In the second of our series of interviews with women at the heart of industry change, we spoke to Doc & Film CEO Daniela Elstner, one of Europe’s most respected sales executives. Just a few months ago Elstner was on a high after her movie Touch Me Not scooped the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear top prize, her second film to do so. The president of French sales agent union Adef is now in Cannes with Wang Bing’s Official Selection documentary Dead Souls and Directors’ Fortnight entry Samouni Road.
Elstner is an unassuming expert, however. For example, few people know that in 2016 she received the Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest civilian honor for services to film. Until recently, even fewer were aware of a dark secret from her past—the fact that Elstner was once a victim herself. Twenty years ago while attending a festival for film promotion agency UniFrance,...
Elstner is an unassuming expert, however. For example, few people know that in 2016 she received the Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest civilian honor for services to film. Until recently, even fewer were aware of a dark secret from her past—the fact that Elstner was once a victim herself. Twenty years ago while attending a festival for film promotion agency UniFrance,...
- 5/10/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
French actress Catherine Deneuve has signed an open letter calling Hollywood’s response to the recent wave of sexual harassment scandals a “witch-hunt” against men.
The letter, signed by nearly 100 actresses, writers, and academics and published in the French newspaper Le Monde, slams the #MeToo anti-harassment movement for forcing a “wave of purification.”
“Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not – nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,” the letter reads, according to The Guardian. “Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone...
The letter, signed by nearly 100 actresses, writers, and academics and published in the French newspaper Le Monde, slams the #MeToo anti-harassment movement for forcing a “wave of purification.”
“Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not – nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,” the letter reads, according to The Guardian. “Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone...
- 1/9/2018
- by Jodi Guglielmi
- PEOPLE.com
An open letter has been published in the French newspaper Le Monde (via The Guardian) in which nearly 100 actresses, writers, and academics slam the number of “denunciations” that have occurred in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment and abuse allegations. The women say the accusations against Weinstein have resulted in a “witch hunt” against men that is threatening sexual freedom.
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“Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not – nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,” the letter reads. “Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone’s knee or try to steal a kiss.”
The letter has been signed by women such as actress Catherine Deneuve and bestselling author Catherine Millet. The women criticize the...
Read More:Alicia Vikander Joins Nearly 600 Swedish Actresses for Open Letter Against Sex Abuse in Sweden
“Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not – nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,” the letter reads. “Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone’s knee or try to steal a kiss.”
The letter has been signed by women such as actress Catherine Deneuve and bestselling author Catherine Millet. The women criticize the...
- 1/9/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
French actress Catherine Deneuve joined dozens of women in signing an open letter that calls the #MeToo movement “puritanical” and a “witch hunt.” The letter, published in France’s Le Monde, says men should be “free to hit on” women and that “rape is a crime but insistent or clumsy flirting is not,” according to a translation in The Local. Among roughly 100 other French writers, performers and academics who signed the letter was Deneuve along with Catherine Millet — author of the 2002 memoir “The Sexual Life of Catherine M.” Also Read: Read Oprah's Full Golden Globes #MeToo, #Timesup Speech The letter went.
- 1/9/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
NEWSRaoul Coutard shooting BreathlessThe great cinematographer Raoul Coutard, legendary for his work shooting Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, and also a collaborator of Philippe Garrel, Nagisa Oshima, Costa-Gavras and François Truffaut, has died at the age of 92.Keep film alive! The New York non-profit film organization Mono No Aware has launched a Kickstarter to fund "the nation's first ever non-profit motion picture lab." An ambitious and worthy goal!Two film projects in the works we're very excited about: Claire Denis' High Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Patricia Arquette and co-written by Zadie Smith, and Leos Carax's Annette, a musical to star Adam Driver (everywhere these days!) and Rooney Mara.The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the first part of its retrospective devoted to exiled Chilean fabulist Raúl Ruiz, which will include new digital restorations of Bérénice (1983) and The Golden Boat (1990), as well as 35mm prints of such...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
Chicago – Strike one of far too many: “Fifty Shades of Grey” author Erika Leonard (better known as E.L. James) has never lived the Bdsm lifestyle. And therefore, nor should she be writing about, romanticizing and profiteering on it. On a $40 million budget, the film earned $30.2 million on its opening Friday and is on track for a record-breaking international weekend grab of $158 million.
But this is as irresponsible as an author writing about rape who has never been. Anne Rice wrote “The Sleeping Beauty Quartet” (four erotic Bdsm novels under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure), but she was actually engaged in Bdsm with her husband. Experienced with it, Rice also wrote the Bdsm romance novels “Exit to Eden” and “Belinda” under the pen name Anne Rampling.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
While “Fifty Shades of Grey” is every trashy novelist’s dream, there are much better ones including Sylvia Day’s “Bared to You,” Leah Brooke’s “Crescendo,...
But this is as irresponsible as an author writing about rape who has never been. Anne Rice wrote “The Sleeping Beauty Quartet” (four erotic Bdsm novels under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure), but she was actually engaged in Bdsm with her husband. Experienced with it, Rice also wrote the Bdsm romance novels “Exit to Eden” and “Belinda” under the pen name Anne Rampling.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
While “Fifty Shades of Grey” is every trashy novelist’s dream, there are much better ones including Sylvia Day’s “Bared to You,” Leah Brooke’s “Crescendo,...
- 2/14/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The erotically charged novel Fifty Shades of Grey has already become a phenomenon among eBook readers, but now it will be titillating on a much larger screen.
Universal Pictures and Focus Features announced this morning they have acquired film rights to the novel authored by TV executive and mother of two, E.L. James, with plans to create a trilogy out of the novel and its two sequels. “At its core, this is a romance of the most emotionally resonant, but delicate, order — and we look forward to working with our colleagues at Universal to transform E.L. James’ vision into a great film,...
Universal Pictures and Focus Features announced this morning they have acquired film rights to the novel authored by TV executive and mother of two, E.L. James, with plans to create a trilogy out of the novel and its two sequels. “At its core, this is a romance of the most emotionally resonant, but delicate, order — and we look forward to working with our colleagues at Universal to transform E.L. James’ vision into a great film,...
- 3/26/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
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