Two of his films, The Return of the Secaucus 7 and Matewan, were selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. His films played integral roles in the careers of some of America’s ...

John Sayles has long been one of America’s great independent filmmakers (Matewan in 1987 and 1996’s Lone Star are modern ...

but it is harder than it ever has been to get such a film into cinemas. In the 1980s he and Renzi found ways. Matewan from 1987 told of a famous 1920s coal workers strike in West Virginia.

INTERVIEW: Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly ...

INTERVIEW: Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly ...

It's such a beautiful film, so complex and so lovely and sexy ... In addition to "Claudine," Holland also took home John Sayles' "Matewan," which features Jones in a supporting role.

In 1920, the battle to unionize coal mines in southern West Virginia erupted in a fatal shootout at Matewan. The John Sayles movie "Matewan" (1987) is based on the shootout since known as the Matewan ...

Matewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square. He's declined bribes and payoffs to help protect the coal miners of Matewan but the Baldwin Felts detective ...

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The 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival, which kicked off on January 23rd and concludes today, felt like business as usual in so many ways: Main Street was still crowded, even with it being ...

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