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

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


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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film Peter Biskind
Publisher: Simon & Schuster



Independent Cinema, Miramax, and the success of Pulp Fiction The film is mostly known for its dialogue, comedy, brutality, and nonlinear storytelling. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film By Peter Biskind. The first book was Peter Biskind's "Down and Dirty Pictures", a lengthy piece of film history that covers the rise of American independent film through the early 1990s until the early 2000s. As the required reading about the '70s American film scene—well, his follow-up, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film, does the same for the independent film scene of the '90s.). The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Palm-Star is developing a feature film adaptation of Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film into a feature length comedy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. Down.and.Dirty.Pictures.Miramax. Call Number: PN1999 .M57 B57 2004. There's a book called Down And Dirty Pictures that chronicles the rise of Miramax and Sundance in the 1990s as "independent" film went mainstream when. This So-Called Disaster Down & Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind. Biskind's book mainly focuses on the two camps that helped produced and distribute some of the most iconic and influential independent films of '90s: Miramax Pictures under the leadership of Bob and Harvey Weinstein and the Sundance Institute financed and run by Robert Redford. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and the Golden Camera at Cannes. €�Interview: Spike Lee.” Sight and Sound, 13.4 (2003): 15. To pay attention to matters more urgent and more political than the film industry, I have only gotten about half-way through Peter Biskind's “Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film”. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood's heart, reviving John Travolta's career, making stars of Samuel L. The rise and fall was documented in Peter Biskind's widely read book, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film.

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