trailer break: ‘Winter’s Bone’Take a break from work: watch a trailer... It just drives me crazy that this is relegated to arthouses and will be seen by so few people. Crap like Jonah Hex -- which everyone involved knew was crap before it even started shooting -- opens on thousands of screens. But a film like this one expanded last weekend to a whole 39 screens (and had a better per-screen average than any wide release except Toy Story 3). In the 1970s, a movie like this would have been considered a big deal, a real event for mainstream moviegoers. Today, it’s considered niche. It’s an American story about American reality -- it isn’t even subtitled! And it’s not considered commercial. Really depressing. How did we get so stupid? I’m dying to see this, and hope to get to it soon. Winter’s Bone is now playing in the U.S. and Canada; no U.K. release date has been announced. support
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posted by Deacon Jones (Tue Jun 22 10, 2:27PM)
I hope you like this movie when you see it, MaryAnn. I saw it at a film festival and I was really impressed. I grew up in Tennessee, but not necessarily in the rural areas where this film was set (it was shot in Missouri, if I remember correctly). Still, I knew of communities and folks like these, and I found it authentic.
I won't spoil, but I want to comment on my appreciation of how the filmmakers depicted an undercurrent of violence running throughout the movie, but don't take it to where you think it will go.