Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film Michael Mmbuji - Technology & Engineering |

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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film Michael Mmbuji - Technology & Engineering |In this "dishy superbly reported" (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywood most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax Films an indie powerhouse. As he did in his acclaimed Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind "takes on the movie industry of the 1990s and again gets the story" (The New York