John Sayles on Work and Class in Movies
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Some of the most exciting movies being made today are tackling class tensions and the role of work in our lives. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, our cover story last issue, is one major example, with its twisty upstairs-downstairs thriller set-up. But many other films have been taking up the subjects of work and class in a variety of different ways: Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, Stephen Soderbergh’s High Flying Bird, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and Greta Gerwig’s upcoming movie Little Women (the cover of our latest issue).
For our latest Film Comment talk at Film at Lincoln Center, we were delighted to discuss work and class with veteran independent filmmaker John Sayles, whose film about striking miners, Matewan, is now available in the Criterion Collection. Also joining Sayles and FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold was Teo Bugbee, a contributor to Film Comment and The New York Times who also works as an organizer for Writers Guild of America East. Starting off with how Matewan was conceived, we covered a lot of ground, spanning decades at the movies and in American history.
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John Sayles is a treasure and deserves far more acclaim. Glad to see him here and he is thoughtful and perceptive as always
"Baby, It's You" is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Stunning.
Thanks for uploading. As a writer-director from the working class, Sayles is one of my inspirations.
Thank you for your contribution.
Ten whole people got killed?
That's just another Saturday night in Baltimore.
Amazing!
I guess Teo Bugbee didn't see Return of the Secaucus Seven. (She mentions Salt of The Earth. referred to in Return, which she either doesn't remember or doesn't seem to know.).
Eh - probably typical of so many people who, if it something did not happen 'today' - it never happened. (Hey - how come you and I don't get paid for making that kind of important observation?).
PI-- ON SAYLES !
Jeez, Rapold; learn how to pronounce the name of the movie in advance.
Right?
So so so cringey.
'Sunshine State' - a far more important and humanistic film than MATEwan.
Someone explain the arrogance of Lincoln Center and Film Comment talk at Film at Lincoln Center not providing a table and fixed mics, or similar 'simple' comforts for the participants. It sure wasn't due to a 'union" problem.
John Sayles said he recently visited the U.S. southern border wall and "urinated on it" he needs to be arrested and charged for destruction of government property!
Cite source on that.
Someone needed to quieten the person on the left.
Typical word salad
@@autofocus4556 Well, that's not "word salad." That is being sanctioned in your arrogance by getting paid for it.