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Article: All you ever wanted to know about independent film deals.
- Article from:
- Video Age International
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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SPIKE MIKE SLACKERS & DYKES
A GUIDED TOUR ACROSS A DECADE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA
JOHN PIERSON
John Pierson, the author of Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema (Hyperion, 371 pp.), asserts that the world of independent film operates in 10-year cycles. He believes that the last cycle began with the 1984 release of director Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, a no-frills production that made other filmmakers realize that great work could be done on a low budget. The decade progressed with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989; Steven Soderbergh's feature was a popular hit, creating a thirst for ...