Matewan (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG-13
It takes more than guns to kill a man.
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- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 29, 2019
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell & Will Oldham | |
Performer: | David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe, Ken Jenkins, Gordon Clapp, Bob Gunton, Jace Alexander, Joe Grifasi, Josh Mostel, Tom Wright, Michael Mantell & Frank Hoyt Taylor | |
Directed by | John Sayles | |
Screenwriting by | John Sayles | |
Composition by | Mason Daring | |
Produced by | Peggy Rajski & Maggie Renzi | |
Director of Photography: | Haskell Wexler |
Entertainment Reviews:
94%
TOMATOMETER
...Often inspiring....An American folk epic....[MATEWAN] has a wonderful period look, plus unerring cinematography by Wexler and acting with a rare ensemble vibrancy...
Los Angeles Times
...A finely hewn tale of corruption set in a mining town....John Sayles' best picture to date...
Total Film
...MATEWAN is a heartfelt, straight-ahead tale of labor organizing in the coal mines of West Virginia in 1920....MATEWAN is certainly Sayles' best-looking, most professional film to date with period-perfect production design...
Variety
[A] superior modern-day western....A compassionate, socially committed drama, MATEWAN tells the true story of a coal miners' strike in West Virginia in the early 1920s...
Uncut
...The sweetness and simplicity of an Appalachian ballad....There's not a weak performance in the film...
New York Times
Product Description:
The year is 1920, the setting Matewan, West Virginia, where the town's coal miners labor under miserable, unhealthy conditions. Enter Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a rebellious union leader who wants to organize the West Virginian miners, as well as the Italians and blacks brought in as workers. Based on a real massacre in Matewan that started the 1920-1921 Coal War between miners and coal company thugs, MATEWAN subverts the convention of Westerns like HIGH NOON. Kenehan is not the drifter who will save the miners with his skill at a six-shooter; rather, he is a pacifist whose message of non-violent resistance the miners have difficulty accepting. The story is divided into four parts, alternating between times when Kenehan prevails and times when the instinct for revenge against the coal company wins out. The first large-scale historical epic made by director John Sayles (who once worked in the Meat Packer's Union), MATEWAN is a subtle strike against the anti-union climate of the 1980s and a moving portrait of the difficulties of collective action.
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