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(0)John Sayles
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1897, gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. This is the story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of our greatest storytellers of all time...'A Moment in the Sun' takes the whole era in its sights--from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements.
3) Yellow Earth
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Yellow Earth, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the Tribal Business Council. "An activist in his way, a product of the Casino Era," Killdeer, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company.
When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks...
4) Honeydripper
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When the Honeydripper lounge is about to close due to heavy debt, owner Tyrone rests all his hopes on a one-night performance by Guitar Sam.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen) are two of the talented young players on the pennant-winning 1919 Chicago White Sox team owned by the stingy Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. When gamblers discover that Comiskey’s demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, Buck, Hap and the team are offered bribes to throw the World Series and a national scandal erupts,...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Young Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
7) Passion Fish
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own. Nominated for two **Academy Awards** for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Mary McDonnell, and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Six American women hoping to adopt babies must live in Mexico while their paperwork is being processed. Explores the viewpoints of the adopters, the teenage mothers putting their babies up for adoption, and the locals observing the Americans.
10) Algren
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The documentary ALGREN is a journey through the gritty world, brilliant mind, and noble heart of Nelson Algren. Exploding onto the national scene in 1950 after winning the first-ever National Book Award for 'The Man with the Golden Arm,' Algren defined post-war American urban fiction with his gritty, brilliant depiction of working class Chicago. Hemingway declared him second only to Faulkner; Vonnegut dubbed him a literary groundbreaker. Hollywood...
12) Passion fish
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
After an auto accident leaves her paralyzed, ex-soap opera star May-Alice Culhane returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana where she proceeds to drive away a succession of nurses-- until Chantelle. May-Alice and Chantelle form an unlikely friendship, and explore the bayou, as well as the murkier aspects of men, romance, and family.
14) Matewan
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan's miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company's violent...
15) Silver City
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny...
16) 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...
17) Lone star
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Everyone worships the late great legendary sheriff of a Texas border town, except his son who is the current sheriff solving a murder he suspects can be traced back to Dad.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Seven mercenaries are recruited from throughout the galaxy to save a peaceful planet from the threat of an evil tyrant bent on dominating the entire universe. Among them are a lizard-like humanoid, a space cowboy, a female warrior, and a brooding killer-for-hire.