Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
 

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film

by Peter Biskind

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 from obscurity to the Oscars, most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with... (read more)

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Wrote about on my blog for 13 February 2004.

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Kassiana
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Not really about the rise of independent film, this is about the grudge this author has against Robert Redford and the Weinstein brothers at Miramax for doing stuff that's not all that bad. Try a different book if you're really interested in independent film.

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