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John Sayles's Matewan, an intricately scripted and historically nuanced drama about the insurrection of coal miners in 1920 West Virginia, might have been the best U.S. film to premiere at Cannes in 1987... But to savor this ambitious convergence of labor politics, racial legacies, and multiethnic tensions, or marvel at Haskell Wexler's textured resourcefulness in filming gunfights in pitch-black woodlands, festivalgoers that year had to plumb the Directors' Fortnight section.

The film—designed in shades of moss, brown, and charcoal, and bathed in delicate, diffuse light by Haskell Wexler, whose camerawork earned an Oscar nomination—is rooted in the textures and rhythms of an earlier era; it's easily the most visually expressive of Sayles' features. But it is, above all, a movie driven by the speaking voice...