Winter’s Bone
Winter’s Bone opens tomorrow
Winter’s Bone will finally hit theatres tomorrow (Friday, June 11). It’s a limited release and chances are, you won’t get to see the film in the first week unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, so check your local listings.
Here is the theatrical release schedule (incomplete, but it’ll give you a rough idea), [...]
Winter’s Bone trailer & poster
Winter’s Bone has won a couple of new prizes this week: the Best Feature Film prize at the Palm Beach Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Independent Film Festival Boston.
The trailer hit the web earlier this week too. You can see it on The New York Times site.
And here is the poster, [...]
Winter’s Bone wins Grand Jury Prize at Florida Film Festival
Winter’s Bone won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the Florida Film Festival, which closed on Sunday.
Go here for the complete list of winners and pics from the closing ceremony.
The film also nabbed the Special Jury Prize at the Sarasota Film Festival this weekend. Herald Tribune has a brief report.
New film in development: Arkansas Traveler (and other updates)
The news I mentioned yesterday:
Garret has a new film in development called Arkansas Traveler. It’s a western written by Deadwood’s Sean Bridgers, still in the development stage, with Bridgers and Angela Bettis also attached to star. (Go here for the synopsis.)
Last week, they filmed an extended trailer for the film. Blue Springs Journal was there [...]
Winter’s Bone wins a prize at Berlinale
Two quick updates today.
Winter’s Bone has won an independent jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival, which closes on Sunday.
The independent juries judging the line-up for the 60th Berlin International Film Festival spread the joy far and wide this year, picking an eclectic mix of titles from across all the Berlinale sections.
The FIPRESCI association of [...]
Winter’s Bone: Release date, soundtrack, SXSW screenings
Looks like Winter’s Bone will be released in the U.S. sooner rather than later.
Winter’s Bone, recipient of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, will get a June 2010 release from Roadside Attractions. [Pretty-Scary.net]
This is also confirmed on the film’s official page: www.wintersbonemovie.com.
For a preview [...]
Oliver Sherman going to Berlinale
Looks like Oliver Sherman will be getting some promotion at the Berlin Film Festival, too. I can’t find anything about it being screened there (it’s still in post-production), but the film will be part of the Canada at Berlinale 2010 program and probably looking for a European distributor.
The film now also has a page on [...]
Winter’s Bone added to SXSW lineup
Winter’s Bone will be screened at the South by Southwest festival in Austin in March as part of the Festival Favorites program. If you’re thinking of going, the complete SXSW 2010 schedule will probably show up here one of these days. This year, the festival runs from March 12 to 21.
Before that, the film will [...]
Winter’s Bone wins at Sundance
Winter’s Bone won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this weekend and also a Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, which went to Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini.
Roadside Attractions snagged the domestic distribution rights and the film is now expected to see the light of day in the summer, at least in the U.S.
The press release: [...]
Winter’s Bone – first reviews (updated)
Winter’s Bone was screened at Sundance yesterday and the first reviews are pretty positive. Some snippets below.
A teenage girl’s resilience in the face of seemingly insurmountable physical and emotional obstacles just barely wards off the icy chill that cuts through “Winter’s Bone,” director Debra Granik’s bleak and exemplary sophomore feature. Following its brave heroine (an [...]
