Sweetgrass
April 12, 2010 at 2:24 pm 8 comments
Sweetgrass is:
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 yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Heart-breaking. Beautiful. Brilliant.
Updated with this link to an excellent video interview with the filmmakers on WNYC.
Entry filed under: dogs. Tags: film, sheep, working dogs.
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Rob McMillin | April 12, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Have you seen this?
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SmartDogs | April 12, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Only the bits I could find on youtube and elsewhere. I read several interviews with the filmmakers and ooh’d and ahh’d over the stills.
Red Wing is not a great place to catch art films.
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stone soup diaries | April 13, 2010 at 8:37 am
And of course, it won’t be coming to Maryland. Shit.
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Christina | April 13, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Interesting.
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Marge | April 13, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Wow. I hadn’t heard of this film. I hope it shows near me.
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Rob McMillin | April 14, 2010 at 4:18 pm
And of course the only screening in El Lay was at the Nuart in Santa Monica, and it’s come and gone.
The one I keep forgetting to pick up is The Singing Revolution, about Estonia’s non-violent revolution that overthrew that country’s communist government.
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Chas S. Clifton | April 19, 2010 at 8:15 am
“Cowboys” lead sheep? Uh, those must be “sheepherders,” or just “herders” for short.
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SmartDogs | April 19, 2010 at 10:09 am
I thought that was interesting too and I believe that the filmmakers talk about this in the interview I linked. He’s British and she’s a New Yorker – so I think they saw the cowboy vs sheepherder thing as relatively unimportant.