Ruckus September 23, 2022

Following the rhythm of John

BY RACHEL HERGETT FOR THE CHRONICLE

An accordion plays as the camera moves through a snow-covered ranch along the West Boulder River outside of McLeod. A lone cow. Old cars and old tractors buried in drifts.

An old man emerges from a cluttered single-story home, carrying a box banana box and brushing past a cat that purrs at his ankles. He’s headed to chop wood.

“John: The Last Cowboy” takes its time getting to know its subject, John Hoiland, now 95 and still living on the ranch where he was raised. At 91, Hoiland said he hoped to make it nine more years, to live to an even hundred.

“So far,” Hoiland says in the film, “I might say I’m pretty lucky to get this far. I’ve outlived my dad and my mother and my sister and I’m still out here, you know, taking in the scenery and seeing what’s happening next.”

Norwegian director Frode Fimland met Hoiland in October 2016. Fimland had joined a Norwegian folk orchestra touring five states from Minnesota to Washington in hopes of meeting more Norwegian-American film subjects.

“You never know,” Fimland said on a FaceTime video call from his home in Bergen, Norway’s second largest city by population. “There are a lot of stories around.”

Fimland’s first documentary “Siblings are Forever,” about a brother and sister who have lived their whole lives on the family farm in remote Norway, had prompted a sequel. In the second film, the siblings visit American relatives. The plan was to find another story based around the Norwegian immigrant experience, to explore why so many people left the country, what sort of lives they found and what the future holds.

Images provided by Frode Fimland

ABOVE: John Hoiland’s ranch, shown in a still from “John: The Last Cowboy,” is less than an hour’s drive from Yellowstone National Park. LEFT: Hoiland and Jim Larkin in a still from the film. Hoiland and Larkin have been best friends for as long as they can remember.

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The Bozeman Doc Series and the Sons of Norway Fjelldal Lodge of Bozeman present the Montana premiere of “John: The Last Cowboy,” from director Frode Fimland, on Monday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. at the Emerson Center. The film will be preceded by a performance by The Ringling 5 and followed by a Q&A with Fimland and John Hoiland, the Montana rancher who is the subject of the film. Tickets are available at the door or online at www. bozemandocseries.org.

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tasty tv

BY GEORGE DICKIE

“Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted” (Available on Disney+ and Prime Video): The British celebrity chef and restaurateur shows his wild side in this National Geographic series as he ventures to some of the most remote locations on Earth in places like New Zealand, Peru, Tasmania and Morocco, to dive, forage, fish and even jump out of helicopters for extraordinary ingredients, from which he will create meals certain to impress the locals.

At a time when grocery prices are going through the roof, foraging for one’s own ingredients seems like a good idea. And as it turns out, a tasty one as well, judging by a culinary competition series coming to Hulu.

In “Chefs vs. Wild,” an eight-episode series premiering Monday, Sept. 26, two world class chefs are dropped in the wilderness, where they’ll be tasked with not only surviving but also foraging enough wild ingredients to create a restaurant-worthy, five star meal. After a head-to-head competition in a wilderness kitchen, the final products are then judged by wild foods expert Valerie Segrest and chef and adventurer Kiran Jethwa, who is also the host.

Of course, the foraging-for-food subgenre of foodie TV has been expanding over the past decade or so and the following is just a fraction of what is available.

“Wild Harvest” (Available on YouTube): “Survivorman” Les Stroud and chef Paul Rogalski are your guides for this series that originally aired on PBS stations, in which they explore the culinary potential of wild ingredients in locations across Canada and the United States. Among their stops: the Oregon coast for mussels and wild radish; the Canadian Rockies for horsetail and dandelion; Alberta for grouse and Labrador tea; and Ontario for lambsquarters and raspberries.

“Original Fare” (Available on PBS online and YouTube): From PBS Food comes this foodie/adventure series that follows host Kelly Cox as she hunts, forages and farms her way around the globe to search for the best ingredients our planet has to offer. Her travels take her to places such as Bodega Bay Calif., to hunt for gaper clams; Texas Hill Country to check out the wine;

South Carolina to gather oysters; and Puget Sound, Wash., to catch crabs for crab rangoon.

