FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 20, 2010
"SWEETGRASS"
ON DVD AUGUST 3, 2010
"Magnificent... The first essential movie of this young year...
A graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life."
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
New York, NY - The Cinema Guild is proud to announce the DVD release of "Sweetgrass," the surprise documentary hit of 2010, that's been hailed as "Visually stunning" (Washington Post), "A spectacular and visceral experience" (Seattle Times) and "Intensely beautiful. It could widen your soul" (Boston Globe).
"Sweetgrass" will be available to own August 3, 2010 for $29.95. Prebook is June 29, 2010.
The DVD will include over 50 minutes of deleted scenes, an insightful commentary track by filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash and a fan photo gallery - featuring photos submitted through Facebook.
Synopsis
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, "Sweetgrass" follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Disc Specs
"Sweetgrass" is presented in anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1, mastered from an HD source, with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack as well as English, French, Spanish, Russian and German subtitles. Bonus features, include:
- Mastered from original HD source material
- Audio Commentary by Filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash
- Deleted Scenes
- Fan Photo Gallery
- Theatrical Trailer
- 5.1 Soundtrack
- Booklet featuring essay by Robert Koehler
SWEETGRASS
Price: $29.95
Order Due Date: June 29, 2010
Street Date: August 3, 2010
Catalog Number: CG 000112
UPC: 881164000224 | ISBN: 0-7815-1331-6
Total Run Time: 100 minutes
Rating: NR
Screen Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (16:9)
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