Rosanna Arquette, the actress-producer who became one of the first prominent individuals to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, says that the disgraced mogul should “absolutely” go to jail.
“I’m triggered today,” the actress told TheWrap CEO Sharon Waxman in an interview after the Sundance premiere of the documentary “Untouchable” about the former indie film giant who’s awaiting trial in Manhattan on five felony charges. (He has denied all criminal wrongdoing.)
“I’m hearing from a lot of the women. … Will we ever be Ok? Is it ever going to be Ok? Maybe when he goes to jail — please, can he go to jail?” she said.
Also Read: 'Untouchable' Film Review: Documentary Revisits Harvey Weinstein Horrors - Too Soon?
Arquette also alluded to the lengths to which Weinstein went to protect himself from potential accusers like Arquette that are detailed in Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary. “But it’s like,...
“I’m triggered today,” the actress told TheWrap CEO Sharon Waxman in an interview after the Sundance premiere of the documentary “Untouchable” about the former indie film giant who’s awaiting trial in Manhattan on five felony charges. (He has denied all criminal wrongdoing.)
“I’m hearing from a lot of the women. … Will we ever be Ok? Is it ever going to be Ok? Maybe when he goes to jail — please, can he go to jail?” she said.
Also Read: 'Untouchable' Film Review: Documentary Revisits Harvey Weinstein Horrors - Too Soon?
Arquette also alluded to the lengths to which Weinstein went to protect himself from potential accusers like Arquette that are detailed in Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary. “But it’s like,...
- 1/27/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
For years, Harvey Weinstein lorded over Sundance with a Machiavellian approach.
This year, he is making a very different kind of appearance as the subject of Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary Untouchable, which made its world premiere Friday at the festival. (Embankment is repping the film for U.S. rights.)
Though the British director, whose credits include One Deadly Weekend in America, says she has never crossed paths with Weinstein, Macfarlane became intrigued by how his notorious behavior with women went unchecked by the film industry for decades. (He has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by dozens of women and is ...
This year, he is making a very different kind of appearance as the subject of Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary Untouchable, which made its world premiere Friday at the festival. (Embankment is repping the film for U.S. rights.)
Though the British director, whose credits include One Deadly Weekend in America, says she has never crossed paths with Weinstein, Macfarlane became intrigued by how his notorious behavior with women went unchecked by the film industry for decades. (He has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by dozens of women and is ...
- 1/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
For years, Harvey Weinstein lorded over Sundance with a Machiavellian approach.
This year, he is making a very different kind of appearance as the subject of Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary Untouchable, which made its world premiere Friday at the festival. (Embankment is repping the film for U.S. rights.)
Though the British director, whose credits include One Deadly Weekend in America, says she has never crossed paths with Weinstein, Macfarlane became intrigued by how his notorious behavior with women went unchecked by the film industry for decades. (He has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by dozens of women and is ...
This year, he is making a very different kind of appearance as the subject of Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary Untouchable, which made its world premiere Friday at the festival. (Embankment is repping the film for U.S. rights.)
Though the British director, whose credits include One Deadly Weekend in America, says she has never crossed paths with Weinstein, Macfarlane became intrigued by how his notorious behavior with women went unchecked by the film industry for decades. (He has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by dozens of women and is ...
- 1/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Of all the terrifying things Harvey Weinstein has ever said — insults hurled, jobs threatened, tantrums unleashed — perhaps the most blood-chilling are these six words: “Don’t you know who I am!?” That’s the line actress Nannette Klatt recalls the producer bellowing when she declined his advances in a private hotel-room meeting. For decades, Weinstein — a Hollywood outsider who’d hustled his way into the industry’s inner circle — was one of the most powerful men in showbiz. He could make careers, and he could crush them.
For the nearly quarter-century he was on top — earning Oscars, making money, and peddling influence — Weinstein was above the law. He was, so to speak, “Untouchable.”
In her powerhouse documentary of the same name, director Ursula Macfarlane turns that word against Weinstein, empowering his accusers while also holding those who’d been complicit in his crimes accountable. For months after The New York Times...
For the nearly quarter-century he was on top — earning Oscars, making money, and peddling influence — Weinstein was above the law. He was, so to speak, “Untouchable.”