“WildFed” (Available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Play): Hosted by Daniel Vitalis, this podcast aims to deepen listeners’ connection with the natural world through hunting, fishing, foraging and understanding that wild food is all around us if we just pay attention.

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A Western for Clint Eastwood to ‘Hang’ his hat on

A pretty brutal Clint Eastwood Western, 1968’s “Hang ‘Em High” – which Turner Classic Movies shows Tuesday, Sept. 27 – telegraphs that it will have surprises right from the opening scene, in which Eastwood’s ex-lawman character is left for dead by a lynch mob in an impromptu hanging. It shouldn’t be much of a spoiler to report that it doesn’t succeed, since no filmmaker was going to kill off Eastwood in the first five minutes of a movie starring him.

A judge (Pat Hingle) cautions the near-victim not to become a vigilante himself, but being made a marshal again lets him cross paths with his assailants and pursue personal justice. Plenty of other familiar faces appear here, including Ed Begley, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and just about anyone else who wasn’t working on a John Wayne picture that month.

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“The Devil Wears Prada” (Freeform, Tuesday, Sept. 27): For a textbook example of how to do a lot with a little, witness Meryl Streep’s purposely minimal emoting in this top-notch 2006 comedy as an imperious fashion magazine editor. Anne Hathaway plays her newest assistant, whose initial failure to be fashion-forward gives her a definite outsider’s view; Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt are great as other members of the Streep character’s inner circle.

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“Scarface” (AMC, Thursday, Sept. 29): Admittedly, he takes the performance way over the top – quite famously – but Al Pacino delves into the part of mobster Tony Montana at full and profane force. Director Brian De Palma and writer Oliver Stone’s major 1983 update of a 1930s gangster classic has a violence level toned down for basiccable showings; it also boasts a terrific supporting cast that includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia and F. Murray Abraham.

Clint Eastwood in “Hang ‘Em High”

“Norway was a very poor country.

Over the period of a hundred years over a third of the population went to the U.S.,” Fimland said. “In a way, that was the story of my family also.”

Fimland’s grandfather left Norway for the United States in 1923, leaving behind his family, including Fimland’s then 1-year-old mother. He told them he would work for a year or two and then come back, but he never did. He died in the Seattle area.

“I was thinking about making a film about our Norwegian heritage,” Fimland said.

Then he met Hoiland, who joined the folk orchestra on stage, toting an accordion.

“Suddenly there is a story and you have to tell it,” Fimland said.

Hoiland’s father was born in Egersund, Norway, in 1894, but had an adventurous spirit. As Hoiland tells it, “there wasn’t much of anything to do in Norway.” But his father’s love of dancing and playing accordion secured his passage to America. Hoiland was born in Big Timber in May 1927, and has lived his entire life on the ranch, raising cattle and the hay to feed them.

Aside from Jim Larkin’s ranch on the “other side of the mountain,” Livingston photographer Robert Osborn says Hoiland is “the last cowboy up there.”

Most of the nearby ranches have been sold off to make way for multimillion-dollar houses, Hoiland says. Some may still look like the ranches they once were, but no one works them.

“They’re just what you would call ‘ornamental,’” Hoiland says.

“John: The Last Cowboy” was filmed over 2 ½ years, with Fimland making seven trips to Montana. Also behind the cameras was Bozemanbased filmmaker and Bozeman Doc Series founder Jason Burlage, who was able to visit Hoiland on short notice as events came up, provide drone footage and bring a second viewpoint as Hoiland went about his life.

“From the start, I was sure I would need someone to collaborate

Hoiland does not speak Norwegian, but he can extract several 20th century Norwegian songs from his father’s old accordion, seen here in a still from “John: The Last Cowboy.”

in Montana,” Fimland said. “I’m so lucky that I found Jason.”

Fimland set out to make a film based on the Norwegian connection; Hoiland doesn’t speak a word of Norwegian. Yet his yes is often a Norwegian “ja,” Finland said. And he retains his heritage in the music he plays.

“And also the lefse,” Fimland said.

