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   John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He is known for writing and directing the films The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Passion Fish (1992), The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Lone Star (1996), and Men with Guns (1997).

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   John Sayles is an American filmmaker who has written, directed and acted in various genres and styles. He is known for his social consciousness, regional cultures and national values in films like Lone Star, Eight Men Out and The Brother from Another Planet.

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Height: 1.93 m

   • Birth Place: Schenectady, New York, USA

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4. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000626John Sayles - Biography - IMDb

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   John Sayles. Writer: Lone Star. A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job. He wrote stories and submitted them to various magazines, and the Atlantic Monthly gave him the idea of publishing them in a novel--thus "Pride of the Bimbos ...

   • Birth Date: September 28, 1950

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   Jan 15, 2024 · With the incongruous mix of satirical ferocity and disarming geniality mastered by authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Tom Robbins, Sayles’ challenged the tribalism and machismo that animate this country’s sports culture. From the beginning, he had his finger, gently, on the pulse of our societal demons. Advertisement.

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   May 1, 2009 · John Sayles (born September 28, 1950, Schenectady, New York, U.S.) is an American motion-picture director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor who since the 1980s has been among the most prominent independent filmmakers in the United States. Parlaying his fees as a screenwriter of mainstream Hollywood films into funding for his own ambitious ...

7. www.avclub.com › john-sayles-lone-star-criterionJohn Sayles on Lone Star and making movies on the border

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   Jan 16, 2024 · Director John Sayles talks about his 1996 neo-Western masterpiece Lone Star, which arrives on Criterion 4K this week. He discusses the film's themes, the border, and the state of TV in 2024.

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   Who is John Sayles?

   • John Sayles. Writer: Lone Star. A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job.

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   What makes John Sayles a good actor?

   • John Sayles ’ films are indicated by the quality of his listening. His scripts are dialogue-dense and populated by people of character and intelligence, representing every social strata, every race, every creed. He puts them in conversation with one another, and then he listens and we listen with him.

   We’re So Short on Time: John Sayles on Lone Star

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   Should you work with John Sayles?

   • Working with John Sayles is not for everybody. There are some people, I think, who may have certain Hollywood-style expectations of comfort and ego-stroking. There are people who expect those sorts of things from when they work on the film.

   John Sayles: A Career Retrospective - Paste Magazine

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   When did John Sayles become a director?

   • His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), as well as Matewan, were added to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1997 and 2023, respectively. Sayles was born on September 28, 1950, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary ( née Rausch), a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator.

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9. www.pastemagazine.com › movies › john-saylesJohn Sayles: A Career Retrospective - Paste Magazine

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   Nov 5, 2013 · An interview with the American independent filmmaker John Sayles, who discusses his early works, his collaborations, and his latest film Go For Sisters. Learn about his influences, his challenges, and his insights into the film industry.