"Peter Biskind" is a cultural critic, film historian, journalist, former executive editor of Premiere (magazine)/Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996, and the author of books depicting life in Hollywood, including Seeing Is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair (magazine)/Vanity Fair. His work has appeared in a number of publications that include Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Paris Match, The Nation, The New York Times, The Times (London), and the Los Angeles Times as well as in film journals such as Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly.

He has served as the editor-in-chief of American Film from 1981 to 1986.

Biskind's books have been translated into more than thirty different languages.

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The 1990s saw a convergence between traditional independent films and Hollywood, ... Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film.

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[Sundance] could have had much more impact than it has now if some of Redford's initiatives ... were better managed, ... He's got the vision; he just seems to shoot himself in the foot when it comes to putting the vision into practice.

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I've never had a puff of marijuana, ... I've never had cocaine. I've never had speed. I've never had heroin. I've never had a sleeping pill.

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It was a sleepy gathering, not yet the make-or-break event for filmmakers that it would become, The festival was regarded by many distributors as toxic.

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Miramax applied studio-marketing techniques to independent films.

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