John Sayles

  • Summer 2017

Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2017: An Oasis of Intimacy in the Vast Mountain Night

A diehard ski racer, Dave McCoy built the first of his portable rope tows on 11,053-foot Mammoth Mountain 80 years…

7 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned: Kevin Smith, Jim Jarmusch, Anthony Minghella, John Sayles, James Mangold and Robert Duvall

Instead of one moviemaker serving up a single course of wisdom, this Wednesday we have five experts coming together to…

10 years ago
  • Movie News

Best of 2013: 10 Articles to Sum Up the Year in MovieMaker

2014 has been upon us for 10 whole days now. With the benefit of such distance, we at MovieMaker think…

10 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned: John Sayles’ Golden Rules of Moviemaking

Stop and think for a while - which working American director do you suppose would give the sagest, most no-nonsense…

10 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Michael Ballhaus

Michael Ballhaus, ASC is an indisputable cinematography great. As a key collaborator for directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin…

17 years ago