Ride the Local Through This Mega Movie Map

250 films, 20 lines, 1 amazing visual

"...Miramax posted this subway map of 250 of the world's..."

May 3, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Interview

Steve Buscemi directs and co-stars in this film with Sienna Miller as the pair play out an emotionally charged pas de deux.

"...was not new but rather an escapee from the Miramax vault, circa 1995. Buscemi plays Pierre Peders, a news..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tears of the Black Tiger

This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.

"...indeed too weird to take America by storm – Miramax bought the film after Cannes and shelved it until..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Painted Veil

Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.

"...appeal and literary sensibility. Beneath the veneer of pretty, old-Miramax-style chinoiserie (Jones as a debauched civil servant gone native,..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Promise

This fantastical story from the Chinese director Chen Kaige mixes battles, magic, romance, and mistaken identities for a lovely but unsatisfying blend.

"...Harvey Weinstein in his former capacity as head of Miramax before his distribution company dropped the film, which was..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Best of Youth

"...Miramax, $29.99..."

March 3, 2006 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Before the Fall

Every movie about the Holocaust should be this good, but few are. Heartbreaking and brutal, its tale of two boys training together at an elite school is as intimate and truthful to its characters as it is powerfully topical and politically brave.

"...its festival raves, it should be traveling under the Miramax banner) and it partially takes the shape of a..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Pulse

The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.

"...blood and guts. Made in 2001 and purchased by Miramax for the rights to an American remake (which is..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek is an accomplished Aussie version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; it's also a viscerally told slasher film that manages to do an awful lot with very little.

"...the Dimension Films genre unit of their former company, Miramax), Wolf Creek is an accomplished Aussie version of The..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Underclassman

Nick Cannon from Drumline plays a smart-aleck LAPD bicycle cop in this movie awash in clichés.

"...a person is basically given the keys to a Miramax production – Cannon is the star, executive producer, and..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Hustle

The 1975 film 'Hustle' is a great modern love story disguised as a neo-noir police procedural. Largely unappreciated at the time of its release, the situation has not improved greatly if we are to judge by this no-frills DVD release.

"...Prozac Nation (Miramax Home Entertainment, $29.99): Shelved by Miramax since 2001, this..."

July 8, 2005 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Les Choristes

A box-office smash in its native France, this kindly and spirited film doesn’t exactly break the mold of the heartwarming, humanistic boarding-school dramedy.

"...it to hit town a week after its distributor, Miramax, launched the DVD nationally...."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Kung Fu Hustle

Stephen Chow's chop-socky offering is a manic, hyperentertaining blend of classic kung-fu tropes, special effects, and outrageous comedy.

"...film suffered a fate nearly worse than death when Miramax unwisely chose to recut, rescore, and redub the film..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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"...kid who runs the copier in the mailroom at Miramax. It’s that same heady atmosphere of hope and desperation..."

March 11, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Bride & Prejudice

This Jane Austen adaptation takes the Bollywood out of India and leaves us something too familiar.

"...model, Bollywood superstar, and stone fox making her official Miramax-supported debut before Western eyes. You'll recall the plot from..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Film News

Updates on Robert's and Rick's adaptations, Texas on TV, and 'Dot' plays L.A.; plus, have you ever considered a double bill of 'Tarnation' and 'Mrs. Doubtfire'?

"...square-jawed Marv. For proof, check out the trailer at www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/sin_city.html. Meanwhile, early photos of Richard Linklater's Philip K. Dick..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Hero

If Douglas Sirk had made martial arts movies they probably would have looked something like Zhang Yimou's stunning new opus.

"...the country’s nominee for an Academy Award in 2002. Miramax Films has dallied with releasing the film in the..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

Robert Rodriguez vs. the DGA and Paramount

"...rarely arise. Currently in preproduction at Austin Studios, the Miramax/Dimension Sin City remains a go, but because Rodriguez is..."

April 16, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Ararat

Atom Egoyan's cri du coeur about the Armenian massacre of 1915 gets a fitting two-disc release, with interviews, featurettes about the genocide, and director's commentary that hardly pauses for a breath. Marrit Ingman offers her own commentary.

"...Miramax Home Entertainment, $29.99..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Review by Marrit Ingman

Pinocchio

"...acid in their popcorn. Worst of all, Begnini and Miramax have chosen to dub the original Italian dialogue into..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shallow Hal

"...Paltrow. They can yank the actress out of her Miramax corset movies and park her in a realistic-looking fat..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Full Exposure: Lily Burana's "Strip City'

From Anchorage, Alaska, to New Jersey to Tijuana, Mexico, Lily Burana takes her readers inside the glitziest and seediest strip clubs in the nation in Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America. But Burana, who will be at BookPeople on Monday, October 1, at 7pm, is also armed with a good deal of feminist theory, research, and unflinching opinions about the sex-worker trade.

"...Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America (Talk Miramax Books, $23.95), by Lily Burana, I know that I..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Scary Movie Two

"...at Dimension Films (the action-movie arm of mini-major distributor Miramax Films) fired up the inexhaustible Team Wayans for a..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Golden Bowl

"...year's Cannes, it was passed over for distribution by Miramax, the likeliest outlet for such fare.) Rather, Prawer Jhabvala..."

May 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Get Over It

"...to know is why a once-respectable arthouse outfit like Miramax can't seem to put out anything these days that..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Big Picture

Fall Movie Preview

"...bounce back into the genre with this film, which Miramax bumped from a summer release to position it in..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...least raise some eyebrows. And speaking of visual marvels, Miramax is hoping to set America's loins ablaze with The..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

All the Gory Details

The Maestro of movie make-up Tom Savini talks about George Romero, the increasing popularity of CGI, and what it felt like to shoot a crotch-gun.

"...that. I sent a treatment to George Clooney and Miramax and Artisan about a project I wrote; I did..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Dance Fever

Sundance 2000: The year of "dot-comming," short films, female athletes, and the feverish race for the next big thing.

"...perhaps, is that the amounts paid were more realistic. Miramax's over-$10-million purchase of last year's Happy, Texas, a movie..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Princess Mononoke

Japanese animated feature is packed with an environmentally aware storyline, breathtaking animation, and clever dialogue penned for this American release by Brit fantasist Neil Gaiman and delivered in English by a slew of American actors.

"...Neil Gaiman (The Sandman). As if that weren't enough, Miramax wisely decided to forgo the usual dubbing nightmare in..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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