John Sayles

What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little help from Hollywood: Return of the Secaucus Seven, Sayles's first movie as director and writer, was produced with 60,000 of his own money. Many films later, he still works outside the studio system and guides every phase of his productions.Now Sayles has written an illuminating book about the complex choices that lie at the heart of every movie. Using the making of his film Matewan as an example, he offers chapters on screenwriting, directing, editing, sound, and more. Photographs, sketches, and the complete shooting script illustrate this engaging account of how Sayles's curiosity about a coal miners' strike in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, became a screenplay--and then a movie.

It’s 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. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time.Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.

Spanning 13 years, two continents, several wars, and many smoke-filled and bloody battlefields, John Sayles’s thrilling historical and cinematic epic invites comparison with Diana Gabaldon, George R. R. Martin, Phillippa Gregory, and Charles Dickens.It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, the last desperate stand of the Stuart ‘pretender’ to the throne of the Three Kingdoms, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Protestant) British crown, the novel’s eponymous hero, Jamie MacGillivray, narrowly escapes a roadside execution only to be recaptured by the victors and shipped to Marshalsea Prison (central to Charles Dickens’s Hard Times) where he cheats the hangman a second time before being sentenced to transportation and indentured servitude in colonial America "for the term of his natural life." His travels are paralleled by those of Jenny Ferguson, a poor, village girl swept up on false charges by the English and also sent in chains to the New World.The novel follows Jamie and Jenny through servitude, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements -- pawns in a deadly game. The two continue to cross paths with each other and with some of the leading figures of the era- the devious Lord Lovat, future novelist Henry Fielding, the artist William Hogarth, a young and ambitious George Washington, the doomed General James Wolfe, and the Lenape chief feared throughout the Ohio Valley as Shingas the Terrible.

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,” Kildeer, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company.What follows, with characteristic lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit, introduces us to a memorable cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing worlds through masterful storytelling.Set shortly before Standing Rock would become a symbol of historic proportions of the brutal confrontation between native resistance and the forces of big business and law enforcement, the fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.

In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, one of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School . . .In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle school — a military-style boarding school for Indians run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt’s motto, “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” is enforced in the classroom as well as the dorm speak English, forget your own language and customs, learn to be white.While the students navigate survival, they hear rumors of a sweeping tribal lands reservations in the west—the “ghost dance,” whereby desperate Native Americans engaged in frenzied dancing and chanting hoping it will cause the buffalo will return, the Indian dead to rise, and the white people to disappear. Local whites panic, and the government sends in troops to keep the reservations under control. When legendary medicine man Sitting Bull is killed by native police working for the government troops, each Carlisle resident is faced with the Whose side are you on? And what will you risk to gain your freedom?

The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a seventeen year old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries. It's a warm, dry place, and the girls are very available. But Hobie becomes involved in an increasingly vicious struggle for power in the group, and in the mounting violence of their political actions. His father Hunter, who has been involved in a brave and dangerous campaign to unseat a corrupt union president in the coal miners union, leaves West Virginia to hunt for his runaway son. To make ends meet, he takes day-labor jobs in order to survive while searching for him. Living parallel lives, their destinies ultimately movingly collide in this sprawling classic of radicalism across the generations, in the vein of Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, and Richard Price.

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. The Anarchists' Convention is his first short story collection, providing a prism of America through fifteen stories. These everyday people -- a kid on the road heading west, aging political activists, a lonely woman in Boston -- go about their business with humor and resilience, dealing more in possibility than fact. In the widely anthologized and O. Henry Award-winning "I-80 Nebraska," Sayles perfectly renders the image of a pill-popping trucker who has become a legend of the road.

From filmmaker John Sayles (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan), a novel set in contemporary Miami that brings to life the heart and soul of the Cuban community. Filled with passion, violence, sex, and unforgettable characters, 'Los Gusanos' is a rare combination of literary fiction and commercial storytelling with tremendous commercial appeal.

The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball team—The Brooklyn Bimbos—who play in drag at scraggly small towns across the South. The heart of the team—and the novel—is a midget and former private eye named Pogo Burns, who is pursued by Dred, an evil super-pimp whom Pogo had earlier shot in order to rescue a woman he loved. The Pride of the Bimbos is about Pogo's rise, fall and eventual immortality, a man who refuses to admit he's a freak.

John Sayles is a filmmaker of many the writer/director of authentically independent films rooted in good talk, character study and social reflection ( The Return of the Secaucus Seven , Baby, It's You , Brother from Another Planet , Matewan , and Passion Fish ). He has also crafted vibrant, sardonic projects for Roger Corman ( Piranha , Alligator and The Lady in Red ), as well as working as a screenwriter-for-hire ( The Hollowing , Apollo 13 ).Recent films such as City of Hope and Lone Star exhibit his great gifts as he follows his characters' complex journeys towards self-honesty and personal truth.Twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, he has also written novels, short stories, a book on low-budget film-making, and created the television series Shannon's Deal .In Sayles on Sayles , Gavin Smith takes Sayles step by step through the trajectory of his career and film-making practice, and in the process illuminates the work of the one of the truly authentic US independent film-makers.Gavin Smith is a contributing editor to Film Comment .

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director, he was an award-winning writer of fiction. Praised for his naturalism and lyricism, the Washington Post described him as “one of our most exciting and accomplished young writers.”Now Sayles has written his first short story collection in twenty-five years. The keynote story—“Dillinger in Hollywood”—is populated by leftovers from the Golden Age of Hollywood who live in a nursing home catering for “below-the-line” talent—dancers, stunt doubles, horse wranglers, stand-ins, studio drivers—who wait for death and dementia, playing cards, breaking hips, busting ribs, and telling tall tales of days gone by.Dillinger in Hollywood showcases Sayles’s uncanny ear for language, his skill at crafting character, humor, and atmosphere, and his ability, as Barbara Kingsolver has written, “to pull apart our most cherished myths and icons and see what they’re really made of.”

