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 […]