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Few directors are as consistently wonderful as John Sayles, but
his path to art-house cinema was circuitous. After embarking on
an acclaimed career as a fiction writer, John
Sayles cut his filmmaking teeth in the Roger Corman stable
of B-movie scriptwriters and filmed his first feature, The Return
of the Secaucus Seven, for under $40,000 in under four weeks,
a hit-and-run, low-budget approach that he's never really abandoned.
Though he claims to eschew cinematic art in favor of celluloid
discussions of human and political relationships, his movies have
a certain singular style, combining a languid pace with evocative
lighting and ensemble casting. The best part of John
Sayles's work is his writing; his screenplays are subtle,
complex, and searching, never settling for conventional plots
and pat endings, but instead hinting that perhaps there are no
answers to tough questions. He finally received the nod from Oscar
with a nomination for Best Screenplay for Lone Star.
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