""Joel can say so much with his face and with his eyes," said Bentley. "I love... taking this story of what would be seen from the outside as a little life and showing - without overly dramatizing it - the magic and the specialness and the depth of that simple life and the beauty of it.""
""I wanted to make it a period movie," he said. "I wanted to make it an opera. I wanted to make it big. And I said, 'Fuck it. I either do it that way or I don't fucking do it'.""
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar adapted Denis Johnson's novella Train Dreams into a film that won Spirit Awards for Best Feature, Director, and Cinematography and earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Cinematography, Song, and Adapted Screenplay. The film follows a taciturn man's life from 1917 Idaho to 1968 Washington and centers on subtle, expressive performance. Guillermo del Toro adapted Mary Shelley's Frankenstein into a nine-nominated film by embracing a period, operatic, large-scale approach, with Netflix enabling the production. Both films emphasize restrained acting, visual storytelling, and ambitious directorial choices.
Read at IndieWire
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]