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A look back at Miramax and Dimension’s various re-cuttings and re-packagings of the works of the legendary martial artist and screen comedian.

In spring of 1995, with the releases of “Exotica,” “Muriel’s Wedding,” and “Priest,” Miramax was ready to test the limits of censors and audiences.

Even the Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami fell victim to the indifference of Miramax with this 1994 meta-drama.

Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just […]

This month marks Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday (and next month marks the 124th anniversary of his death) so let’s go back to that brief time when Miramax was in the Oscar Wilde-adapting business. 

The 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s revolutionary ‘Pulp Fiction’ is fast approaching, but let’s give special attention to a less-than revolutionary movie that came out twenty years ago — on home video! — that QT slapped his name on.

The recently-departed actress’s four films for Miramax in the mid-to-late 1990s weren’t among her crowning achievements, but they also showed that she never phoned it in.

Our look back at the Miramax castoffs of summer ’99 continues with this Colin Firth-fronted coming-of-age comedy/drama.

This nuanced story of a liberal father and his fundamentalist son was one of several films Miramax unceremoniously dumped in theaters in the summer of ’99.

Director Wayne Wang and writer Paul Auster had such a great time making their Brooklyn indie, they got Miramax to finance another one.

For this month’s rundown of the cinematic misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein, we look back at a 1989 historical drama that Miramax worked overtime to turn into a cause célèbre.