In her powerhouse documentary of the same name, director Ursula Macfarlane turns that word against Weinstein, empowering his accusers while also holding those who’d been complicit in his crimes accountable. For months after The New York Times...
- 1/26/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
There’s a reason why you’ve probably never heard of Erika Rosenbaum. An attractive, intelligent, and ostensibly talented Canadian actress who stepped off the bus in Los Angeles with nothing but a dream to her name, Rosenbaum was no less prepared or deserving than any of the legendary screen idols who had inspired her to reach for the stars. Lana Turner was famously discovered at a malt shop, so why not her? Twenty years later, Rosenbaum’s most prestigious role to date is Bartocci Customer #2 in “Brooklyn.” Before that, she was Pregnant Mom in “The Smurfs 2” and Cashier in a TV movie called “Abducted: Fugitive for Love.” But while it’s true that a prayer and a pretty smile aren’t enough to guarantee a successful career in show business, there’s reason to believe that she never had a fair shot at having one.
It all goes...
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- 1/26/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The world premiere tonight at the Sundance Film Festival of the Harvey Weinstein documentary Untouchable didn’t mention the Park City gathering itself where the now disgraced producer held court for years but some drama of its own.
Initially delayed by “technical difficulties,” as one Sundance staff told the line of hundreds waiting to get in, the Marc Theatre screening itself was actually interrupted three times on Friday to the obvious irritation of attendees. On each occasion and with no explanation given, the house lights came up in full for nearly 20 seconds as the Ursula Macfarlane directed film played to groans from the packed venue.
Filled with paparazzi footage of self-described NYC “sheriff” Weinstein threatening and cajoling with cameramen over the years, the film doesn’t unveiled anything new. The fairly comprehensive effort does feature heartbreaking on-camera interviews with alleged victims such as Boardwalk Empire alum Paz de la Huerta.
Initially delayed by “technical difficulties,” as one Sundance staff told the line of hundreds waiting to get in, the Marc Theatre screening itself was actually interrupted three times on Friday to the obvious irritation of attendees. On each occasion and with no explanation given, the house lights came up in full for nearly 20 seconds as the Ursula Macfarlane directed film played to groans from the packed venue.
Filled with paparazzi footage of self-described NYC “sheriff” Weinstein threatening and cajoling with cameramen over the years, the film doesn’t unveiled anything new. The fairly comprehensive effort does feature heartbreaking on-camera interviews with alleged victims such as Boardwalk Empire alum Paz de la Huerta.
- 1/26/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Had enough of Harvey Weinstein? Not just yet.
There’s not a lot of new information in “Untouchable,” a creditable documentary about the scandal that upended Hollywood and unleashed a #MeToo movement across the world, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday night.
But for those eager to hear more about this conundrum of a man – a tastemaker who made culture-defining movies for two decades but was allegedly also a monstrous, serial rapist who damaged the lives of dozens of women – this movie is for you.
Also Read: 'The Inventor' Chronicles the Cautionary Tale of Theranos and the Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes
The Hollywood crowd in attendance was certainly riveted. It included everyone from former Ticketmaster CEO Fred Rosen to TV legend Norman Lear and his wife Lyn Lear to former MGM CEO Chris McGurk, among others who packed the Marc Theatre.
That’s no surprise,...
There’s not a lot of new information in “Untouchable,” a creditable documentary about the scandal that upended Hollywood and unleashed a #MeToo movement across the world, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday night.
But for those eager to hear more about this conundrum of a man – a tastemaker who made culture-defining movies for two decades but was allegedly also a monstrous, serial rapist who damaged the lives of dozens of women – this movie is for you.
Also Read: 'The Inventor' Chronicles the Cautionary Tale of Theranos and the Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes
The Hollywood crowd in attendance was certainly riveted. It included everyone from former Ticketmaster CEO Fred Rosen to TV legend Norman Lear and his wife Lyn Lear to former MGM CEO Chris McGurk, among others who packed the Marc Theatre.
That’s no surprise,...
- 1/26/2019
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Two hard-hitting British documentaries had their world premieres on Friday at Sundance 2019. Each showcases a Hollywood figure who used his fame and power to keep accusers of sexual assault at bay. Pop star Michael Jackson was acquitted by two juries of molesting minors before his death in 2009, while disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is facing his first criminal trial in New York on two accusations of sexual assault.
