Down and Dirty Pictures

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

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 Times ). Biskind charts in fascinating detai