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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. Sayles’s early movies look prescient two decades into the twenty-first century.
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.
Drawing on his own background as a union-man, director John Sayles joined forces with producing partner Maggie Renzi to research a 1920 coal miners’ strike and bring it to the screen. Sneak Peeks — Oct 28, 2019
Matewan. Matewan ( / ˈmeɪtwɒn /) is a 1987 American independent [2] [3] drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in supporting roles. [4] The film dramatizes the events of the Battle of ...
