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cinematheque
sweetgrass
For countless generations, Western ranchers have ranged their animals on public lands. An extraordinarily beautiful, critically-acclaimed documentary, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture.
Produced by Ilisa Barbash Recorded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2009, 101 minutes "A really intimate, beautifully shot examination of the connection between man and beast..." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times "A one-of-a-kind experience. At once epic-scale and earthbound, Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's startling documentary plays like a mad cross between Howard Hawks' 'Red River' and 'Grass,' Merian Cooper's paean to vanishing nomadic traditions (with a dash of Tex Avery's 'Drag-along Droopy')" - Ronnie Scheib, Variety "Monumental. An anthropological work of art." - Robert Koehler, Cinema Scope "This is gorgeous ethnography that successfully makes a relatively simple subject interesting for those of us who are completely foreign to its setting." - Howard Feinstein, Filmmaker Magazine Purchase the DVD with Performance Rights here. |
