Capone's Art-House Round-Up with A SINGLE SHOT, SALINGER, WADJDA, GOOD OL' FREDA, THANKS FOR SHARING, MONEY FOR NOTHING, CUTIE AND THE BOXER and SOLE SURVIVOR
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Hey, folks. Capone in Chicago here, with a whole lot of films that are making their way into art houses or coming out in limited release around America this week (maybe even taking up one whole screen at a multiplex near you). Do your part to support these films, or at least the good ones… A SINGLE SHOT There's a small but proud tradition of taking what feels like a film noir storyline (often reserved for city living) and placing it in nature, such as the woods, mountains or deserts. Sam Raimi did it with A SIMPLE PLAN and the Coen Brothers did it with BLOOD SIMPLE and John Dahl did it with RED ROCK WEST, to name a few. You could even throw the more recent Winter's Bone on the pile. And now you can include the little bit of perfection known as A SINGLE SHOT into the mix, a film that's with seeing if only because it's one of the best Sam Rockwell has ever given, as bearded hunter John Moon, a man whose life was already a piece of shit before he accidentally killed a woman while he was poaching deer in the mountains where he lives. Directed by David M. Rosenthal (JANIE JONES) and based on the mid-'90s novel by Matthew F. Jones (who also wrote the adaptation), A SINGLE SHOT is awash with majestic and moody settings and a host of redneck characters—some of them colorful, believe it or not—to play out this
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