{"id":416,"date":"2011-12-14T09:53:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2011-12-20T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:55:49","slug":"my-top-10-movies-of-2011-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"My top 10 movies of 2011 &#8211; SLATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Stevens, December 14, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005E7SEMU\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=slatmaga-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B005E7SEMU\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Buck<\/em><\/a>.<em> <\/em>Forget <em>War Horse<\/em>:<em> <\/em>Cindy Meehl\u2019s<em> <\/em>modest<em> <\/em>documentary was 2011\u2019s one-stop shop for equine uplift. Meehl follows the itinerant life of Buck Brannaman, the horse-training consultant who was the inspiration for the novel and movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0440222656\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=slatmaga-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0440222656\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Horse Whisperer<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>Brannaman survived a childhood of early loss and horrific abuse to grow into a preternaturally gentle man, the kind of born teacher you\u2019re lucky to study with once in a lifetime. His end-of-film encounter with a dangerously aggressive stallion and its troubled owner made for some of the year\u2019s most affecting unscripted drama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/movies\/2011\/12\/buck_cave_of_forgotten_dreams_certified_copy_the_top_10_movies_of_2011_.html\">Link to complete article &gt; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Stevens, December 14, 2011 &#8220;Buck. Forget War Horse: Cindy Meehl\u2019s modest documentary was 2011\u2019s one-stop shop for equine uplift. Meehl follows the itinerant life of Buck Brannaman, the horse-training consultant who was the inspiration for the novel and movie The Horse Whisperer. Brannaman survived a childhood of early loss and horrific abuse to grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}