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Dec 18, 2023 · Cinema of Bread and Roses: An Interview with Maggie Renzi and John Sayles - Filmmaker Magazine. Matewan. by Ruairí McCann. in Directors, Interviews, Producers, Screenwriters. on Dec 18, 2023.
Oct 29, 2019 · Used to working on low-budget, independent films, Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi eventually raised nearly $4 million to make Matewan. They filmed in Thurmond, West Virginia, over a seven-week period in autumn 1986.
Oct 15, 1987 · October 15, 1987. NEW YORK -- It was hard to find an empty seat at the premiere of "Matewan." A new written-and-directed-by John Sayles movie creates its own kind of buzz. What Sayles'...
Oct 28, 2019 · And Sayles’s longtime producing partner, Maggie Renzi, traces the origins of Matewan all the way back to the extensive research on coal mining that the writer-director had done for his 1977 novel Union Dues, which he had published before embarking on his career behind the camera.
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).
The director of MATEWAN and his longtime producing partner talk about the research process that led to this wrenching account of a coal miners’ strike. John Sayles and Maggie Renzi on MATEWAN on Vimeo
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