{"id":544,"date":"2011-12-28T15:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T20:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2012-01-02T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T15:03:43","slug":"film-feature-the-10-best-overlooked-films-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Film Feature: The 10 Best Overlooked Films of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buck_poster2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-192\" title=\"Buck Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buck_poster2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Submitted by <a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodchicago.com\/users\/mattmovieman\">mattmovieman<\/a> | December 28, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Hollywoodchicago.com<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a striking early moment in Cindy Meehl\u2019s documentary where horse trainer Buck Brannaman slows the speed of his walking to demonstrate how he might move as an old man. His horse observes this change and adjusts its movement accordingly by following its owner at a slower speed. It becomes quickly apparent that Brannaman has somehow created a silent language with horses that allows him to calm and navigate their minds. As one of the nation\u2019s most respected practitioners of the \u201cnatural horsemanship\u201d method, Brannaman spends the majority of his time on the road, holding clinics at various locations throughout the continent where he\u2019s gradually built a base of avid participants. Meehl\u2019s film becomes an extension of Brannaman just as his horses become an extension of him. It\u2019s a stripped-down and straightforward portrait with a great deal of depth and wisdom that applies to life beyond the stable. The structure he imposes on the horses is mirrored by the structure provided by his own rigid schedule, which may function as a form of protection. Brannaman\u2019s need for order in his life seems to have sprung directly from his troubled upbringing. At a time when America\u2019s divisive culture is anchored by shouting matches with the power to drown out all common sense, I suspect every person could benefit from emulating Brannaman\u2019s serene, no-nonsense approach to dealing with conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodchicago.com\/news\/16911\/film-feature-the-10-best-overlooked-films-of-2011\">Read complete article for other picks &gt; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by mattmovieman | December 28, 2011 Hollywoodchicago.com There\u2019s a striking early moment in Cindy Meehl\u2019s documentary where horse trainer Buck Brannaman slows the speed of his walking to demonstrate how he might move as an old man. His horse observes this change and adjusts its movement accordingly by following its owner at a slower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-news","category-reviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}