Better You Be a Team Player

By Tobias Peterson

Sports, as emphasized in films such as Eight Men Out and The Untouchables, are a helpful way of organizing and enforcing our daily behaviors. [5 August 2008]

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The Pride of the Yankees: Collector’s Edition

By Bruce Dancis

In time for baseball season comes a trio of worthy releases: Bull Durham, Eight Men Out and The Pride of the Yankees [28 March 2008]

Honeydripper

By Cynthia Fuchs

John Sayles' Honeydripper is less a conventional film than a bluesy collaboration -- slow-moving and contemplative, wily and laced through with cultural nuances. [1 February 2008]

Silver City (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Dickie Pilager embodies U.S. political-corporate mythology, the 'shining city on a hill' reduced to basic elements. [2 February 2005]

Silver City (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

It's easy to make assumptions about a political candidate named Dickie Pilager. [17 September 2004]

Casa de los Babys (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [3 May 2004]

Sunshine State (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

If there's anyone you'd want to have talking you through his movie, it would be John Sayles. [10 December 2002]

Sunshine State (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Its attention to intricate sociopolitical tensions, Sunshine State, recalls Sayles' previous work. [18 July 2002]

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. [1 January 1995]

Indie icon John Sayles doesn’t hesitate to go mainstream if it helps his pet causes [22 February 2008]

‘Honeydripper’ a blues project for John Sayles [7 February 2008]