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John Sayles’s Native American genocide tale To Save the Man is essential and cinematic reading
John Sayles has long been one of America’s great independent filmmakers (Matewan in 1987 and 1996’s Lone Star are modern classics). But in the beginning were the words. Sayles started out in the ...
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John Sayles: ‘For the last 25 years it’s been hard for me to get screenwriting work, much less actually get a movie made’
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.