Train Dreams: How Clint Bentley Transformed Denis Johnson’s Pulitzer-Nominated Novella into Cinematic Poetry
In the vast, quiet landscape of early 20th-century American logging, stories often go untold. Denis Johnson’s ethereal novella Train Dreams is one such story – a tender exploration of Robert Grainier’s life as an itereant logger that seemed to exist in the liminal spaces between nostalgia, myth, and harsh reality. When filmmaker Clint Bentley (Sing […]
How Filmmakers Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley Approached The Rehabilitation Through The Arts Program In “Sing Sing”
Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) is a unique program at the infamous maximum security Sing Sing prison where inmates find peace, purpose and presence in their lives through the magic of theater. Filmmakers Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley make films about human connection in impossible places as seen in their movies Transpecos and Jockey. A […]
