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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 ...
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.
The events the film portrays (the Matewan massacre) is based on fact. Miners needed to be organized considering the wretched conditions they lived and worked during the turn of the twentieth century.Matewan was only one of several large horrific incidents which occurred to make this organization possible.
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- 2 hours and 15 minutes
Sonya Polonsky. Music. Mason Daring. Costume designer. Cynthia Flynt. Casting. Barbara Shapiro. Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan’s miners go on ...
- Joe Kenehan
Oct 29, 2019 · DIRECTOR APPROVED BLU RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Sayles, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Audio commentary featuring Sayles and cinematographer Haskell Wexler • New documentary on the making of the film featuring Sayles, producer Maggie Renzi, production designer Nora ...
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* New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Sayles, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray * Audio commentary from 2013 featuring Sayles and cinematographer Haskell Wexler * Two new documentaries on the making of the film featuring Sayles, producer Maggie Renzi, production designer Nora Chavooshian, and actors Chris ...
