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John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He is known for writing and directing the films The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Passion Fish (1992), The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Lone Star (1996), and Men with Guns (1997).
John Sayles. Writer: Lone Star. A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job.
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John Sayles. Writer: Lone Star. A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job. He wrote stories and submitted them to various magazines, and the Atlantic Monthly gave him the idea of publishing them in a novel--thus "Pride of the Bimbos ...
- September 28, 1950
Jan 15, 2024 · With the incongruous mix of satirical ferocity and disarming geniality mastered by authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Tom Robbins, Sayles’ challenged the tribalism and machismo that animate this country’s sports culture. From the beginning, he had his finger, gently, on the pulse of our societal demons. Advertisement.
John Sayles (born September 28, 1950, Schenectady, New York, U.S.) is an American motion-picture director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor who since the 1980s has been among the most prominent independent filmmakers in the United States. Parlaying his fees as a screenwriter of mainstream Hollywood films into funding for his own ambitious ...
Jan 16, 2024 · John Sayles has been a fixture of American independent cinema for nearly 50 years. Like many indie filmmakers, Sayles began his career making monster movies before directing his microbudget debut ...
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Jan 16, 2024 · John Sayles Looks Back on the Making of ‘Lone Star’. As the neo-Western joins the Criterion Collection, its writer/director explains how he maximized his resources to create an American ...