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Humble Sayles removes his credit from films -
25 August 2011
-Cult moviemaker/writer John Sayles has revealed he often asks for his credit to be removed from films when he doesn't feel he deserves recognition for the final script.-The Eight Men Out writer/director admits he is often called on as a "screenwriter for hire" - and
John Sayles - what members say
review by A customer from London
People in transit 7 July 2004
review by A customer from Inglewood
Slow starting but ends well 24 May 2005
review by A customer from London, England
Great acting, reallistic and often difficult subject matter 11 August 2004
John Sayles - filmography
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Great Directors
(2009)
Starring: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani
Director: Angela Ismailos
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GREAT DIRECTORS, directed by Angela Ismailos, features original, in-depth conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles.
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Honeydripper
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta
Director: John Sayles
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It's 1950, and it's a make or break weekend for Tyrone Purvis, the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to bring back the crowds that used to come to his place. He decides to lay off his long-time blues singer Bertha Mae and announces that he's hired a famous ..read more »
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Silver City
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth
Director: John Sayles
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During a gubernatorial race in small-town Colorado, a mystery is uncovered involving a dead body found in a local lake. A private detective, Danny (Danny Huston), is hired by the governor-to-be's campaign manager (Richard Dreyfuss), who is worried that the unexpected event may be used as a scandal-..read more »
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Sunshine State
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Timothy Hutton
Director: John Sayles
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SUNSHINE STATE, directed and written by John Sayles, takes a close-up and occasionally comic look at the fading community of Delrona Beach, Florida. A dozen local personalities are introduced, each with their own unique challenges. The town's dilapidated houses, its stale Buccaneer Days Festival, ..read more »
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Girlfight
(2000)
Starring: Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon
Director: Karyn Kusama
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Girlfight is the fresh, triumphant story of a young woman in the Bronx who discovers her greatest love in the boxing ring.
When she falls for macho featherweight Adrian, her heart is put to the test. An action-packed, stunning debut from first-time director Karyn Kusama, starring award-winning ..read more »
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Limbo
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez
Director: John Sayles
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Set in Alaska, where the rugged lifestyle of fishermen and cannery workers is gradually giving way to tourism and museums, LIMBO features a colorful cast of characters--a fisherman who has lost his boat, lesbians who own a profitable Alaskan lodge, bar patrons reflecting on the transformation of ..read more »
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Men With Guns
(1997)
Starring: Federico Lupi, Katheryn Grody
Director: John Sayles
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High in the mountains of an unnamed Latin American country, an Indian woman tells her daughter the story of a doctor. We meet him and follow his quest for his legacy. He nears retirement, idealistic, believing his finest accomplishment to be the training of seven young physicians who work with ..read more »
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Passion Fish
(1992)
Starring: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Lenore Banks
Director: John Sayles
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A soap-opera star who, paralysed after a car accident, sinks into a routine of drinking and watching TV all day at the Louisiana house where she grew up. Chantelle, the hired nurse, takes her on a journey of self-exploration and renewal.
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Matinee
(1992)
Starring: David Clennon, Robert Picardo, John Sayles
Director: Joe Dante
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It's 1962 and 15-year-old horror film fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) is the new kid in a small Key West town; the Cuban Missile Crisis is happening in his own backyard; an intriguing girl (Lisa Jakub) is actually looking his way, and best of all, master showman Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is in ..read more »
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from 406 members
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Eight Men Out
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, Christopher Lloyd
Director: John Sayles
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Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal ..read more »
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Matewan
(1987)
Starring: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
Director: John Sayles
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The year is 1920, the setting Matewan, West Virginia, where the town's coal miners labor under miserable, unhealthy conditions. Enter Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a rebellious union leader who wants to organize the West Virginian miners, as well as the Italians and blacks brought in as workers. ..read more »
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Something Wild
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta
Director: Jonathan Demme
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Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels star in this quirky road movie from director Jonathan Demme (MARRIED TO THE MOB, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). Charlie Driggs (Daniels) is a timid New York investment broker who lets himself be abducted during his lunch hour by an attractive nut named Lulu (Griffith). ..read more »
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Brother From Another Planet
(1984)
Starring: Jane Halleran, Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards
Director: John Sayles
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In this offbeat fantasy tale, Sayles takes a look through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial (Joe Morton) who crash-lands on Earth - in Harlem - and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his journey through the streets of Urban America. But can his ..read more »
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Lianna
(1983)
Starring: Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries
Director: John Sayles
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In this moving and compassionate film, Sayles presents a sympathetic, realistic portrait of Lianna, a young wife and mother who leaves her husband for another woman and embarks on a turbulent journey of self-discovery. Lianna must face the anger and confusion of her husband as well as the raised ..read more »
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Return of the Secaucus Seven
(1980)
Starring: Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre
Director: John Sayles
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In this his directoria debut, John Sayles looks at seven friends who reunite ten years after their radical college days for a dramatic, poignant and revelatory weekend. Return of the Secaucus 7 inspired the later hit film The Big Chill and heralded the arrival of a brilliant new force in ..read more »
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John Sayles Collection
(3 discs)
Starring: Jane Halleran, Darryl Edwards, David Strathairn
Director: John Sayles
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This boxset brings together three early films from John Sayles, one of the foremost American Independent directors working today. Never before available in the UK, these films are characterised by their nuanced observations, humanity and irrepressible sense of independence, forming the foundations ..read more »
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John Sayles facts
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...From writer/director John Sayles, you always expect something with a bit more substance than the typical Hollywood movie. He choses to make subtle, slow-burning films abo...
