Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent FilmSimon & Schuster, 2004 - 544 páginas "It wasn't so long ago that the Sundance Film Festival was an inconsequential event somewhere in Utah, and Miramax was a tiny distributor of music documentaries and soft-core trash. Today, of course, Sundance is the most important film festival this side of Cannes, and Miramax has become an industry giant, part of the huge Disney empire. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell--who once had to max out their credit cards to realize their visions on the screen--are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman. Down and Dirty Pictures chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines Sundance and Miramax--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 his brother, Bob, made Miramax an indie powerhouse. Biskind follows Sundance as it grew from a regional film festival to the premier showcase of independent film, succeeding almost despite the mercurial Redford, whose visionary plans were nearly thwarted by his own quixotic personality. He charts in fascinating detail the meteoric rise of the controversial Harvey Weinstein, often described as the last mogul, who created an Oscar factory that became the envy of the studios, while leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. As in Easy Riders, Biskind's incisive account is loaded with vibrant anecdotes and outrageous stories, all of it blended into a fast-moving narrative. Redford, the Weinsteins, and the directors, producers, and actors Biskind profiles are the people who reinvented Hollywood, making independent films mainstream. But success invariably means compromise, and it remains to be seen whether the indie spirit can survive its corporate embrace. Candid, mesmerizing, and penetrating, Down and Dirry Pictures is a must-read for anyone interested in the film world and where it's headed."--Jacket flaps. |
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... Hollywood — a wave of mostly film school - educated kids who , under the in- fluence of drugs , European cinema , and the antiwar movement , exploited a nearly bankrupt studio system to produce the best American films of the second half ...
... Hollywood — a wave of mostly film school - educated kids who , under the in- fluence of drugs , European cinema , and the antiwar movement , exploited a nearly bankrupt studio system to produce the best American films of the second half ...
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... Hollywood directors - Coppola and George Lucas - had either failed , in Coppola's case , or succeeded all too well , like Lucas's Skywalker empire . You couldn't really blame people like Redford for just turning their backs on the whole ...
... Hollywood directors - Coppola and George Lucas - had either failed , in Coppola's case , or succeeded all too well , like Lucas's Skywalker empire . You couldn't really blame people like Redford for just turning their backs on the whole ...
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... Hollywood aesthetic . What defines an indie film has been argued ad nauseam , but in those days , despite quibbles ... Hollywood was not . If Holly- wood made “ movies , " indies made " films . " If Hollywood sold fantasy and es ...
... Hollywood aesthetic . What defines an indie film has been argued ad nauseam , but in those days , despite quibbles ... Hollywood was not . If Holly- wood made “ movies , " indies made " films . " If Hollywood sold fantasy and es ...
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Made in | 27 |
The Anger Artists | 59 |
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