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Name: Bob
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 Matewan:  Beautifully Placed, Pictured and Performed

     It seems not widely known that this poignant and proud film was actually shot not in Matewan but in Thurmond, W.Va., a once booming and today all-but-abandoned coal town absent from many maps, where main street is indeed a railroad track and where a visit now is a step back in time . . . to that very time . . . a time born of coal mines and railroads that I have been fortunate to visit and photograph with my wife, who’s from nearby Huntington.

     Having walked amid the water tanks, the coal and sand towers . . . the abandoned bank and hotel fronts . . . and the homes later seen in an earlier time through the movie made this an extremely absorbing film for me. My wife would probably not agree, as such things about the history of West Virginia, and depictions of its people, like the Okies in "Grapes of Wrath," seem to strike her with a different, harder kind of edge. 

     To me, Thurmond is as wonderful a setting for "Matewan" as John Sayles’s movie is a palpable depiction of life for men and families struggling powerlessly -- almost -- for each day. The darkened "streets" of Thurmond today, like the blackened young miner’s face at the film’s end, say it all at a glance.

     See it.

Added: February 6, 2008
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Louminator
Louminator says:

Terrific calendar photos. I especially like the cover shot of peeling Paints. I love distressed and battered walls. Maybe because they reflect something inside myself :)
Posted: February 5, 2008 9:51AM EST
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