They came downriver in their thousands. Their teeth could strip a living man to the bone in seconds. Their hunger for flesh was insatiable and their vicious attacks had already left a trail of carnage and mutilation in their wake.As the waters flowed, so the deadly fish went with them, ever nearer, nearer to the unsuspecting Lost River Holiday Camp. Children bathed, couples lingered in the shadows, water-skiers sped unknowingly towards the horror that was surging towards them.And for the piranha, it was feeding time.

In the first of these screenplays a doctor journeys through a Mexican community intimidated by gunmen. The second uses a murder investigation to reflect political and emotional anxieties on the Texas/Mexico border. Additional text by the author discusses the development of the two screenplays.

This latest edition in the best-selling annual Letterhead & Logo Design series features innovative and exciting work from well-known design leaders, new design firms, and cutting-edge artists. From logos to letterheads, business cards to envelopes, the creative techniques portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges. Design firms and their clients will find this an invaluable resource for inspiring ideas that grab the viewer's attention and create a lasting impression.

John Sayles -- winner of the John Steinbeck Award and others -- has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. Silver City and Other Screenplays is a collection of Sayles's greatest work, something that will delight his legion of fans and also aspiring screenwriters and film students who will regard the book as a master class in the art of screenwriting. Silver City and Other Screenplays includes Sayles's most celebrated work -- including Matewan, Return of the Secaucus Seven, Lone Star, and Passion Fish (for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay), and his latest film Silver City, a spirited lampoon and a timely, toxic warning about the present state of American democracy.

From the Oscar-nominated filmmaker comes a complex and sweeping historical novel about Henry Ford — the Elon Musk of his day — and the violent rise of the Ford Motor Company in 1920-30’s Detroit, featuring strikes, riots, misbegotten jungle expeditions, and the story behind Ford's private army . . .As the Depression hits Detroit, Henry Ford — who doesn't like change — finds himself having to confront the crash of the economy, which he blames on the Jews. But his mass firings and severe salary reductions lead to an uproar, including massive hunger protests at the factory. It also heightens ethnic tension in the city, because Ford, who resisted hiring African-Americans in the first place, lays them all off first. Can his private army — consisting of ex-cons and gangsters from the Chicago Mob — keep things under control?And what about the rubber plantation he's trying to build in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, so that he can wrest control of the rubber industry for tires? It's off to a disastrous start, with a food riot by the indigenous employees that led to Ford having to borrow the Brazilian army. There also seems to be a blight affecting the thousands of newly planted rubber trees . . .John Sayles presents this epic saga with a cast of characters featuring many of the real historical figures involved, including fascinating character studies of Henry Ford, his beleaguered son Edsel, the ex-cop running Ford's huge, private "security" force, Harry Bennett, and appearances by union leader Walter Reuther and boxer Joe Louis. It is also a stirring portrayal of the people who toiled in the hyper-monotonous jobs of the factories in Detroit and the Brazilian plantation.Piercing the image of one of our most vaunted historical figures, and bringing forth the brave and inspiring story of the people who actually built Ford's empire, Crucible is the kind of griping, revealing look at the American character that John Sayles has become famous for.

The infamous John Sayles draft for Jurassic Park 4, featuring dinosaur/human/dog hybrids and a brief return to Nublar. Read with caution: this almost got made. Many ideas transitioned into Jurassic World.

Annotated Civil Statutes of the State of Containing the General Civil Statutes of the Twentieth Legislature (Special Session) and of the Twenty-First, Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third Legislatures (General and Special): With Notes to Decisions of Courts of Last Resort, Including Volume 85 Supreme Court and Volume 1 Supplement for 1888-1893. John Sayles Gale, Making of Modern Law The Making of Modern Primary Sources, 1620-1926 contains a virtual goldmine of information for researchers of American legal history --- an archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition ++++ Yale Law Library LPSY0071400 State Codes The Making of Modern Primary Sources, 1620-1926 United States St. Louis, The Gilbert Book Company, 1894 1894 viii, 981; 7; p.; 26 cm

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. ... This is the effect of a deed which purports to convey the property, and not the right of the maker of the instrument. On its face it passes an indefeasible title, and gives no notice that there may be some secret claim which may defeat it. The law makes it what it purports to be, a conveyance of a good title to the land, so far as such secret claims are concerned, by forbidding the owner to assert such claim agaiust the purchaser, where the deed has or has not a clause of warranty. This clause forms no part of the conveyance; when the instrument in which it is contained purports to make a full and perfect conveyance of the land described in it, this clause does not strengthen or enlarge the title conveyed. If a grantor conveys no more than his title, the presumption is that he had doubts as to his right to the land, and notice of some opposing claim, and thus expresses that doubt upon the face of the deed. If he conveys the land without restriction as to title, the presumption is that he had and intended to convey as full a title as could be had in the land, and that he had no doubts of his right so to do. The purchaser in each case has notice that he is getting such title as his grantor purports to convey. In the one case, a doubtful title, and he is put upon inquiry as to the claim which casts the doubt upon it; in the other, a full title, and he need make no inquiry upon the subject.3 »Ante, art. 847. Richardson v. Levi, 67 T. 359. Art. 1076. Recitals in chain of title, notice.--Recitals in the chain of title under which possession is held will charge a subsequent purchaser with notice of facts disclosed thereby.1 But such constructive notice does not extend to recitals in deeds prior to an unrecorded mesne conveyance, or to deeds under which the...

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