Down and Dirty Pictures

Guaranteed sensation in paperback By the internationally bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls which has sold over 85,000 copies and is solid backlist Peter Biskind is the former editor of Premiere and also writes regularly for Vanity Fair

An explosive expose of the men who changed independent cinema for ever in the 1990sIn 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 the competition. In Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind tells the incredible story of these filmmakers, the growth of Sundance into the premier showcase of independent film, and the meteoric rise of the controversial Weinstein brothers who left a trail of carnage in their wake yet created an Oscar factory that is the envy of the studios.