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...Cinema...
...niche marketing shrewdly chosen, low-budget "art house" films, most of which have been rejected by the big studios as noncommercial. Miramax Co- Chairmen Harvey Weinstein, 37, and his brother Bob, 35, have proved them wrong. Three of the ten films they released last year -- My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso and sex, lies, and videotape -- are up for a total of seven Academy Awards this month. The Weinsteins have also earned something rare among independents: big profits...
...Weinsteins, who look more like rumpled used-car dealers than Armani- outfitted moguls, say their winning knack comes from a cinema-saturated childhood in Queens, N.Y. "One day we saw this amazing movie Truffaut had done about street kids called The 400 Blows, and it spoke to us," recalls Harvey. "We fell in love with films." They still go with what speaks to them personally, putting no stock in prevailing Hollywood wisdom. They were enchanted last year by My Left Foot, about a severely crippled Irish artist. "So many people said, 'It's not sexy, it doesn't have...
...Cinema...
...CINEMA PARADISO. In this Oscar nominee for best foreign picture, a Sicilian boy of the 1950s sees movies as the whole world -- a panorama of laughter, drama and forbidden dreams...