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	Forget the Alamo: reading the ethics of style in John Sayles's 'Lone Star.'.(Style in Cinema) - Style - HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sayles further complicates the intersections of race and class, for by placing a military base in Frontera, he establishes the historical precedence of protectionism that permeates much of the thinking in Frontera and in America in general.
		Sayles employs summary as a means for informing the audience about their romantic past and the sudden, dramatic demise of their relationship at the hands of Buddy.
		Sayles skillfully shifts from his summary of the past into a present-day scene depicting Sam alone at the abandoned drive-in theater, sitting on the hood of his squad car and stating at the broken-down movie screen.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:55082384&refid=holomed_1 (5639 words)

	THE FILMS OF JOHN SAYLES
		Nashville for a fictional Jersey metropolis coloured by John Sayles' working-class and race concerns, City of Hope is a devilishly complicated picture structured around a restless camera and the smooth passage of dialogue from one storyline to the next.
		John Sayles has related that the inspiration for his film Matewan was time spent in the early seventies hitch-hiking through West Virginia's coal country, collecting stories of the Coal War told by those kind enough to offer him a ride.
		John Sayles' Men with Guns is a tremendous film, a Wizard of Oz construct in the same way as Apocalypse Now is a Wizard of Oz construct: the picture follows one protagonist's journey into the heart of darkness accompanied by projections of his shadow.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/filmsofjohnsayles.htm (2890 words)

	Reel.com: John Sayles and Maggie Renzi
		John Sayles is often referred to as the father of the modern indie cinema.
		Sayles was a short story writer and novelist to begin with and his literary background shows in his attention to character and in the multilayered, epic scope of films like City of Hope and Lone Star.
		Sayles doesn't shy away from the political or the controversial, tackling subjects like lesbianism in Lianna, racism in The Brother from a Another Planet (among others), the bloody history of unions in Matewan, and urban corruption in City of Hope.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/sayles (1925 words)

	Morphizm.com -- An Interview with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi
		The 52-year-old Sayles was born in Schenectady, NY; as a child, he claims, he was a "sub-verbal loner." He graduated with a B.S. in psychology from Williams in 1972, published his first novel, Pride of the Bimbos in 1975, and had his first screenplay, for Joe Dante's Piranha, produced in 1978.
		Sayles has been praised for his independence and his enthusiasm for his work; he is also, unusually, a white filmmaker who deals consistently and repeatedly with race, as well as class, sex, and other issues.
		John Sayles: As I was thinking of the story, and this iconic stuff that was going on, and the anger and disappointment in that kid, I wanted him to destroy something.
	www.morphizm.com /recommends/sunshinesayles.html (1218 words)

	Borders and Boundaries: An Interview with John Sayles.
		John Sayles describes his new film, Lone Star, as "a story about borders." It is set in Texas, which Sayles explains "is unique among the United States in that it was once its own country.
		Sayles: My feeling, basically, is that I've made a lot of movies about American culture and, as far as I'm concerned, it is not revisionism to include Mexican-American culture or African-American Culture or any of the many other different groups.
		Sayles: It is kind of an obvious conclusion because there's not even the separation of a dissolve, which is a soft cut.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/sayles.html (3410 words)

	Professor John Sayles
		Sayles was born in Ithaca, New York in 1825.
		Sayles joined R.E.B. Baylor and Royal T. Wheeler as one of the initial faculty members of the new law school at Baylor University.
		Sayles is listed as a faculty member at Baylor until 1883, when the school ceased to offer law classes on a regular basis.
	law.baylor.edu /history/Faculty/sayles.htm (230 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| John Sayles
		Sayles is coming to San Jose on Saturday (Feb. 14) to give his new film its Northern California preview and to accept the second John Steinbeck Award presented by the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University (the first recipient was Sayles' fellow Jerseyman Bruce Springsteen).
		Sayles, in a phone interview, says that he has studied Steinbeck not only as a reader and a writer but as an actor: "I was in two different productions of Of Mice and Men, and I played Lenny in one and Candy in the other.
		Sayles based the film on a paragraph from The Long Night of the White Chickens, a novel by Francisco Goldman, who told the story of an uncle who was a doctor in Guatamala.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.12.98/sayles-9806.html (901 words)

