Breaking Baz: ‘Train Dreams’ Brazilian DoP Adolpho Veloso Says His Country Is Celebrating Oscar Nominations “Like It’s A World Cup”

Breaking Baz: ‘Train Dreams’ Brazilian DoP Adolpho Veloso Says His Country Is Celebrating Oscar Nominations “Like It’s A World Cup”

EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian Adolpho Veloso, the Academy Award- and BAFTA-nominated cinematographer of Train Dreams, declares that his country has World Cup-like Oscar fever. “This whole Oscar thing is so big in Brazil,” he says, “that people are celebrating everything, like it’s a World Cup!” Veloso adds: “I think is amazing because suddenly we are celebrating culture and art like we used to celebrate only football, which is also amazing. I’m a big…

Five Cent Cine: Train Dreams

Train Dreams ★★★ (out of 4 stars) “Deep Thoughts” Despite its ethereal quality, director Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” has a plot. At the center of the story is Robert Grainier, a shy man when we meet him, without a past and of indeterminate age (the 50-year-old Australian Joel Edgerton hardly ages in 70 years on screen and never seems young), with no knowledge of his parents, orphaned as a boy. He finds work with other loners in mining camps, …