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

Paperback • 2005 • English

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

By Peter Biskind

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In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers began to flower outside the Hollywood studio system and in the following decade, the independent film movement bloomed. Dozens of lesser-known filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino began walking away with coveted prizes at Cannes and eventually the Academy Awards. Many of these directors were discovered at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival and then scooped up by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, whose company Miramax laid waste to t...Show more

Films, cinema
Individual film directors, film-makers
Film: styles and genres

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ISBN

9780747565710

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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