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Indiewood films are those made outside of the Hollywood studio system or traditional independent filmmaking.[1]
Background[edit]
Throughout the middle of the 1990s the word 'Indiewood' was invented to describe a component of the spectrum of American films in which distinctions exist, it seemed as if Hollywood and the independent sector had become blurred.[2][3][4][5]
Indiewood Divisions gain from expert experience of the niche industry by hiring leading independent personalities such as Harvey Weinstein from the Disney fold after the exit of the Weinsteins,[6][7] and James Schamus, former joint head of Good Machine, at Focus Features.[8]
Other subdivisions included Fox Searchlight and Paramount Vantage.[9]
Differences from Hollywood[edit]
The films are often made for far less money than Hollywood films,[10] and each aspect of the filmmaking process has to undergo less scrutiny by committees. Additionally, within the Indiewood approach the filmmaker can take as long as they need in the post-production phase of their film - whereas in Hollywood they are contracted to finish the film in a specific period of time (usually 10 weeks). In Hollywood, the film then goes on to show in focus group screenings on the studio lot. In Indiewood, the filmmakers can determine the next steps of the film.
Most Indiewood films are first shown at film festivals with the hopes of further distribution by being picked up (or purchased) by a larger film company or distributor alongside awards consideration (e.g. 2009's A Single Man).[11]
List of Indiewood filmmakers[edit]
- Lisa Cholodenko[12]
- Satoshi Kon[13]
- Chris Eyre[12]
- Mary Harron[14]
- Todd Haynes[15]
- John Cameron Mitchell[16]
- Gus Van Sant[17]
- Joel and Ethan Coen[16]
- Spike Jonze[14][18]
- Michel Gondry[14][19]
- Wes Anderson[20][10][18]
- Noah Baumbach[13]
- Sofia Coppola[21]
- Allison Anders[15]
- Alexander Payne[15][18]
- Kimberly Peirce[15]
- David O. Russell[15][18]
- Kevin Smith[15]
- Quentin Tarantino[20][10]
- Tim Burton[22]
- Danny Boyle[13]
- Terry Zwigoff[20]
- David Cronenberg[13]
- Christopher Nolan[14]
- Todd Field[16]
- Richard Kelly[13]
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet[16]
- Jared Hess[19]
- Charlie Kaufman[19]
- David Lynch[14]
- David Fincher[18]
- Steven Soderbergh[4]
- Jonathan Glazer[16]
- Richard Linklater[10]
- Robert Altman[23]
- Damien Chazelle[10]
- Tom Ford[11]
- Michael Moore[24][13]
- Mel Gibson[24]
- Paul Thomas Anderson[25][18]
- Paul Haggis[26][13]
List of Indiewood films[edit]
1990s[edit]
- The Player (1992)[23]
- Short Cuts (1993)[23]
- Pulp Fiction (1994)[20][27]≈
- Bottle Rocket (1996)[18]
- Citizen Ruth (1996)[18]
- Flirting with Disaster (1996)[18]
- Good Will Hunting (1997)[28]
- Jackie Brown (1997)[20]
- Lost Highway (1997)[14]
- The Big Lebowski (1998)[29]≈
- Boogie Nights (1998)[25]
- Happiness (1998)[15]
- Rushmore (1998)[18]≈
- Shakespeare in Love (1998)[4]
- Velvet Goldmine (1998)[15]
- American Beauty (1999)[4]
- Being John Malkovich (1999)[14][18][4]
- The Blair Witch Project (1999)[27]
- Boys Don't Cry (1999)[15]≈
- Dogma (1999)[15]
- Fight Club (1999)[18]
- Election (1999)[15][18]
- Magnolia (1999)[18]
- Three Kings (1999)[15][18][4]
2000s[edit]
- American Psycho (2000)[14]
- Finding Forrester (2000)[17]
- Memento (2000)[14]≈
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)[13]
- Traffic (2000)[4]
- Amelie (2001)[16]
- Ghost World (2001)[20][16]
- Gosford Park (2001)[16]
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)[16]
- In the Bedroom (2001)[16]
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)[16]
- Mulholland Drive (2001)[14][16]
- Waking Life (2001)[30][16]
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)[20]
- Sexy Beast (2001)[16]
- Adaptation (2002)[14][4]
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)[27]
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002)[18]
- Solaris (2002)[4]
- Whale Rider (2002)[27]
- American Splendor (2003)[14]
- The Cooler (2003)[24]
- The Fog of War (2003)[24]≈
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)[24]
- In America (2003)[24]
- Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)[20]
- Lost in Translation (2003)[24][27]
- Monster (2003)[24]
- Shattered Glass (2003)[24]
- Thirteen (2003)[24]
- 21 Grams (2003)[24]
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)[14][24][4]
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)[24]
- Napoleon Dynamite (2004)[27]
- The Passion of the Christ (2004)[24][27]
- Sideways (2004)[13][27]
- Super Size Me (2004)[27]
- The Aristocrats (2005)[27]
- Brick (2005)[31]
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)[31][11][13]≈
- Capote (2005)[31]
- Corpse Bride (2005)[32]
- Crash (2005)[31][33]
- Hustle & Flow (2005)[27]
- Babel (2006)[31]
- Bobby (2006)[31]
- Inland Empire (2006)[14]
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006)[31]
- The Namesake (2006)[13]
- The Notorious Betty Page (2005)[31]
- Friends with Money (2006)[31]
- Half Nelson (2006)[31]
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006)[31]
- Iraq in Fragments (2006)[31]
- Jesus Camp (2006)[31]
- Little Children (2006)[31]
- Marie Antoinette (2006)[31]
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006)[31]
- Paprika (2006)[13]
