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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 ...
Feb 15, 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. In the late 1970s, following ...
John Sayles. Highest Rated: 100% Passion Fish (1992) Lowest Rated: 10% The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) Birthday: Sep 28, 1950. Birthplace: Schenectady, New York, USA. After making his start as an ...
Feb 28, 2023 · John Sayles, though, is the real deal. This is a first-rate historical novel told with wit, verve and a subtle understanding of the mechanics of the genre. Alex Preston is the author of four ...
Jan 18, 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 ...
Sep 28, 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 ...
Jan 21, 2024 · “John Sayles does not make bad films,” writes Sam in their four-star review of Silver City.The Letterboxd data holds that to be true: Across eighteen feature films, the average rating for Sayles’s filmography is a mighty impressive 3.6 out of five, in a career spanning back to 1980’s Return of the Secaucus Seven.
