Download or read book Down and Dirty Pictures written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-01-03 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers inspired by the directors of the 1970s began to flower outside the studio system. In the following decade, the independent movement bloomed. In this volume Biskind tells the story of these filmmakers and the independent distributors.