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Dec 18, 2023 · Cinema of Bread and Roses: An Interview with Maggie Renzi and John Sayles. Near the end of Matewan (1987), socialist union organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a guiding light and galvanizing force for a West Virginia town of striking coal miners under siege, attempts to console frustrated young Danny Radnor (Will Oldham), a nascent preacher ...
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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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.
Oct 29, 2019 · By 1987, Sayles had made four films, one of which, The Brother from Another Planet (1984), had been started, finished, and released during the lengthy process of trying to produce Matewan. Used to working on low-budget, independent films, Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi eventually raised nearly $4 million to make Matewan.
Maggie Renzi (born November 30, 1951) is an American film producer and actress. ... Matewan: Yes Yes Rosaria 1988 Eight Men Out: Yes Rose Cicotte 1991 City of Hope:
Dec 26, 2017 · Producer Maggie Renzi speaks at the 30th anniversary screening of “Matewan.” Sayles wrote the script for “Matewan,” he said, after hitchhiking through Kentucky and West Virginia as a young man in the late 1960s and early 1970s and hearing about the hidden history that was the Mine Wars.
Maggie Renzi (born November 30, 1951) is an American film producer and actress. ... Matewan. The Secret of Roan Inish. The Brother from Another Planet. Silver City.
