The director spent two and a half years shooting it. Then she carefully crafted it into an hour and a half journey of one man's life. Brannaman is a world famous horse trainer, who travels nine months ...

Buck Brannaman, the subject of Cindy Meehl’s engaging documentary profile “Buck,” has a warm presence and knows how to tame horses better than anyone else. That’s the simplest encapsulation of the ...

The real-life horse whisperer who inspired the 1998 fictional movie “The Horse Whisperer” starring Robert Redford is now the star of his own documentary that follows the life of the cowboy-philosopher ...

It’s too soon to call this year’s Oscar for documentary, but here is a prime candidate: “Buck,” a character study featuring a real character. This film, which bowed locally at the Seattle ...

ASPEN – Often, those who are attracted in an extreme way to animals are those who have a difficult time with human company. Exhibit one is the Crazy Cat Lady type, the shut-in who, upon her death, is ...

You might think of Robert Redford as the Horse Whisperer. But Buck Brannaman is the real thing. In the documentary “Buck,” which premiered at Redford’s Sundance film festival, the inspiration behind ...

The Nugget: A talented trainer channels the pain from his past into a gentle approach to horsemanship. Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer may have faded from collective memory, but Buck Brannaman ...

One has to witness the work horse trainer Buck Brannaman does with his animals to appreciate it as an art form. In the documentary Buck, filmmaker Cindy Meehl paints a portrait of Brannaman, who is ...

First-time filmmaker Cindy Meehl makes an Oscar-shortlisted doc on Buck Brannaman, who inspired Robert Redford's equine classic. By Tim Appelo Cindy Meehl‘s Buck, a Cedar Creek Productions documentary ...

Dan "Buck" Brannaman is the subject of the documentary Buck. My guess is Buck doesn’t use the moniker Dan much. He’s just "Buck." Buck is one of my favorite films this year and after urging Carmike ...