Articles tagged "john sayles"

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Blues is soundtrack to race relations tale in ‘Honeydripper’

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Jun.08] :. John Sayles’ 2007 “Honeydripper” has everything a serious filmgoer searches for in an independent film. It features a gifted ensemble cast, including Danny Glover, Charles...

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Indie icon John Sayles doesn’t hesitate to go mainstream if it helps his pet causes

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[22.Feb.08] :. An acclaimed and prolific independent film director ("Matewan," “Lone Star"), novelist ("Los Gusanos,” “Union Dues"), and script doctor ("Apollo 13"), John Sayles has his name on...

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‘Honeydripper’ a blues project for John Sayles

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[7.Feb.08] :. John Sayles’ latest film, “Honeydripper” - his 16th, if you’re keeping track - is set in 1950 Alabama, in a little town emblematic of the big changes happening all around. On...

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Film Review

Honeydripper

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Feb.08] :. John Sayles' Honeydripper is less a conventional film than a bluesy collaboration -- slow-moving and contemplative, wily and laced through with cultural nuances.

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Film DVD Review

Silver City (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.05] :. Dickie Pilager embodies U.S. political-corporate mythology, the 'shining city on a hill' reduced to basic elements.

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Film Review

Silver City (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Sep.04] :. It's easy to make assumptions about a political candidate named Dickie Pilager.

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Casa de los Babys (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.May.04] :. The movie, which focuses on a group of U.S. women arrived in an unidentified Latin American country to adopt children, is as much about cultural imperialism and racism as it is about women and babies.

 

Sunshine State (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Dec.02] :. If there's anyone you'd want to have talking you through his movie, it would be John Sayles.

 

Sunshine State (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.02] :. Its attention to intricate sociopolitical tensions, Sunshine State, recalls Sayles' previous work.

 

Limbo (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Polar bears. Carved totem poles. Eskimo dolls on souvenir shop shelves. Salmon getting their heads chopped off on an assembly line. These are the images that welcome you to 'America's Last Frontier,' or more precisely, to the Juneau, Alaska of John Sayles's latest film, Limbo. As this opening sequence suggests, the frontier is less wild than it once was; nowadays, it's exploited and compromised, shaped and reshaped daily by routine and thoughtless violence.

 

Edge of Outside

by Cynthia Fuchs

As much as the lines between 'independent' and 'mainstream' movies seem impossibly blurred, the impulse to mark their difference appears irresistible.

 
 
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