Matewan (Region B) Stanley Kubrick prefigure his later films’ concerns

prefigure his later films’ concerns with strange institutions

all supervised and approved by director Guillermo del Toro

and Jack has more than 400 separate interchangeable heads

No matter how unnatural or unbelievable

but arguably his greatest debt was to classical American cinema

Matewan (Region B) Stanley Kubrick prefigure his later films’ concernsWritten and Directed by John Sayles (PIRANHA, THE HOWLING) this 1920s set drama based on real events, details the brutal battle between miners, strikebreakers and a corrupt coal mining company in a tense and emotional story of small town poverty, bitterness and exploitation. When union man Joe Kenehan (Chis Cooper) arrives in the backwater town of Matewan, West Virginia to organise a workforce to stand up against the Stone Mountain Coal company, he