The difference between these two movies is that while the accusers of both Jackson and Weinstein described uncannily similar patterns of serial abuse over many years, one of the alleged perpetrators is dead, and the other is very much alive.
Backed by Film Four and HBO Documentary, which will air the four-hour doc in March, Dan Reed’s “Leaving Neverland” focuses narrowly on the experience of two 30-something men, Australian dancer/choreographer Wade Robson and Simi Valley native James Safechuck, who were...
The difference between these two movies is that while the accusers of both Jackson and Weinstein described uncannily similar patterns of serial abuse over many years, one of the alleged perpetrators is dead, and the other is very much alive.
Backed by Film Four and HBO Documentary, which will air the four-hour doc in March, Dan Reed’s “Leaving Neverland” focuses narrowly on the experience of two 30-something men, Australian dancer/choreographer Wade Robson and Simi Valley native James Safechuck, who were...
- 1/26/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Ever since Harvey Weinstein’s story launched the Me Too movement in late 2018, much discussion in Hollywood has revolved around the positive progress for women in the industry.
But actress Rosanna Arquette — one of the first women to publicly speak out against Weinstein — says things have not necessarily gotten better.
“I think the people that have protected him all these years, that have known that he’s done this that have covered [it] up, who’ve paid off people to shut up, shut down stories that were coming out, threatened people — and they all know who they are — they’re complicit,” she said. “At some point they have to look at themselves in the mirror and say, ‘Is this who I wanna be?’”
More than one year after telling her story to the New Yorker about rejecting Weinstein’s sexual advances in his hotel room, Arquette is speaking out again — this time,...
But actress Rosanna Arquette — one of the first women to publicly speak out against Weinstein — says things have not necessarily gotten better.
“I think the people that have protected him all these years, that have known that he’s done this that have covered [it] up, who’ve paid off people to shut up, shut down stories that were coming out, threatened people — and they all know who they are — they’re complicit,” she said. “At some point they have to look at themselves in the mirror and say, ‘Is this who I wanna be?’”
More than one year after telling her story to the New Yorker about rejecting Weinstein’s sexual advances in his hotel room, Arquette is speaking out again — this time,...
- 1/26/2019
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
Even after new allegations surfaced earlier this week against Bryan Singer — who has repeatedly denied all accusations throughout the years — news broke that the director would keep his job helming the upcoming film “Red Sonja,” despite swift backlash from the reports of sexual misconduct.
Singer called the accusations, first published in the Atlantic, “a homophobic smear piece.” The bombshell report hit the day after Singer’s film “Bohemian Rhapsody” was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture.
For the past two decades, Singer has dodged disturbing rumors and lawsuits, all while producing blockbuster hits. Like Singer, Harvey Weinstein continuously denied all allegations of sexual misconduct throughout his career, and continues to do so, even after his alleged behavior of rape and assault against numerous women galvanized the #MeToo movement and ousted him from Hollywood.
Weinstein’s story will unfold on screen in “Untouchable,” a new documentary debuting at the...
Singer called the accusations, first published in the Atlantic, “a homophobic smear piece.” The bombshell report hit the day after Singer’s film “Bohemian Rhapsody” was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture.
For the past two decades, Singer has dodged disturbing rumors and lawsuits, all while producing blockbuster hits. Like Singer, Harvey Weinstein continuously denied all allegations of sexual misconduct throughout his career, and continues to do so, even after his alleged behavior of rape and assault against numerous women galvanized the #MeToo movement and ousted him from Hollywood.
Weinstein’s story will unfold on screen in “Untouchable,” a new documentary debuting at the...
- 1/25/2019
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
It’s that time of year again, folks — we’re going to Sundance! Buyers, sellers, filmmakers and film fanatics are heading to Park City, Utah, this week to get a head start on 2019’s hottest independent films.
Like every year since Netflix became public enemy No. 1, the main question is what role the streaming services will have at this year’s festival. How active will the streaming giant be? Who will buy what? How much money will be spent? And after last year’s slow sales market, will we see a healthier landscape overall?
After the big year documentaries had in 2018, many sales agents and buyers predict that docs are here to stay. After all, this year’s festival will feature the Harvey Weinstein doc “Untouchable,” a Michael Jackson exposé “Leaving Neverland,” “Love, Antosha” and many more.
