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- Cinema Paradiso. Year: 1988. Moment: The kisses. A good way to tell if you’re a pod person, this one. A young boy makes friends with the local cinema projectionist, grows up to become a movie director himself and then, upon learning that his old pal has died, discovers a reel left for him.
- My Left Foot. Year: 1989. Moment: Christy writes. The most affecting moment of the film that won Daniel Day-Lewis the first of his three Best Actor Oscars doesn’t actually include Day-Lewis.
- Sex, Lies And Videotape. Year: 1989. Moment: The truth. When you look back on Steven Soderbergh’s debut now it doesn’t look so unusual, but that’s because countless indie dramas since have copied its no frills, no budget, ruthlessly realistic style.
- The Grifters. Year: 1990. Moment: One bad mother. Everyone in this con-artist drama has a heart as black as night, but none more so than Lily (Anjelica Huston), a swindler who’ll let nothing stand in her way, not even her own son (John Cusack).
Dec 12, 2016 · 5. Cold Mountain (2003, directed by Anthony Minghella) Often regarded as the final big Miramax picture and the second from Anthony Minghella on this list of their worst films. The Weinstein’s had the Oscar checklist and Minghella knew how to deliver what they needed to get the Academy voters attention.
Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American independent film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California. Today, it is owned by beIN Media Group and Paramount Global . It was a leading producer and distributor of independent ...
- Trainspotting (1996) The Pitch: Topping the list is the film that’s been voted the Best Scottish film of all time as well as in the Top Ten of British films.
- City of God (2002) The Pitch: This Brazilian gem is a small, gritty, and surprisingly human look at one of the nastiest cities on Earth. Violence and dreams collide as young kids growing up in Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous slum make choices with profound effects.
- There Will Be Blood (2007) The Pitch: I don’t have enough space to write all the awards this thing was nominated for or won, but if you have any doubt about the phenomenon, I’ll point you in the direction of your nearest “I Drink Your Milkshake” t-shirt wearer.
- Heavenly Creatures (1994) The Pitch: Peter Jackson’s most realistic and grounded film is still one of his best. Two girls in 1950’s New Zealand live in a fantasy world where they plan a real-world murder.
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- Pulp Fiction. The magnum opus of Miramax's amazing '90s run, Pulp Fiction, was phenomenological for its effect on the careers of everyone associated with Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece.
- Trainspotting. Danny Boyle's whirlwind film Trainspotting brought to fruition all the promise of his first movie, Shallow Grave, this time with a decadent, illustrious look at the hallucinogenic highs and vomitous lows of heroin addiction.
- The English Patient. Anthony Minghella's association with Miramax produced his two most critically-acclaimed films in the '90s, The English Patient (which he also scripted) and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
- Good Will Hunting. The confluence of talent in Gus Van Sant's 1997 drama became the stuff of film lore upon the release of Good Will Hunting, which won a youthful Matt Damon and Ben Affleck an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Robin Williams, whose talent for dramatic acting finally got its just due.
Nov 5, 2019 · Miramax at 25. It has been one of the great experiments in motion picture history: a company that not only has dared to stake its place alongside the major studios but often has beaten them at ...
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Dec 6, 2007 · Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, who in the summer of 2005 took over the company that Harvey and Bob Weinstein named after their parents and built with their ...
