Bentley’s Dreams examines a quiet life bravely lived In adapting Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams, director Clint Bentley has pulled off a small miracle. This quiet, touching film runs counter to so many accepted notions of what makes up a movie. The plot, such as it is, is rather bare, the incidents that propel it […]
William H. Macy
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The Sessions survives narrative oversight
You’d have to be a hardhearted individual indeed not to be moved by Mark O’Brien’s story. Having contracted polio at the age of six, the writer spends most of his time confined in an iron lung, a prison he’s dependent on for up to 19 hours a day. Yet, this hardly proves to be an […]
