Hollywood Hated It, Now It's an Oscar Contender: The 'Spiritual Western' Everyone's Talking About!
Explore the making of 'Train Dreams,' an unconventional 'western' starring Joel Edgerton as a stoical lumberjack in 1900s Idaho. Director Clint Bentley and Edgerton reveal the struggles of pitching a film about a non-heroic character with spiritual elements, and how its themes of work-life balance, grief, and the impermanence of human achievement deeply resonate with their own lives, leading to critical acclaim and unexpected Oscar buzz.
