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John Early has played a lot of flagrantly narcissistic, psychotic gay guys. Elliot Goss of Search Party. Terry Goon of Stress Positions. A heightened version of himself in his and frequent collaborator/Maddie’s Secret co-star Kate Berlant’s comedy special, Would It Kill You to Laugh?. In season three of The Comeback, he branched out by playing a psychotic straight guy, then did it again in his recent stage debut: Wallace Shawn’s off-Broadway play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days.

The generally agreed upon span for the Civil Rights Movement is from 1954 to 1968. The years primarily correspond to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal,” and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.

Since the moment it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival nearly twelve months ago, Clint Bentley’s Train Dreamshas received praise across Letterboxd reviews including phrases such as “soul-igniting”, “therapeutic”, “sprawling, tender”, or as Chris succinctly puts it, “wow”.