Down And Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, And The Rise Of Independent Film.epub

one of the results of all this is a proliferation of what are called mid-range movies, about which i have a lot to say in a moment. but here i want to point out that the biggest trend in recent years has been a shift from the movies that are low-budget and challenging to the movies that are of the same magnitude as easy riders but with more hollywood touch: a bigger budget, more of the trappings of big-budget hollywood, with big stars and big stars’ entourages.

the first section of this article focuses on a particular aspect of the question of independent filmmaking, as it emerged in the united states in the 1980s: what was the role of miramax in the development of the indie movement? miramax films, founded in 1985 by brothers bob and harvey weinstein, was the first independent film company to be founded in hollywood, and was very influential in shaping the indie movement. the second part of the article turns to a related question, namely, how did the cinema of independent film develop in the 1980s? the third section of the article focuses on some of the most characteristic aspects of the independent film movement, including the idea of the indie cinema school and the emergence of a gallery/cinema culture in which indie films were showcased and screened.

it s not only that a huge budget makes a big-budget movie easier to make, it also makes it easier for an actor to make the mistake of assuming that the whole point of a movie is to be a star. in a small independent movie, actors are usually not stars, and the whole enterprise of the independent filmmaker is to keep the actors in their place. one of the reasons this is so important is that hollywood has always been a kind of factory, in which the stars are on loan from a higher-up, who is happy to have them make a few films for him, provided the films are profitable. the lower the budget of a film, the fewer the stars it usually has, and the more likely it is to be a true artistic creation, not a mass-market product.
one of the results of all this is a proliferation of what are called mid-range movies, about which i have a lot to say in a moment. but here i want to point out that the biggest trend in recent years has been a shift from the movies that are low-budget and challenging to the movies that are of the same magnitude as easy riders but with more hollywood touch: a bigger budget, more of the trappings of big-budget hollywood, with big stars and big stars’ entourages.
the first section of this article focuses on a particular aspect of the question of independent filmmaking, as it emerged in the united states in the 1980s: what was the role of miramax in the development of the indie movement? miramax films, founded in 1985 by brothers bob and harvey weinstein, was the first independent film company to be founded in hollywood, and was very influential in shaping the indie movement. the second part of the article turns to a related question, namely, how did the cinema of independent film develop in the 1980s? the third section of the article focuses on some of the most characteristic aspects of the independent film movement, including the idea of the indie cinema school and the emergence of a gallery/cinema culture in which indie films were showcased and screened.
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