	WORLD TRAVELER: Film Freak Central Interviews John Sayles & Maggie Renzi
		Sayles' continuing interest in the plight of the blue-collar worker is another possible offshoot of his early experience; his affection for characters who work at gas stations and/or offer people lifts (favourite collaborator David Strathairn is twice introduced in Sayles' oeuvre as a Samaritan chauffer) is yet another.
		Sayles, dressed in a pale blue unbuttoned workshirt, sleeves pushed up, at a muscular 6'4"--the most important voice in American Independent cinema--looked ready for a hard day's work and, in its way, the press junket is probably as gruelling as digging fence posts.
		Sayles speaks with his hands, his favourite gesture the gradual circling of thumb and forefinger in a pinching circle to augment the idea of precision; Renzi is more reserved in her expression, if no less precise.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /notes/johnsaylesinterview.htm (3582 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - John Sayles
		One of America's preeminent and best-respected independent filmmakers, John Sayles has established a reputation for refusing to abandon his values in favor of becoming a studio filmmaker.
		Sayles' interest in storytelling began at an early age: before the age of nine, he was an avid novel reader.
		Sayles' negative experiences while making the film caused him to vow that he would never again trade the rights to a final cut for funding; fortunately, he didn't have to.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Biography.asp?ctr=646099 (1179 words)

	INTERVIEW: The Return of John Sayles; From "Secaucus" to the "Sunshine State"
		John Sayles looks like he's running for president on the patriotic red, white, and blue poster for IFC Films' retrospective of the director's work, which is currently touring the nation (with stops this week in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Philadelphia).
		Sayles: I get an idea about who they are and where they're coming from and then I outline what the plot may be.
		Sayles: Our movies are political in that they deal with how people affect each other, and how governments affect people and how people affect governments, but they are not ideological.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Sayles_John_020618.html (1521 words)

	John Sayles
		Born in Schenectady, New York, John Sayles had no interest in academia in high school, preferring to immerse himself in sports such as baseball and football.
		Sayles, who had returned to stage acting in between novels, took a small role in the film.
		Sayles not only continues to direct and write screenplays, but also works as an actor when he has the time.
	www.tribute.ca /DIRECTORS/BIOS/2517.htm (469 words)

	CNN.com - John Sayles against the world - Sep 24, 2004
		John Sayles directs "Silver City," a film that's as much about interlocking relationships as it is political satire.
		Sayles says he was inspired to do the film while working on his previous movie, "Sunshine State," in Florida after the 2000 election.
		Sayles himself is disappointed in the rise of fluffy entertainment news and the he-said, she-said screamfests that have come to dominate the news media.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/24/sayles.silver (920 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| John Sayles
		Sayles' latest, the follow-up to his 1996 hit, Lone Star, is Men With Guns, a drama about Latin American politics.
		Sayles' scriptwriting has always been adroit, but now the photography and soundtracks are really worth talking about as well.
		Filming in Spanish was important to Sayles, because he wanted to show the difference between upper-echelon city dwellers and the native people in the countryside.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/04.01.98/john-sayles-9813.html (891 words)

	Austin Chronicle: Screens: On the Set With John Sayles
		She and John had been putting the final touches on Men With Guns (Hombres Armados) and had spent a relatively lazy summer at their house in upstate New York.
		We had a lot of parties, from the little dinner parties that we had by the dozens to the bigger parties to welcome the cast, the crew, the birthdays, etc. Dinner, when you are anywhere near Maggie and John, is always a group experience, and everyone is invited as long as they pitch in.
		John returned before us, and as it was already about eight o'clock he was busy in the kitchen making fish with a Veracruz sauce.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue41/screens.sayles.html (1349 words)

