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15 feb 2024 · John Sayles is one of the great American filmmakers. Graduating from Williams college in 1972, Sayles moved to east Boston to work a factory job. During that time he wrote short stories, submitting them to various magazines. These short stories would be compiled into a full novel in 1975 called Pride of the Bimbos.
When John Sayles wrote and directed Matewan in 1987, he was already a hero to those of us following American independent film, both for his witty, energetic genre screenplays (Piranha, The Howling, Battle Beyond the Stars) and for his self-financed directorial efforts (Return of the Secaucus Seven, Lianna, The Brother From Another Planet).
The acclaimed filmmaker looks back on his most celebrated work as it enters the Criterion Collection. Originally released in 1996, Lone Star, the 10th feature film from celebrated American independent filmmaker John Sayles, tells a story set in a small Texas town on the U.S.-Mexico border. The local Sheriff, Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), lives in the shadow of his father, legendary former Sheriff ...
18 gen 2024 · January 18, 2024 @ 1:41 PM. Few filmmakers inhabit the sensibilities of independent film like John Sayles. The legendary writer/director behind “Matewan” and “Eight Men Out” is having ...
Sayles: John Milius made a two- or three-episode TV thing about the Spanish-American War [Rough Riders (1997)]. Filmmaker: I would be curious about his perspective. Sayles: Well, he’s a big Teddy Roosevelt fan, so Teddy Roosevelt is the hero of it. Renzi: And he likes a war.
28 set 2020 · The 1990s was truly Sayles’ decade, beginning with the outstanding City of Hope (1991). Fans of The Wire will be in thrall to the breadth of focus of a single-city film, which was inspired by Altman’s Nashville (1975). With more than 50 principal characters, tangentially connected via a cat’s cradle of interconnected relationships, City ...
John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Sayles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
