Directed by Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films list.
The disconnect between image and sound is very interesting. Without commentary, this astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. Alberto Pugno, a fisherman in the Italian Alps, is. On paper, this sounds like a huge bore, and to many I expect it still will be, yet somehow following….

Please enable it to continue. Barbash and Castaing-Taylor must've realized they hit the jackpot with the sheep staring in the camera moment and thus used it as a Great Train Robbery opening so people who would otherwise dismiss the work have to pay attention. Sweetgrass presents a riveting and poetic portrait of the American West just as one of its traditional ways of life dies out. The workers of the north American fishing industry are a new soulless brand of cowboy, with no romanticized mythos to frame their work. When I was young we had a small herd of sheep, once one of the mothers died shortly after giving birth and we adopted the lamb taking caring of her. A spellbinding, occasionally beautiful and sometimes even unsettling series of pastoral images presented as unsentimentally as possible by documentarian and ethnographer Lucien Castaing-Taylor. This isn't about pot but I was high as a kite when I watched it. More details at Really loved watching them put pajamas on the newborn lamb but then it turned out to be skin, Watched as a double feature with Leviathan, and I can't imagine watching one film without the other. Shows the rigors of this disappearing way of life. View Sweetgrass by Lucien Castaing-Taylor photos, movie images, film stills and cast and crew photos on Fandango. It doesn't include the…, The complete starting list for TSPDT's ranking of the 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films. © Letterboxd Limited. TMDb This astonishingly beautiful reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. the extended wide shot of the man screaming "move, cocksuckers" at hundreds of unmoving sheep atop a desolate mountain - i felt that.

We are mostly kept an arm’s distance from the ranchers and how they ended up in this profession. Yearning to watch 'Sweetgrass' on your TV or mobile device at home? Almost every shot is a time image. Leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of the month, I'd just watched Leviathan for the same reason, and Nick Bruno convinced me this one was Lucien Castaing-Taylor's "most accessible" film so I made sure to get it in under the wire.

I do see what that "most accessible" argument means, although if you're not familiar with the work of the "Sensory Ethnography Lab", do not go in thinking this actually means this film is "accessible" in a traditional sense. baa baa baaaa baa baaa baa baaaaaaaa baaa baa baa baa baa baaaa baa ba ba baaa baa baa baa baa baa baaaaa baaaaaa baa baa baa baa baabaa baa baaaa baaaaa baaa baaaa baaaaa ba ba ba baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baaaa baa baa baaaa baa baaa baa baaaaaaaa baaa baa baa baa baa baaaa baa ba ba baaa baa baa baa baa baa baaaaa baaaaaa baa baa baa baa baabaa baa baaaa baaaaa baaa baaaa baaaaa ba ba ba baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baaa baaaaa ba baa baa baa baa baa baa baaaaaaa baaaaa baaa baa baaaaaa baaaaa baaaaa baaaaaaaaa ba baa baa baa baa baa baa baaaa baa…, everyone be quiet, i'm romanticizing manipulated bonding between bereaved ewes and orphaned lambs, Cowboy: *grumblesOther cowboy: “What’s that?”Cowboy: *grumbles againOther cowboy: “Mmhmm”. Mobile site. An immersive documentary that captures that terrifying vastness missing in most narrative Wild West films. My primary job was to sit in the backseat of a car as we drove between locations, pull out gear and get it working when we landed, and then carry it through the fields until the director of photography needed it. This astonishingly beautiful reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. People use mymovierack for rating, reviewing and keeping track of watchlist.

If ya wanna really know what the tedium of sheepherding or commercial fishing is like, have I got a filmmaker for you.

I already used my "not baaaad" review on Shaun the Sheep, so I'll just say that Sweetgrass was mesmerizing. Sheep are awful to look after and my folks thankfully have goats now instead. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges - a journey brimming … The two movies feel like mirror images of each other; their contrasts and contradictions emboldening and enlightening the focus of both films. The tearful, frustrated phone call by one of the cowboys was particularly poignant and heart wrenching. Here at SGP we aren’t your typical team sports f Shot amidst the grandeur of Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness,… Probably the least serene nature documentary I've ever seen. Mesmerising footage of wool being sheared, a worn out old cowboy dozing under a tree with his hat on his face, vast misty plains filled beyond the field of view with grazing sheep are just a few of the indelible images captured in a way that is rigorously pragmatic…, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, one half of the directorial duo behind last year's exquisite quasi-doc Leviathan, takes us on a journey eight years in the making; across mountains and creeks, enduring many days and many nights, experiencing both the loving and loathing of nature alongside a group of sheep herders in Montana. In a John Wayne Western, you know there’s a trailer offscreen, let alone roads and civilization just miles away. For me, this was a really mesmerizing multispecies ethnographic film. The cowboys in Sweetgrass do the thankless work of ranging their herds of sheep through Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains, and are presented as the leftovers from another time. The beautiful Montana scenery probably helped quite a bit.

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This astonishingly beautiful reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. 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. Just glad cinema never…. It is directed by Ilisa Barbash. Love this movie? The cinematography and sound were spot on. Some interesting stuff, some beautiful images, a few things to think about when it was over, but a challenge to sit through. A lot of their clients were agriculture-related, and for one series of videos we traveled to a handful of farms across the U.S.: I visited peanut farms in south Georgia, Oklahoma, and Virginia, and worked on a tractor ad in rural Oregon. Here at SGP we aren’t your typical team sports f

Sweetgrass tells the story of some of the last modern day American shepherds as they traverse miles of Montana wilderness towards summer pasture—it's a fascinating journey through old world simplicity, with moments of elation but mostly what seems like immense hardship in a clearly backbreaking field of work.

And, unlike in Leviathan, the human is at the center. The 2015 edition of the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? I don't know if anything will beat Leviathan, since that is one of my favorite docs of all time, but you could see the beginnings of something great with Sweetgrass. This website embed videos which are legally & For other episodes, we provide direct IMDb Jayce Fryman 18,693 films 2,877 99 Edit, This list collects every film from the Starting List that became They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 1000 Greatest Films.

underneath and in between lovely stretches of pastoral quiet and unvarnished (sometimes kind of icky) nuts-and-bolts procedure there is something vaguely psychically menacing about this film, as if it is secretly documenting an untapped and potentially dangerous power. When Google Earth has sex with optimism, some frea. Recommended! Watched this one with my dog.

When she’d grown enough my parents had her butchered and she found a new home in our freezer. Overall, this is a solid film. 101 mins   It's aggressively long takes of what in other films would basically feel like nothing. Alberto Pugno, a fisherman in the Italian Alps, is. An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last sheepherders to trail their flocks up into Montana's Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. I don’t want to write down my thoughts I wish I could post a video of me talking about this on Letterboxd but this is not allowed so I will just say OK good!

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