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DIRECTOR LINDA YELLEN DISCUSSES CHANTILLY BRIDGE
On April 1, after the DGA membership screening in New York, Yellen discussed the making of Chantilly Bridge during a Q&A moderated by Director Mary Harron (Dalíland).
SXSW 2022 WOMEN DIRECTORS: LINDA YELLEN
W&H: Describe the film for us in your own words.
LY: “Chantilly Bridge” reunites seven women, childhood friends who come together to help one of their own and rediscover the rare bond that exists among those who knew you when and are there for you now. “Chantilly Bridge” has been called a “masterclass” for its honest portrayal of women in the winter of their lives dealing with the complexities of health, sexuality, and career with bravery, grace, and a great deal of humor.
LINDA YELLEN TURNED HER PASSION INTO A CAREER AS A FILMMAKER
When Linda Yellen is involved in a film, expect the unexpected. For there is no way to categorize a film maker who as either writer, director or producer has given us the concentration-camp saga "Playing for Time," "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana," the political-repression drama "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number" and "Liberace: Behind the Music.
EXCLUSIVE: CHANTILLY BRIDGE CAST AND DIRECTOR ON THEIR MOVING SEQUEL TO A TIMELESS CLASSIC
Step aside 80 for Brady. It’s a good time to wax existential with other women of a certain age. Whether that was the intention of director Linda Yellen, who reunites the cast of Chantilly Lace decades later for another deep dive — this time in Chantilly Bridge — it may not matter. The sequel to the popular 1993 made-for-TV film is one of those rare and welcome cinematic experiences that takes its time to present an intimate portrait of its characters and the issues they face.
CITYWATCH: PROLIFIC FILMMAKER LINDA YELLEN
During her career as producer, writer, and director Linda Yellen has made beautifully fashioned films driven by exquisitely crafted scripts that develop both story and characters into what in modern movies has become an all too rare movie going experience, a film that allows the audience to forget they are in a theater watching a movie.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF ‘THE LAST MOVIE FESTIVAL’
Linda Yellen, director of Dennis Hopper’s final movie, The Last Movie Festival, recalls working with him, his love of photography, and his wish that he’d gotten relationships right.
THE GILES FILES PODCAST: LINDA YELLEN, WORKING WITHOUT A SCRIPT
From her groundbreaking film "CHANTILLY LACE" to "THE LAST FILM FESTIVAL" and the controversial "PLAYING FOR TIME," Yellen walks us through her brilliant career, as Director, Writer and Producer. Adventures in filmmaking from a master.
NEWSWEEK: PLAYING FOR TIME COVER
The entire production is in fact one of the rare occasions when the TV Medium earned great honor in the field of drama. Arthur Miller’s script, based on Fania Fénelon’s harrowing memoir of her sojourn in Auschwitz, is his best achievement in years.
LINDA YELLEN: DOING IT HER WAY
In 1980, when she, herself a Jew, refused to yield to the Jewish pressure groups protesting her casting of Vanessa Redgrave in Playing for Time, producer Linda Yellen became transformed into a favorite Hollywood prototype: the maiden with the iron will.