Join us for a special screening of two Academy Award nominated films from Netflix: Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams (presented on 35mm) and Sam Davis’ short The Singers. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the team behind Train Dreams—director Clint Bentley and cinematographer Adolpho Veloso.
In The Singers, an impromptu singing contest at a dive bar turns a lonely night into a soul-baring moment of shared harmony.
Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Golden Globe nominee Joel Edgerton), a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century. An ode to a vanishing way of life, an ever-evolving world, and to the extraordinary possibilities that exist within even the most simple of existences, Train Dreams captures a time and place that are now long gone, and the people who built a bridge to a future they could only dream of. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Clint Bentley with a screenplay by Bentley and Academy Award-nominee Greg Kwedar, (the writing team behind Sing Sing), and cinematography by Academy-Award nominee Adolpho Veloso, the film also stars Academy Award-nominees Felicity Jones, William H. Macy and Kerry Condon.
