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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...
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Jan 16, 2024 · Director John Sayles, whose neo-Western masterpiece Lone Star arrives on Criterion 4K this week, reveals how the film would be different if he made it today
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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.
Feb 27, 2024 · John Sayles, writer and director. We decided to make a film about the Texas border after going there in 1978 to shoot a cameo in the Joe Dante film Piranha, which I wrote.
John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist.
Feb 26, 2024 · 'Lone Star' director John Sayles says he took a recent trip to the U.S./Mexico border and urinated on the wall.
Jan 11, 2024 · John Sayles’s 1996 masterpiece, “Lone Star,” a film about race, class, dark secrets, and how legends are made, is receiving a new restoration courtesy of the Criterion Collection.