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The Secret of Roan Inish (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 1205
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:As one of the most respected American independent filmmakers, John Sayles has created a body of work as distinguished in its diversity as for its consistent quality and inspiring originality. He's never been one to march to the commercial beat, but chooses instead to follow his creative impulse wherever it leads him. The Secret of Roan lnish led Sayles to the beautiful and moody West Coast of lreland; it is a tale of a girl who discovers that her family has been touched by myth and magic throughout the ...
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Passion Fish (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 3842
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:An intelligent and potent drama about taking life's second chances when they come, Passion Fish finds director John Sayles (Matewan, Lone Star) once again providing a strong cast of actors with a smart, literate screenplay to produce an entertaining and thought-provoking film. Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves, Grand Canyon) plays a soap-opera actress paralyzed in a car accident, who returns to the small town on the Louisiana bayou where she grew up to hide. But the hiring of a physical therapist with a tortured past (Alfre Woodard), and ...
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Lone Star (Widescreen)
»rank: 4522
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Writer-director John Sayles's finest film to date is a sprawling, multilayered exploration of American boundaries--cultural, racial, sexual, temporal--set in a tiny Texas town on (naturally) the border of Mexico. Comparable in scope and detail to such wonderful movies as Nashville, Boogie Nights, or Sayles's own City of Hope, Lone Star plays like a fertile novel, weaving its numerous characters in and out of its large canvas and repays numerous repeated viewings. Sayles centres this tapestry with a murder mystery and touching romance, both containing origins rooted in the past. ...
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Eight Men Out (Widescreen)
»rank: 10681
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Eliot Asinof's detailed book Eight Men 0ut illustrates how the system of American sports collapsed in 1919, the year the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. Filmmaker John Sayles worked on his script years before the 1988 film (or before he had the rights to make the film) as a labor of love. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of artistic license. And what a story. Although many know about the 'Black Sox,' made famous--again--in the 1989 hit film ...
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The Brother From Another Planet
»rank: 19705
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Having been stymied in the midst of trying to make Matewan, John Sayles wrote what he thought could be a cheap, quick little movie and it turned out to be this near classic, which blends fish-out-of-water comedy with trenchant and serious science fiction. Joe Morton plays an extraterrestrial whose spaceship crashes in New York Harbor. When he swims ashore, he finds that most of Harlem is filled with earthlings who look just like him. He can't speak, but he quickly learns to communicate; he also finds ways to ...
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Silver City
»rank: 19705
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Having been stymied in the midst of trying to make Matewan, John Sayles wrote what he thought could be a cheap, quick little movie and it turned out to be this near classic, which blends fish-out-of-water comedy with trenchant and serious science fiction. Joe Morton plays an extraterrestrial whose spaceship crashes in New York Harbor. When he swims ashore, he finds that most of Harlem is filled with earthlings who look just like him. He can't speak, but he quickly learns to communicate; he also finds ways to ...
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Limbo (Widescreen)
»rank: 25537
Chroniques et points de vue:From :There are three unforgettable characters in John Sayles's contemporary adventure-drama set in Alaska. They are never seen but live only in a frontier diary found by teenager Noelle De Angelo (Vanessa Martinez). The life of the diary's narrator is much like everything in this movie: hanging in limbo. The first half of the film focuses on why men and woman turn to Alaska, a land still ripe with opportunity. A small town is at a crossroads, with its pulp mill and canning factory closed and new investors seeing different ...
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Eight Men Out
»rank: 25537
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Eliot Asinof's detailed book Eight Men 0ut illustrates how the system of American sports collapsed in 1919, the year the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. Filmmaker John Sayles worked on his script years before the 1988 film (or before he had the rights to make the film) as a labor of love. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of artistic license. And what a story. Although many know about the 'Black Sox,' made famous--again--in the 1989 hit film ...
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Casa de los Babys
»rank: 25537
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Eliot Asinof's detailed book Eight Men 0ut illustrates how the system of American sports collapsed in 1919, the year the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. Filmmaker John Sayles worked on his script years before the 1988 film (or before he had the rights to make the film) as a labor of love. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of artistic license. And what a story. Although many know about the 'Black Sox,' made famous--again--in the 1989 hit film ...
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Baby It's You!
»rank: 25537
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Eliot Asinof's detailed book Eight Men 0ut illustrates how the system of American sports collapsed in 1919, the year the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. Filmmaker John Sayles worked on his script years before the 1988 film (or before he had the rights to make the film) as a labor of love. Sayles's adaptation proves one can make a historically accurate film in the day and age of artistic license. And what a story. Although many know about the 'Black Sox,' made famous--again--in the 1989 hit film ...
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