasion #felicityjones #jynerso #rogueone
Starfury: Invasion 2026 anounces its first guest - Felicity Jones is returning to Birmingham.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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Starfury: Invasion 2026: Felicity Jones announced for Birmingham
#FelicityJones #StarfuryEvents #StarfuryInvasion #StarWars #FanthaTracks #starfuryinvasion #felicityjones #jynerso #rogueone
Starfury: Invasion 2026 anounces its first guest - Felicity Jones is returning to Birmingham.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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Starfury: Invasion 2026: Felicity Jones announced for Birmingham
#FelicityJones #StarfuryEvents #StarfuryInvasion #StarWars #FanthaTracks #starfuryinvasion #felicityjones #jynerso #rogueone
Starfury: Invasion 2026 anounces its first guest - Felicity Jones is returning to Birmingham.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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Starfury: Invasion 2026: Felicity Jones announced for Birmingham
#FelicityJones #StarfuryEvents #StarfuryInvasion #StarWars #FanthaTracks #starfuryinvasion #felicityjones #jynerso #rogueone
Starfury: Invasion 2026 anounces its first guest - Felicity Jones is returning to Birmingham.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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Starfury: Invasion 2026: Felicity Jones announced for Birmingham
#FelicityJones #StarfuryEvents #StarfuryInvasion #StarWars #FanthaTracks #starfuryinvasion #felicityjones #jynerso #rogueone
Starfury: Invasion 2026 anounces its first guest - Felicity Jones is returning to Birmingham.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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Warm up for Wuthering Heights with this enjoyably horny gothic fantasy
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Train Dreams, a life spent building America
Train Dreams is not the kind of film I usually pick to watch, but a reader suggested it had women in significant roles so I took a look. It turned out to be a beautiful film about life in a changing world during the first part of the 20th Century. There are spoilers ahead. […]https://oldaintdead.com/train-dreams-a-life-spent-building-america/
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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 -
‘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 -
‘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: 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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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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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.
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