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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.
Dec 18, 2023 · In October, Maggie Renzi and John Sayles were in Belfast to publicize Sayles’s new novel and historical epic, Big Jamie McGillivray (2023), and for the Belfast Film Festival, where there was a retrospective of their work and they were awarded the Réalta award for Outstanding Contribution to Film.
Sayles' areas of focus were photography, filmmaking, and television. Directed a trio of music videos for songs from Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. album. Longtime personal and professional partner of producer Maggie Renzi. Find bio, credits and filmography information for John Sayles on AllMovie - One of America's preeminent and best ...
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 ...
John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American movie director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay , for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996).
Jan 10, 2024 · Like many significant directors of his generation, John Sayles cut his teeth working for Roger Corman, for whom he wrote one of his two high-quality Jaws knock-offs, 1978’s Piranha (1980’s Alligator is the other), while nursing his own ambitions as an independent filmmaker.
May 10, 2024 · John Sayles sits down with IndieWire to discuss his 1991 inner-city drama ‘City of Hope’, as well as the hope for cinema’s preservation. John Sayles sits down with IndieWire to discuss his ...
