John Sayles
Made films the shows talk about.
Wikidata Q2141212: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Baby It's You, which After Hours with Alison Sivitz credits them on.
Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Baby It's You (1983); Return of the Secaucus 7; none. Count them as writer (1 film) instead.
Draws on
What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.
Drawn on by
What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.
After Hours (1985): 1 line
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lineage (production lineage) · through Baby It's You (1983), which they directed:
Baby It's You ⇒ After Hours (the host's read).
Without Baby It's You (Dunn/Robinson, Arquette, Ballhaus) there is no After Hours, since it brought Ballhaus to Scorsese.
“without that movie, we don't have after hours either because they bring Michael Bauhaus to Scorsese.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
The Big Chill (1983): 1 line
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lineage (lineage) · through Return of the Secaucus 7, which they directed:
Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read).
Called a precursor to The Big Chill.
“precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
What the speakers said they did
Directing (4) everyone in directing
- director, Baby It's You (Blank Check with Griffin & David, After Hours with Alison Sivitz)
- director, Baby It's You (The Rewatchables, ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey)
- writer/director (directing half), Return of the Secaucus 7 (The Rewatchables, ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
- independent-cinema elder, none (The Big Picture, Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster)
Writing (1) everyone in writing
- writer/director, Return of the Secaucus 7 (The Rewatchables, ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Other (1) everyone in other
- screenwriter, John Sayles' unmade Jurassic Park 4 script (Blank Check with Griffin & David, The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
What was said about them, by kind
career (1)
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career (career):
John Sayles → Return of the Secaucus 7.
Sayles' films are about lower-middle-class people, unlike Kasdan's.
“that's what almost all of John Sales's movies are about lower middle class people.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Fun items about them
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fun, about
John Sayles:
Legendary unmade Jurassic Park 4 script in which a scientist makes half-velociraptor, half-human commandos with guns strapped to their arms.
“half velociraptor, half human commando agents with gun strapped to their arms, who like went in and were like a black ops team.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:33:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)