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John Sayles: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
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John Sayles: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) Paperback - 1999

by Diane Carson (Editor)

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Part of the "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, these interviews span Sayles's 20-year career as a writer, director, and sometimes actor. Photos. Filmography.

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  • Title John Sayles: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781578061389
  • ISBN 9781578061389 / 1578061385
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.98 x 0.91 in (22.86 x 15.19 x 2.31 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture producers and directors -, Sayles, John - Interviews
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99-17283
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Nominated for both an Academy Award for scriptwriting and a National Book Award, John Sayles has written screenplays, teleplays, short stories, and novels and has worked as a script doctor for a virtual who's who of Hollywood film and television talent. He has acted in films and on stage and even directed a music video for Bruce Springsteen.

In making movies, Sayles has handled subjects as diverse as seventies activists in The Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980); a 1920s Appalachian miners' strike in Matewan (1987); the 1919 Black Sox scandal in Eight Men Out (1988); the Selkies of Ireland in The Secret of Roan Inish (1994); and Latin American guerilla warfare in Men with Guns (1997).

Conducted over a period of twenty years, these interviews span Sayles's career as a writer, director, and sometimes actor. Whether he is interviewed in The Progressive, Film Comment, Sight and Sound, or Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, Sayles is always direct and candid. In each conversation, he cuts to the core of the film business and to the meat of what he is trying to accomplish as an artist.

Known for his fiercely independent vision, his authentic characters, and his provocative observations on the human condition, Sayles demonstrates in these interviews what an endurably original director and artist he is. As he tells Sight and Sound, "First of all, I'm not afraid of failure. I don't get upset if people don't like it. I'm doing it because I'm interested. . . [Return of the Secaucus Seven] was the start, because even if I hadn't got it released, at least I've made a movie I wanted to make."

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LOW - COST INDEPENDENT MOVIEMAKING is such a terrific idea - maybe the industry's only hope of re-establishing connections, a segment at a time, with an increasingly fragmented audience - that the tendency, in practice, to view independent production, not as a strategy, but as a Cause in its own right, is a dreary spectacle indeed.

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 07/01/1999, Page 54

About the author

Diane Carson is professor of film studies at St. Louis Community College at Meramec and adjunct professor of film at Webster University, both in St. Louis, Missouri. A film critic for Riverfront Times and KDHX in St. Louis, she is also editor of Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism.

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