Next month, indieWIRE will launch a new interview series featuring questions posed by our readers. Our first interview will be with acclaimed indie filmmaker, John Sayles.
John Sayles' new film, "Silver City," will have its world premiere next month at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival and open in theaters on September 17th. We are currently seeking questions from indieWIRE readers. More information on the film is available below.
Please submit questions by email, or feel free to post them in the comment section of this blog entry.
NEWMARKET FILMS Description:
From John Sayles, one of the essential, iconoclastic voices of American independent cinema, comes SILVER CITY, a film that is equal parts scathing political lampoon and sun-stunned neo-noir detective story.
Set against the backdrop of a mythic “New West,” SILVER CITY follows grammatically-challenged, “user-friendly” candidate Dickie Pilager (Chris Cooper), scapegrace scion of Colorado’s venerable Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), during his gubernatorial campaign.
When Pilager finds that he’s reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss), hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O’Brien (Danny Huston) to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family’s enemies. In the tradition of the great films noir, Danny’s investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.
With pitch-perfect dialogue, unerring sense-of-place, and a slashing satiric strain, SILVER CITY offers John Sayles’s timely and toxic look at the state of the union on the eve of the 2004 Presidential election.
