Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass, which opened in January at the Film Forum in New York, has gained universal praise as not only one of the finest new documentaries, but, as one critic put it, the “best Western of the last 20 years.” Of course the picture isn’t a Western in the traditional sense, but it is about one of the last sheep drives, a traditional event in the lives of a group of cowboys—a Norwegian family and their hired workers. Rancher Lawrence Allested and his herders move some 3,000 sheep 150