Also Read: 15 Buzziest Sundance Movies: From 'Honey Boy' to 'Leaving Neverland...
Like every year since Netflix became public enemy No. 1, the main question is what role the streaming services will have at this year’s festival. How active will the streaming giant be? Who will buy what? How much money will be spent? And after last year’s slow sales market, will we see a healthier landscape overall?
After the big year documentaries had in 2018, many sales agents and buyers predict that docs are here to stay. After all, this year’s festival will feature the Harvey Weinstein doc “Untouchable,” a Michael Jackson exposé “Leaving Neverland,” “Love, Antosha” and many more.
Also Read: 15 Buzziest Sundance Movies: From 'Honey Boy' to 'Leaving Neverland...
- 1/23/2019
- by Trey Williams and Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
It’s not entirely surprising that portrait documentaries dominate this year’s Sundance nonfiction lineup. Two of the biggest nonfiction films of 2018 – “Rbg” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” – are profile films that premiered at last year’s Sundance and later made the Oscar docu shortlist.
The success of both docs could help explain why Sundance senior programmers David Courier and Caroline Libresco were bombarded with nonfiction biopic submissions for Sundance 2019. “The trick is to find those [profile docs] that are really cinematic and that transcend this notion of traditional biopic,” says Libresco.
Both programmers didn’t seem to have a problem doing just that. Case in point, 12 of the 13 films that make up the fest’s Documentary Premieres section are portrait docs. Steve Bannon, Miles Davis and Harvey Weinstein are among the many famous and infamous figures being explored. Bio films are also prevalent in the Docu Competition and Docu World Cinema Competition categories.
The success of both docs could help explain why Sundance senior programmers David Courier and Caroline Libresco were bombarded with nonfiction biopic submissions for Sundance 2019. “The trick is to find those [profile docs] that are really cinematic and that transcend this notion of traditional biopic,” says Libresco.
Both programmers didn’t seem to have a problem doing just that. Case in point, 12 of the 13 films that make up the fest’s Documentary Premieres section are portrait docs. Steve Bannon, Miles Davis and Harvey Weinstein are among the many famous and infamous figures being explored. Bio films are also prevalent in the Docu Competition and Docu World Cinema Competition categories.
- 1/23/2019
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Will the recent box office success of documentaries impact sales at this year’s Sundance Film Festival? “Hell, yeah,” said Magnolia Pictures Eamonn Bowles, whose company released “Rbg,” one of last year’s top-grossing documentaries.
While documentaries have experienced greater theatrical market share and overall ticket sales in past years, 2018 will be remembered as the first time four independently-released nonfiction films earned more than $10 million, three of which premiered at Sundance.
Reflecting the widespread interest in uplifting real-life stories as an antidote to the dire political climate over the last 10 months, the four films reached a total box-office of nearly $60 million, while another seven documentaries surpassed $1 million. It’s this renewed appetite for entertaining nonfiction, along with more streaming companies outside of Netflix hitting a film festival that’s continually premiering the year’s top documentaries, that could propel Sundance 2019 into the record books.
Many industry insiders say bigger companies...
While documentaries have experienced greater theatrical market share and overall ticket sales in past years, 2018 will be remembered as the first time four independently-released nonfiction films earned more than $10 million, three of which premiered at Sundance.
Reflecting the widespread interest in uplifting real-life stories as an antidote to the dire political climate over the last 10 months, the four films reached a total box-office of nearly $60 million, while another seven documentaries surpassed $1 million. It’s this renewed appetite for entertaining nonfiction, along with more streaming companies outside of Netflix hitting a film festival that’s continually premiering the year’s top documentaries, that could propel Sundance 2019 into the record books.
Many industry insiders say bigger companies...
- 1/18/2019
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Indiewire
The life affirming comedy about a wealthy quadriplegic and his ex-convict assistant boasts funny, powerful performances, but can’t escape its racial subtext
There’s a joke a friend’s father used to tell, a variant of an old Mae West line. “I’ve been rich and miserable, I’ve been poor and miserable. And let me tell you: rich is better.” The Upside, a Hollywood remake of the runaway French smash Untouchable, is a movie about a depressed quadriplegic and unloved ex-con, and still manages to be an aspirational film in the Nancy Meyers vein because of friendship, the triumph of the human spirit and really luxurious Park Avenue apartments.
