Fort Worth is set to welcome a cinematic journey this fall as the Lone Star Film Festival opens its 2025 edition with “Train Dreams.” The film, Netflix\u2019s highly anticipated new feature starring Joel Edgerton, screens on Thursday, Oct. 30, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, with a post-film Q&A featuring Texas-born writer and director Clint Bentley, according to a release. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Based on Denis Johnson\u2019s acclaimed novella, “Train Dreams” traces the life of Robert Grainier (Edgerton), a man whose story unfolds alongside the sweeping changes of early 20th-century America. Orphaned young, Robert grows up in the vast forests of the Pacific Northwest, laboring on the nation\u2019s expanding railroads. Marriage to Gladys (Felicity Jones) and the start of a family bring new hopes \u2014 until an unexpected turn pushes him into a journey of hardship, beauty, and self-discovery, reconnecting with the forests he once helped to fell.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar, both Texas natives and the creative team behind the Academy Award\u00ae-nominated “Sing Sing,”<\/a> craft a film that celebrates the extraordinary within the ordinary. The cast also features William H. Macy and Kerry Condon, adding depth to a story steeped in quiet resilience and vanishing ways of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n Produced by Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, William Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer, and Michael Heimler, with Edgerton among the executive producers, “Train Dreams” highlights Texas talent making waves in Hollywood. Bentley and Kwedar brought “Sing Sing” to last year\u2019s Lone Star Film Festival, earning three Oscar nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Bentley even presented Kwedar with the Maverick Award, a nod to Texas filmmakers leaving their mark on the national stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n