Hoiland’s story unfolds in “John: The Last Cowboy” within simple moments, each more interesting than the last. He lingers over a photo of a much younger Hoiland holding an accordion with a young Patricia Arquette hanging from his arm, talking about how he should have taken her out to the Roadkill Cafe. He discusses life and death at his family plot, next to the graves of his parents. He stops to watch a golden eagle in flight. He makes lefse, Norwegian potato pancakes and says

his mother would be proud. He starts one of the 30 or more vehicles, none built in the last 50 years, and they roar to life.

“The only reason I get up in the morning is to see just what the hell could take place,” friend Jim Larkin says as he and Hoiland talk over coffee.

Rock music blares as his quiet life meets the modern world at a rodeo in Wilsall. And there’s the Chevy commercial, where a young Hoiland watches over a flock of sheep as a pickup flies overhead.

But then Hoiland goes back home, where the ranch, and the film falls back into the stillness Fimland wanted to capture.

“You have to trust in the pictures and hopefully the audience will relax and follow in the rhythm of John,” Fimland said.

Image provided by Frode Fimland

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Betts leads the Dodger attack into October

Questions: Answers: BY GEORGE DICKIE

1) In what year did the New York Giants play their first game?

2) The team’s first owner, Tim Mara, had a livelihood that was legal then, but today is not. Can you name it?

3) When did the Giants win their first championship?

4) At what age did Wellington Mara assume ownership of the Giants?

5) What two-time Super Bowl-winning coach played defensive back for six years for the Giants?

6) What Giant finished his career second all-time in sacks?

7) What college stadium did the Giants call their temporary home in 1973 and 1974?

8) When the Giants traded quarterback Fran Tarkenton back to the Minnesota Vikings in 1972, whom did they acquire?

9) The Giants won two championships under Bill Parcells. Which Super Bowl opponents did they defeat?

10) Who is the Giants’ all-time leading rusher?

10)TikiBarber,with 10,449yards(1997-2006)

9)TheDenverBroncos (1987)andtheBuffaloBills (1991)

8)QuarterbackNorm Snead,widereceiver BobGrim,runningVince Clementsandtwodraft choices

7)TheYaleBowlinNew Haven,Conn.

6)LawrenceTaylor

5)TomLandry

3)1927 Hewas14whenhe tookoverwithhisbrother Jackin1930

2)Bookmaker

1)1925

In the conversation regarding NL MVP candidates, it’s difficult to ignore Mookie Betts.

Indeed, as arguably the best player on the team with baseball’s best record, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ right fielder and leadoff hitter is in the midst of another banner year in a career that is seemingly filled with them.

As of the end of August, the six-time All-Star had already tied his career high in home runs with 32 to go along with 101 runs, a .281 batting average, a .352 onbase percentage and a .917 OPS. Add in his sterling defense and the five-time Gold Glover is a legitimate candidate for baseball’s most prestigious individual honor along with the Cardinals’ Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado, the Braves’ Austin Riley, the Padres’ Manny Machado and Dodgers teammate Freddie Freeman.

Betts previously won the MVP Award in the American League as a member of the Boston Red Sox in 2018, when he batted .346 with 32 homers, 129 runs, a .438 onbase percentage and an eye-popping OPS of 1.078. His performance that year made him the only player in MLB history to win the MVP, Silver Slugger and Gold Glove awards, plus the AL batting title and World Series in the same season. It’s a standard of excellence that fans have come to expect from the 29-year-old slugger.

Betts and the Dodgers can be seen in action Sunday, Sept. 25, when they close out a three-game series against the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium in a game streaming on ESPN+.

FULL NAME: Markus Lynn “Mookie” Betts

BIRTH DATE: Oct. 7, 1992

BIRTHPLACE: Nashville, Tenn.

TEAMS: Boston Red Sox (2014-19); Los Angeles Dodgers (2020-present)

POSITION: Right field

BATS/THROWS: Right/ right NO.: 50 HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: AllStar (2016–19, 2021, 2022); AL MVP (2018); AL batting champion (2018); Silver Slugger Award (2016, 2018–20);

Gold Glove Award (2016–2020); World Series champion (2018, 2020)

DID YOU KNOW: Betts is a member of the Professional Bowlers Association who once rolled a perfect game in the World Series of Bowling in 2017