April 02, 2010 — April 08, 2010

Events

Films

Sweetgrass

With Sweetgrass, husband-and-wife filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash tread on tricky ground, chronicling the work of modern-day sheepherders after nearly a decade of homophobic snickering about “gay cowboys” from moviegoers intimidated by Brokeback Mountain.  There’s no conscious aim to “rescue” the image of the sheepherder from such snickering, but it wouldn’t be truthful to say that the specter of politically incorrect amusement doesn’t loom over Sweetgrass. …