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Jan 16, 2024 · John Sayles has been a fixture of American independent cinema for nearly 50 years. Like many indie filmmakers, Sayles began his career making monster movies before directing his microbudget debut ...
Jan 21, 2024 · “John Sayles does not make bad films,” writes Sam in their four-star review of Silver City. The Letterboxd data holds that to be true: Across eighteen feature films, the average rating for Sayles’s filmography is a mighty impressive 3.6 out of five, in a career spanning back to 1980’s Return of the Secaucus Seven .
Feb 15, 2024 · John Sayles is one of the great American filmmakers. Graduating from Williams college in 1972, Sayles moved to east Boston to work a factory job. During that time he wrote short stories, submitting them to various magazines. These short stories would be compiled into a full novel in 1975 called Pride of the Bimbos.
Sep 28, 2020 · The 1990s was truly Sayles’ decade, beginning with the outstanding City of Hope (1991). Fans of The Wire will be in thrall to the breadth of focus of a single-city film, which was inspired by Altman’s Nashville (1975). With more than 50 principal characters, tangentially connected via a cat’s cradle of interconnected relationships, City ...
Jan 16, 2024 · Jan 16, 202410:00 AM. John Sayles and Matthew McConaughey on the set of Lone Star. Criterion. In his long career as an independent writer-director, John Sayles has never had a success like 1996 ...
May 24, 2017 · Story is a guiding principle for writer-director John Sayles. For nearly forty years, he’s made films outside the studio system such as Eight Men Out, Honeydripper, and Lone Star, creating emotional pyrotechnics through characters, relationships, and nuance. Yet to him, independent filmmaking is more about a state of mind—and storytelling ...
Jun 6, 1999 · John Sayles: In 'Limbo'. Roger Ebert June 06, 1999. Tweet. CANNES, France-- John Sayles has two movies in release these days, but he takes a credit on only one of them. "Limbo" is his Cannes premiere, going into U.S. release on Friday. It's a story set in Alaska, that starts as a romance and ends as a cliff-hanger.
