Please join Clark University's Department of Visual and Performing Arts as it welcomes director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist John Sayles in person to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his Oscar-nominated film, Lone Star!    

This special event is sponsored by Clark's Screen Studies undergraduate program — it's FREE, and open to the public!  

Lone Star premiered in March of 1996 at South by Southwest (SXSW). Sayles's original screenplay for Lone Star was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA award, and Golden Globe Award.

From Criterion.com:

A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.