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Matewan [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: John Sayles
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Director: John Sayles
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"Independent filmmaker John Sayles, in concert with his intimidatingly efficient staff (especially art director Dan Bishop and cinematographer Haskell Wexler), performs miracles with the tight $4 million budget alotted to Matewan. The plot, related in flashback from the point of view of an elderly miner (Will Oldham), concerns a fictional 1920 labor action against the Stone Mountain Coal Company of Matewan, West Virginia. Chris Cooper plays a former WWI member sent by the United Mine Worker...

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