Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and... by Peter Biskind

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Down and Dirty Pictures chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines -- the Sundance Film Festival and Miramax Films -- that have powered them. As he did in his acclaimed Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind profiles the people who took the independent movement... read more

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When Steven Soderbergh stepped off the plane at the Salt Lake City International Airport headed for the U.S. Film Festival, thirty miles to the northeast in Park City, it was January 21, 1989, a Saturday afternoon, and he was just seven days past his twenty-sixth birthday.

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