	The History of Cinema. John Sayles: biography, reviews, links
		Sayles' camera drifts in and out of events and conversations, picking up a character when he left the previous one.
		Sayles' city of hope is a city of hopelessness, but a quiet brand of hopelessness.
		Sayles keeps a calm and determined pace, with none of the angry fervor of populist cinema.
	www.scaruffi.com /director/sayles.html (5761 words)

	John Sayles @ Filmbug
		Sayles had written both of these years before he was able to film them but the projects were considered commercially risky and he had difficulty raising the funds to make them.
		Sayles' urban epic City of Hope was shot in five weeks in 40 locations and included 48 speaking roles.
		Sayles scaled down his dramatic canvas for his next picture, the intimate Passion Fish, about the healing relationship between a nurse and her patient set in Louisiana.
	www.filmbug.com /db/35139 (608 words)

	Articles - John Sayles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950 in Schenectady, New York) is a fiercely independent American film director and writer who frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films.
		In 1983, after Sayles's film ''Baby It's You'' (starring Rosanna Arquette) and ''Lianna,'' a sympathetic story in which a married woman becomes discontented with her marriage after falling in love with another woman, Sayles received a MacArthur Fellowship for $40,000 a year for a five-year term.
		Sayles used the money to fund ''The Brother from Another Planet,'' a film about a fl, three-toed slave who escapes from another planet and finds himself at home among the people of New York City, largely because he is incapable of speaking.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/John_Sayles (402 words)

	"Casa de los Babys": John Sayles Examines the Balance of Trade for Six American Women in Latin America
		John Sayles in Acapulco on the set of "Casa de los Babys." Photo courtesy of IFC Films.
		Sayles manages to balance the dilemmas of those women with storylines about local residents whose lives are both intimately and tangentially affected by adoption.
		John Sayles: Yeah, it was a very, very long short story and that's a problem getting published because it's too long to be a short story and really a bit too short to be a novel or a novella.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030922sayles.html (1333 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| John Sayles in Corman’s Hollywood
		In 1977, when John Sayles arrived in Hollywood with his script of Eight Men Out, his only point of penetration into the film industry, despite his publications and writing awards, was through the exploitation doorway.
		Wielding comedy as his weapon, Sayles mercilessly attacks the pretensions of New Age authors and vacuous TV producers, adding additional elements of cattle mutilation and body snatching, plus an amusingly grisly motif of smiley-face stickers as signs that the murderer is near.
		Sayles, however, practiced his knack for fitting numerous central characters into one narrative, and even managed a John Ford campfire moment with “Red River Valley” swelling on the soundtrack.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /41/sayles.htm (3191 words)

	Movies and more movies! ShadowCulture's Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies
		Sayles' first film was the counterculture classic "Return of the Secaucus Seven," winner of the 1978 Los Angeles Film Critics award for best screenplay.
		Sayles broadened his audience with the youthful romantic comedy-drama "Baby It's You" and the satirical "Brother from Another Planet," about a fl extra-terrestrial whose ship crash lands in New York City.
		Sayles also wrote a book about the experience, entitled "Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie "Matewan." "Eight Men Out," based on the book by Eliot Asinof which detailed the 1919 baseball World Series scandal, was among Sayles' most popular efforts.
	www.mrcranky.com /interviews/sayles.html (1026 words)

	Limbo . Austin Chronicle . 06-14-99
		John Sayles' new film Limbo is half a great movie -- specifically, the first half.
		It is here that we find Sayles at the top of his game, telling a story about individuals in under-explored pockets of American life who are as much motivated by social and economic dynamics as by personal demons and ambitions.
		Sayles is conducting a narrative experiment in which the movie's very conclusion is its most reckless test by confronting the viewer with an intimate (and many say frustrating) knowledge of the state of limbo.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/l/limbo1.html (466 words)

