Comments on: Sheep Show: Sweetgrass

By: TCM's Classic Movie Blog

TCM's Classic Movie Blog — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:02:30 +0000

[...] was led to three of these hybrid films: Sweetgrass (which I discussed here), The Anchorage, and Agrarian Utopia, by Robert Koehler in his Cinema Scope essay, “Agrarian [...]

By: R. Emmet Sweeney

R. Emmet Sweeney — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:29:28 +0000

I can see the SILENT LIGHT connection, Jeff, as they both document dying traditions and cultures. Both use long takes quite a bit, too.

It’s great to hear you’ll be booking it, Keelsetter. I hope it has a decent theatrical run ahead of it…

By: keelsetter

keelsetter — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:13:30 +0000

I just read about this in The New Yorker and look forward to bringing it to my next calendar program. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash used to work here at the Film Studies Program here in Boulder before herding themselves off to the greener pastures of Harvard. It’s nice to see their work making the rounds. Thanks for the review!

By: morlockjeff

morlockjeff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:22:06 +0000

I look forward to seeing this and think it might be less affected and weird than Carlos Reygadas’s nonetheless mesmerizing SILENT LIGHT (2007)…which is not to say it’s a documentary or about sheep but I think there is a connection.

By: suzidoll

suzidoll — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:15:41 +0000

Forgot to add: I will definitely look for this film. I hope it plays Chicago. Thanks for this nicely written piece.

By: suzidoll

suzidoll — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:12:45 +0000

I did not know the link between Rohmer and Wood, with Rohmer publishing Wood’s first article. Now, they are linked again because their deaths occurred so close together.