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Barbash and Castaing-Taylor, husband-and-wife filmmakers and visual anthropologists who spent three summers in Montana documenting the last drives, pay tribute to this disappearing culture ofthe American West without ever romanticizing it Prone to dozing off, creased-faced John, a tiny cloisonné sheep pin affixed to the front of his cowboy hat, wonders, "How can a dog like me when people don't?" After his cuss binge, high-strung Pat, perched atop a peak like a character in a classic oater, pulls out his cell phone and cries to his mama, "My knee's all screwed up! I need a day off," irrevocably puncturing the mythos of the cowboy. (Barbash, who produced and co-edited, stayed in town with their children.) "I'd rather enjoy these mountains than hate 'em," Pat blubbers to Mom during that infamous phone calL Sweetgrass reminds us of the smpefying magnificence of its setting- beautiful for spacious skies and mountain majesties- while never letting us forget its formidable perils: grizzly bears and gray wolves, for starters, predators that leave bloody sheep carcasses in the night.
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Silence of the Lambs
Silence of the Lambs
Up the mountain one last time with Sweetgrass. Anthropomorphized sheep need not apply.SweetgrassDirected by Lucien Castaing-TaylorCinema GuildJanuary 6 through 19, Film ForumThough the breatht...See the full content of this document
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