	John Sayles
		The son of schoolteachers, Sayles was educated at Williams College, Massachusetts, majoring in psychology and graduating in 1972.
		Sayles was instead someone with keen political instincts, and, as he put it, a native talent for 'thinking in pictures'.
		Sayles likes to say that he was catapulted from total obscurity to relative obscurity, a quip borne out by a trajectory that has taken him from the genre grindhouse to niche arthouse respectability.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/sayles.html (3527 words)

	The John Sayles Stock Company: Actors
		Sayles' famously diverse settings for his films have given Daring the opportunity to adopt various musical styles in his compositions, including dabbling in Celtic music in The Secret of Roan Inish, Louisiana Zydeco in Passion Fish, and Tejano music in Lone Star.
		Her brother, John Lynch, is a noted character actor, and the two siblings appeared together in Interview With the Vampire.
		Sayles first met her in 1983, when he was in the midst of an aborted first attempt at casting Matewan.
	www.ericenders.com /saylesactors.htm (6673 words)

	Valley Advocate: John Sayles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John Sayles' latest finds America's leading independent filmmaker at his most bitterly cynical.
		The agony is, like his protagonist, Sayles is acutely aware that he's a lone voice in the wilderness, and that everything he says, no matter how much he's right about the world gone wrong, probably won't make any difference.
		Director-turned-actor (and, yes, son of John Huston -- which can't help coming through in his voice) Danny Huston is surprisingly good as ex-reporter Danny O'Brien, now working for a Colorado investigative agency hired by a corrupt campaign operative (Richard Dreyfuss as a quasi-Karl Rove, and relishing every minute of his unalloyed villainy).
	www.valleyadvocate.com /gbase/Film/content.html?oid=oid:86482 (410 words)

	AlterNet: Sunny Side Up
		This summer, Sayles is shooting in New Mexico for a new project called "Casa de los Babys." In April, Sayles and Renzi received the "Storytellers Award" from the Taos Talking Picture Film Festival.
		John and I have the same accommodations, and eat and work with everyone else.
		Sayles: In addition to the Scottish film, I have an epic that I wrote about the Philippines insurrection that has been waiting around for several years.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13342 (2183 words)

	The John Sayles Stock Company: Home Page
		John Sayles, like every prominent film director, has his own Stock Company – that is, an unofficial collection of actors who frequently appear in films by a certain director.
		Please do not write us asking how to contact John Sayles or any of the actors herein; such inquiries will be ignored.
		The John Sayles Stock Company website does not control the copyright for these photos, so please don't write us asking if you can use them.
	www.ericenders.com /sayles.htm (628 words)

	John Sayles
		first met John Sayles on the ballfield at the Indianapolis Stadium during the filming of Eight Men Out, a giant of a man dressed in tank top and shorts, in defiance of a chilly morning in late October.
		John Sayles with lead Federico Lupi (2nd from right) on location for Men With Guns.
		Because he wanted to capture as much authenticity as possible, Sayles felt that it was important that the language in the film should be the language of the people being portrayed.
	www.dga.org /news/mag_archives/v22-5/john_sayles.htm (3576 words)

	ReelTalk Movie Reviews
		Teamwork has always played an important role in the success of filmmakers John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, the duo responsible for such acclaimed independent movies as Lone Star, Limbo, Matewan, Brother from Another Planet, and The Secret of Roan Inish.
		Sayles and Renzi, winners of the prestigious Storyteller Award at the Taos Talking Picture Festival 2002, also share a motivation to explore different film genres while tackling relevant issues with a high level of integrity.
		No surprise, of course, that Sayles and Renzi work outside the traditional filmmaking establishment to deal honestly with such issues as strikes, unions, social class and prejudice.
	www.reeltalkreviews.com /browse/viewitem.asp?type=feature&id=18 (450 words)

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