Train Dreams is a novella by Denis Johnson. It was published on August 30, 2011, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [2] It was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Summer 2002 issue of The Paris Review. [3] [4]

Jan 28, 2025 · Train Dreams requires patience. It’s a slow, meandering yet intimate exploration of the American West in the early the 20th century. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Terrence Malick, director Clint Bentley adapts the screenplay (with co-writer Greg Kwedar) from Denis Johnson’s novel.The film is visually gorgeous, with some of the best cinematography at this …

Jan 30, 2025 · Train Dreams is based on the 2011 Denis Johnson novella and directed by Oscar nominee Clint Bentley, who co-adapted the script with Greg Kwedar. It follows Robert Grainer, an average man living in ...

Train Dreams is a 2025 American drama film directed by Clint Bentley and starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones. It is an adaptation by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar of the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson .

Jan 26, 2025 · “Train Dreams” depicts that give-and-take dynamic, celebrating those who tamed the West — men whose anonymous, sunburned mugs appeared in antique photos, no bigger than Lincoln’s head on ...

May 22, 2012 · Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West―its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders―this extraordinary novella poignantly captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

Jan 1, 2002 · Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times.

Aug 30, 2011 · Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—this extraordinary novella poignantly captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

May 9, 2024 · Adapted from a novel set in the Idaho Panhandle, “Train Dreams” is filming in Eastern Washington and will begin its shoot in Spokane later this week.

Sep 6, 2012 · Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world.