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Some of the most exciting movies being made today are tackling class tensions and the role of work in our lives. Bong Joon-ho\u2019s Parasite, our cover story last issue, is one major example, with its twisty upstairs-downstairs thriller set-up. But many other films have been taking up the subjects of work and class in a variety of different ways: Boots Riley\u2019s Sorry to Bother You, Stephen Soderbergh\u2019s High Flying Bird, Mike Leigh\u2019s Peterloo, Martin Scorsese\u2019s The Irishman, and Greta Gerwig\u2019s upcoming movie Little Women (the cover of our latest issue). For our latest Film Comment talk at Film at Lincoln Center, we were delighted to discuss work and class with veteran independent filmmaker John Sayles, whose film about striking miners, Matewan, is now available in the Criterion Collection. Also joining Sayles and FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold was Teo Bugbee, a contributor to Film Comment and The New York Times who also works as an organizer for Writers Guild of America East. Starting off with how Matewan was conceived, we covered a lot of ground, spanning decades at the movies and in American history.