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HISTORICAL FACTS: John sayles - The Untold Story

‘Like if John Sayles directed Forrest Gump’: the incredible life of historian Howard Zinn

The life of the hugely influential ‘people’s historian’ is explored in a wide-ranging new book that brings in everything from wars to civil rights to Matt Damon

The Guardian - US

‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement

John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice

The Guardian - US

Weapons star Amy Madigan cast in John Sayles' bold Western

Amy Madigan has been cast alongside Adaptation star Chris Cooper in I Passed This Way.

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‘I’ve been advised not to say certain things’: The Secret Agent makers on Oscars, dictators and death threats

The actor Wagner Moura and writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho explain how the Brazilian thriller mirrors their experiences of political corruption and why they are compelled to speak out

The Guardian - UK

From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country

In October 2025, Cecil Roberts will officially retire from his role as president of the United Mine Workers of America. A sixth-generation coal miner, he has led the union for 30 years. Only one man held the role longer: John L. Lewis, whom many consider one of the most important…

The Conversation

James Cameron's Forgotten First Sci-Fi Movie Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Before 'Avatar,' before 'Aliens,' and before even 'Piranha II,' the legendary director cut his teeth on a forgotten B-movie.

Inverse

Whisky growl, granite jaw and unflappable charisma: Kris Kristofferson was perfect as a lover or a fighter

The actor was the real deal, whether as a cherubic psychopath in Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or playing second fiddle to Barbra Streisand in the smash hit A Star Is Born

The Guardian - UK

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40 Years Ago, a Cult Classic Sci-Fi Movie Beat John Carpenter to the Punch

Months before Carpenter's 'Starman' hit theaters, a low-budget indie put its own clever twist on the story of an alien trapped on Earth.

Inverse

Lone Star review – John Sayles’s powerful crime drama is an extraordinary relic of 90s film-making

Sayles’s 1996 film tackles racial division in Texas as a sheriff uncovers dark secrets about his home town and his father’s past

The Guardian - UK

Tony Lo Bianco obituary

American actor who fitted naturally into the 70s trend for gritty crime thrillers as a brute with a twinkle in his eye

The Guardian - UK

‘I recently went back to the Texas border – and urinated on the wall’: how we made Lone Star

‘The film was 20 years ahead of its time. Look at what we’re dealing with now – border conflict is a nightmare’

The Guardian - UK

Oscar-nominated screenwriter's new book is set in the aftermath of Culloden

AN Oscar-nominated screenwriter has turned one of his old screenplays set in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden into a new book.

The National (Scotland)

Dingle Distillery International Film Festival comes to close with €5,000 prize winner announced

The festival featured talks from leading crew members of Normal People and eminent director John Sayles

Irish Mirror

Mable John obituary

First female singer signed to Motown whose later hit for Stax, Your Good Thing, became a classic of deep soul

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Notes on “E.T.,” now we're in our 40s

In a never-ending homage economy, the lack of a sequel doesn't necessarily mean a story can be at rest

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