John Sayles
1) Yellow Earth
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit.
When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and
2) Lone star
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
14) Girlfight
Series
The Criterion collection volume 1219
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn, a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter. In Karyn Kusama's raw, understated feature debut, Rodriguez commands the screen with both tightly coiled intensity and deep wells of vulnerability as a young woman hitting back at society's...
15) Baby it's you
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set it 1966 New Jersey, middle-class high school senior Jill finds herself inexplicably drawn to suave, blue collar bad boy known as 'The Sheik'.
Series
Criterion collection volume 334
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union.
17) Great directors
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary Great directors. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles open up about their extraordinary careers with unexpected candor and humor. Ismailos gets them to talk about their artistic evolution from their debut...
18) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
20) Piranha
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
While searching for missing teenagers. novice skip tracer Maggie McKeown and local town boozer Paul Grogan stumble upon a top-secret Army laboratory conducting genetic research on piranha fish for the purpose of developing biological warfare. When the deadly eating machines are accidentally released from the compound, they're soon headed downstream and consuming everything, and anything, in their path. Just when you thought it was safe to go in the...