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Sweetgrass [videorecording] / produced by Ilisa Barbash.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CG 000112 | Cinema GuildPublication details: [New York] : Cinema Guild, 2010.Description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0781513316
  • 9780781513319
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Editing, Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor ; recorded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
With John Ahern, Elaine Allestad, Lawrence Allestad, Pat Connolly.Summary: "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 film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed"--Container.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Filmmakers Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor continue their work capturing the stark beauty and danger of the Western landscape with this documentary. With only a soundtrack as narration, Sweetgrass tracks shepherds through Montana as they take their flocks on the long trek to the Beartooth Mountains. ~ Kimber Myers, Rovi

Originally produced in 2009.

Special features: audio commentary by filmmakers Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor; additional scenes; fan photo gallery; theatrical trailer; essay by film critic Robert Koehler.

Editing, Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor ; recorded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

With John Ahern, Elaine Allestad, Lawrence Allestad, Pat Connolly.

Filmed 2001-2003, in Sweetgrass County, Stillwater County, Wheatland County and Park County, Montana.

"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 film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed"--Container.

Not rated.

DVD; anamorphic widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio, compatible with 4:3) ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround or 2.0 stereo; mastered on HD.

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