John Sayles may be my favorite filmmaker-- I think I've seen all the movies he's directed, and they're all good, most great. He has a knack for managing ensembles, and tends to get fantastic performances out of his actors. The stories, which he also writes, always unfold on a human scale with an absence of artifice or melodrama. My favorite is probably Lone Star (1996), but the first was Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980). Here's a scene from the latter, which involves a weekend reunion of a bunch of old college friends, in which we learn the source of the film's title:
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