- A Prairie Home Companion (2006)[31]
- The Queen (2006)[31]
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)[31]
- Southland Tales (2006)[13]
- Thank You for Smoking (2006)[31]
- Volver (2006)[31]
- Atonement (2007)[13]
- Eagle vs. Shark (2007)[13]
- Eastern Promises (2007)[13]
- In the Valley of Elah (2007)[13]
- Juno (2007)[13]
- Le Vie en rose (2007)[13]
- Margot at the Wedding (2007)[13]
- A Mighty Heart (2007)[13]
- No Country for Old Men (2007)[34]
- Once (2007)[13]
- Sicko (2007)[13]
- Sunshine (2007)[13]
- There Will Be Blood (2007)[34]
- Waitress (2007)[13]
- Coraline (2009)[22]
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)[22]
- Precious (2009)[35]
- Revolutionry Road (2009)[34]
- A Single Man (2009)[11]
2010s[edit]
- Greenberg (2010)[34]
- The Kids Are All Right (2010)[11]
- Winter's Bone (2010)[10]
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)[10]
- Paranorman (2012)[22]
- Dallas Buyers Club (2013)[10]
- Birdman (2014)[10]
- The Boxtrolls (2014)[22]
- Boyhood (2014)[10]
- Foxcatcher (2014)[10]
- Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)[10]
- Whiplash (2014)[10]
- Isle of Dogs (2018)[22]
Notes[edit]
- ≈ indicates a National Film Registry inductee
See also[edit]
- American Eccentric Cinema
- New Hollywood
- Postmodernist film
- Oscar bait
- Arthouse animation
- Cinephilia
- Sundance Film Festival
References[edit]
- ^ Robey, Tim (5 September 2004). "The rise and rise of Indiewood". Telegraph. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ Home video and Indiewood|Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction|Oxford Academic
- ^ ‘Indie doc’: documentary film and American ‘independent’, ‘indie’ and ‘indiewood’ filmmaking: Studies in Documentary Film Volume 10, 2016 - Issue 1
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema". ibtauris.com. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ The Cinema Book - Google Books (pg.59)
- ^ Review: Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema, by Geoff King|Film Quarterly|University of California Press
- ^ Chapter Eight. Maxed Out: Miramax and Indiewood in the New Millennium - De Gruyter
- ^ King, Geoff (2009). "Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood meets Independent Cinema" (PDF). gkindiefilm.com. I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Somewhere Only We Know on Notebook|MUBI
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m How Indiewood gatecrashed the Oscars|Financial Times
- ^ a b c d e Overcoming the Stigma: The Queer Denial of Indiewood on JSTOR
- ^ a b Chaos Below Canal|Independent Magazine
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y iW BOT | The Golden Child: “Juno” Makes Fox Searchlight the 2007 Market-Share Leader, Lures Young Ad|Indiewire
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Adelaide Research & Scholarship: Postclassical Hollywood/postmodern subjectivity: representation in some ’Indie/Alternative’ Indiewood films
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Inside Indiewood|The Nation
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n The Best of 2001 - Rolling Stone
- ^ a b The best films of the '00s|The A.V. Club
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p BFI|Sight & Sound|Boys' Own Stories
- ^ a b c Wes Anderson, tone and the quirky sensibility: New Review of Film and Television Studies Volume 10, 2012 - Issue 1: Wes Anderson and Co.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Vinyl Noise and Narrative in CD-Era Indiewood - Indy Vinyl
- ^ Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood - Offscreen
- ^ a b c d e f On the Borders: Children’s Horror and Indiewood Animation|Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s|Oxford Academic (Pages 144–177)
- ^ a b c Indiewood and Improvisation|Robert Altman’s Soundtracks: Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion|Oxford Academic
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 'Major minis' blur line between mainstream and independent - Herald Tribune
- ^ a b Ranking Paul Thomas Anderson's films from worst to best|Far Out Magazine
- ^ 'Juno' Laid Low by Sucess - The New York Times
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k CNN.com - Independent films move into spotlight - Aug 9, 2005
- ^ What is indie cinema?|Movies|The Guardian
- ^ The hilarious connection between The Rolling Stones and 'The Big Lebowski|Far Out Magazine
- ^ Roto-Synchresis: Relationships between Body and Voice in Rotoshop Animation - Database for Animation Studies
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Hurray for Indiewood!|Salon.com
- ^ Scenes From Independent Film Week: Incentives, Acting, and Mixing At The IFP Market|IndieWire
- ^ Indie box office: "Juno" slammo!|Salon.com
- ^ a b c d Hollywood's Indies - Google Books (pg.194)
- ^ It's Hollywood vs. Indiewood at Sundance 2010|The Star
External links[edit]
- Indiewood Network - The International Film Community
- Indiewood Finally Figures Out That Their Movies Are Depressing on Vulture
- Indie, Inc. on Project MUSE
Bibliography[edit]
- Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema, John Pierson
- A Killer Life, Christine Vachon
- Down & Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind
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