As you know by now, I'm pretty intrigued by the subject of Montana movies ... either films about the state, or ones that were shot here. There's quite a list in both of those categories, and I'm a long ways from having seen most of them.
I was thinking about this partly because a friend recently pointed me to a grassroots poll being conducted by fans of the Montana Committee for the Humanities -- a Montana Movie Tournament. There are 32 films on the voting list, a fairly motley cross-section of movies. Some were actually filmed in the state, others only set here. The list includes documentaries, small independent films, and the usual big-budget classics that are sure to dominate the vote. Overall, I thought it was a little disappointing.
Nonetheless, they've constricted the beginning to a Montana movie list -- it's got some of my favorites, some that I've really been meaning to see (or see again), and even a couple of recent documentaries that I can't wait to watch. (Sweetgrass and Prodigal Sons are both in the latter category.) So the list is worth a look.
I think I'll devote the next few posts to a few of the more offbeat Montana movies on the list ... and then maybe I'll construct a list of my own someday.
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8 hours ago
Amazed at how many of the films from the list I've seen...a few can't be got from Netflix, but I've added those that are available.
ReplyDeleteCan't say that I agree with the leader-board.
Yeah, I've disagreed with a number of the votes so far, too ... and though I wouldn't have voted for it, I'm surprised that A River Runs Through It didn't make it to the finals. (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance wasn't filmed in Montana, and I don't think even mentions the state, so I would have disqualified it from the start.)
ReplyDeleteMy favorites on that list are mostly the oddball independent films, the ones that a lot of people probably haven't even heard of ... so I definitely wasn't expecting my choices to get very far!