The penthouse Bryan Cranston’s Phil lives in is practically Wonka’s factory to Dell (Kevin Hart), who lives in public housing when his girlfriend hasn’t thrown him out. Dell is a deadbeat dad who needs to prove...
There’s a joke a friend’s father used to tell, a variant of an old Mae West line. “I’ve been rich and miserable, I’ve been poor and miserable. And let me tell you: rich is better.” The Upside, a Hollywood remake of the runaway French smash Untouchable, is a movie about a depressed quadriplegic and unloved ex-con, and still manages to be an aspirational film in the Nancy Meyers vein because of friendship, the triumph of the human spirit and really luxurious Park Avenue apartments.
The penthouse Bryan Cranston’s Phil lives in is practically Wonka’s factory to Dell (Kevin Hart), who lives in public housing when his girlfriend hasn’t thrown him out. Dell is a deadbeat dad who needs to prove...
- 9/9/2017
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
David Byrne is all smiles as Bill Ross lV and Turner Ross' Contemporary Color captures two awards Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Contemporary Color, under Dp Jarred Alterman and with the Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Devonté Hynes, Nelly Furtado, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass, St. Vincent, Money Mark, Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, providing some of the music to David Byrne's color guard extravaganza, has scored twice at this year's Tribeca Film Festival awards.
Us Narrative Competition winners
Dean, directed by Demteri Martin; Actor Dominic Rains in Ian Olds' The Fixer; Actress Mackenzie Davis in Sophia Takal's Always Shine; Cinematography - Michael Ragen for Justin Tipping's Kicks; Screenplay - Ingrid Jungermann for her Women Who Kill. The Nora Ephron Prize - Rachel Tunnard for Adult Life Skills; Albert Maysles Award - David Feige for Untouchable. Best New Narrative Director - Priscilla Anany for Children Of The Mountain.
Contemporary Color, under Dp Jarred Alterman and with the Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Devonté Hynes, Nelly Furtado, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass, St. Vincent, Money Mark, Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, providing some of the music to David Byrne's color guard extravaganza, has scored twice at this year's Tribeca Film Festival awards.
Us Narrative Competition winners
Dean, directed by Demteri Martin; Actor Dominic Rains in Ian Olds' The Fixer; Actress Mackenzie Davis in Sophia Takal's Always Shine; Cinematography - Michael Ragen for Justin Tipping's Kicks; Screenplay - Ingrid Jungermann for her Women Who Kill. The Nora Ephron Prize - Rachel Tunnard for Adult Life Skills; Albert Maysles Award - David Feige for Untouchable. Best New Narrative Director - Priscilla Anany for Children Of The Mountain.
- 4/23/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival juried awards ceremony on Thursday evening rewarded a wide roster of selections as organisers honoured separate Us and international narrative competition categories for the first time.
In the Us Narrative Feature Competition, the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature went to Dean (pictured) by Demteri Martin, who receives $20,000, sponsored by At&T, and the art award Waking Up In The Painted World by Stephen Hannock.
Best actress in a Us Narrative Feature Film went to Mackenzie Davis in Always Shine, while Dominic Rains of The Fixer earned the best actor award.
The best cinematography prize went to Michael Ragen for Kicks along with $50,000 in post-production services donated by Company 3. Screenplay honours and $2,500 sponsored by Freixenet Cava were awarded to Ingrid Jungermann for Women Who Kill.
In the International Narrative Feature Competition categories, Udi Aloni’s Junction 48 earned the best international narrative feature prize along with $20,000 sponsored by Netflix, and the...
In the Us Narrative Feature Competition, the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature went to Dean (pictured) by Demteri Martin, who receives $20,000, sponsored by At&T, and the art award Waking Up In The Painted World by Stephen Hannock.
Best actress in a Us Narrative Feature Film went to Mackenzie Davis in Always Shine, while Dominic Rains of The Fixer earned the best actor award.
The best cinematography prize went to Michael Ragen for Kicks along with $50,000 in post-production services donated by Company 3. Screenplay honours and $2,500 sponsored by Freixenet Cava were awarded to Ingrid Jungermann for Women Who Kill.
In the International Narrative Feature Competition categories, Udi Aloni’s Junction 48 earned the best international narrative feature prize along with $20,000 sponsored by Netflix, and the...
- 4/21/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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