I'm interested in the stuff I do being seen as widely as possible but I'm not interested enough to lie.
- John Sayles.
In the recent issue of the Sweden-based international film theory magazine filmint. on "Cinema & Realism" the work of John Sayles is explored in an article and review. Sayles is perhaps best known for his 1996 feature Lone Star, a film that unpacks nationhood, racism, social inclusion, familial bonds, and community, all with an Oedipus lens. This prolific American writer and director has been making films at a steady rate since the 1980s, and has seldom wavered from his commitment to using cinema narratives to reveal social struggles around reoccurring themes such as labour, violence, gender and race. The quiet tension captured in films like Matewan (1987), Men with Guns (1997) and Lone Star (1996) combine with Sayles's visionary sense of aesthetic as well as his seemingly endless stream of writing talent, to bring audiences the kind of films that big studios don't make and won't make.
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Posted by Ezra Winton on February 22, 2007 in
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