Winter's Bone movie

I haven't seen it. In fact, I hadn't even heard of it until this thread, but you piqued my interest. I just looked it up, and it sounds interesting. I've saved it in my Netflix queue, so I'll definitely be checking it out when it's released on disc.

Didn't get a chance to go see it when it was playing at SIFF, but it won the best director and best actress Golden Space Needles.

Srsly?

i really want to see it. am a huge Daniel Woodrell fan and I think that is by far his best book.

Yep.

Would like to resurrect this thread and encourage all of you to check this film out. I was so impressed that I went bqack to re-read the novel and would be curious to see if anyone else who checks out both the book and the film would agree with any of my initial reactions.
1. The best parts of the film were pretty much directly taken from the book (including especially memorable lines of dialogue)
2. In adapting the book to do the screenplay for the film, the results seem (to me) to be mixed. Some plot elements from the book (e.g., the sapphic relationship between Ree and Gail, the 'stoned on mushrooms rape' flashback, the whole 'fists of god' religious cult element) are ok being cut since they might have a tendency to clutter up the narrative thread. On the other hand, elements related to Ree's mother's past (including the fact that one of the young children was actually fathered by one of the kinfolk living nearby when Jessup was in jail) seem to have been dropped to the detriment of a fully- fleshed-out understanding of the characters.
3. Some elements that were included in the film but do not appear in the book strike me as being especially weak and contribute little (e.g. the whole artsy black and white squirrel in a forest montage when Ree is considering having to sell the timberland, and the painfully awkward interaction with the Army recruiter which makes Ree come across as far less savvy and competent than the whole film has led us to believe.)

All in all, though, well worth checking out.

I hate my town.

It's sad this film didn't get a wider release. Like The Road last year, it's an excellent adaptation of excellent source material. I don't really understand the decision not to promote it and put it in more theaters. There is an audience for this thing...

Why does Roger Ebert still not have a review of this?

I think Ebert has one foot in the grave, dude^^

Actually, I'm pretty sure that I saw an Ebert review for the film the last time I was over on the Drudge Report site.

Yeah, I just saw it's on his site, but he reviewed it two months ago.

This is coming to my town in two weeks, I will be watching.