REVIEWS
Chantilly Bridge
“Chantilly Bridge is a Female Big Chill Meets Boyhood, A Sensitive Portrait of the Passing of Time with Ally Sheedy, Lindsay Crouse, Jill Eikenberry.” - Showbiz411 / Roger Friedman, review by Regina Weinrich
“Chantilly Bridge is a must-watch film that celebrates the beauty of female friendship and empowers women to support and uplift one another. The film deals with important issues impacting women and portrays their struggles and achievements in a realistic and heartwarming manner. With a talented ensemble cast and exceptional direction by Linda Yellen, this movie is a touching reminder of the importance of female relationships and the impact they can have on our lives.” - Punch Drunk Critics, Review by Jen Pourreza
“Step aside 80 for Brady. It’s a good time to wax existential with other women of a certain age. In this case, it’s the modern women — not so much embracing the aging process but determined to thrive no matter what their age. Directed by Yellen, an Emmy winner who knows how to draw out raw emotion from her actors.”
- Movieweb.com, Review by Greg Archer
“A genuine love letter to female friendship. And, at a time when society tries to pit women against each other, that’s something worth celebrating.” - Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Review by Lois Alter Mark
“Francis Ford Coppola said “the very earliest people who made films were magicians”. I’d have to disagree with Mr. Coppola, there are still among us cinema magicians and I’m referring right now to Linda Yellen. Yellen directs, produces, and writes magical movies. Chantilly Bridge is Linda’s aching, intimate sequel to her beloved Chantilly Lace —now, old friendships are re-examined, burnished, chilled and warmed again by time and trouble.” - New York Social Diary, Review by Denis Ferrara
Fluidity
“A remarkable and groundbreaking film about the second sexual revolution. Fluidity exemplifies Linda's consummate gift — being able to empathize with her characters and their situations, no matter how different they are from her own life.”- City Watch
“This is among the best films about millennials sorting out their lives, looking to connect, struggling for intimacy in the stripped-bare landscape of unforgiving social media. Even in our fast-moving times, Linda Yellen’s Fluidity will look of the moment, urgent and timely, years from now.” - New York Social Diary
PLAYING FOR TIME
“Playing for Time is everything we could want, an experience that makes the unforgivable also unforgettable.” Howard Rosenberg, LA Times
“An impeccably written, acted, photographed and directed landmark… it deserves to be heralded as the vanguard of a new era of adult, literary drama… three of television’s finest hours ever.” - Arthur Unger, Christian Science
THE SIMIAN LINE
“Yellen, a distinguished TV veteran, has been moving into theatrical features with increasing impressiveness. The Simian Line reveals her mastery of artifice and theatricality in the service of eliciting genuine emotion and insight into human nature.” - LA Times
“Director Linda Yellen encouraged her cast to improvise bits of their dialogue… that technique enables cast members to inhabit their characters with remarkable thoroughness… there are beautifully rendered and memorable moments throughout.” - Variety
THE LAST FILM FESTIVAL
“Dennis Hopper’s last movie, The Last Film Festival, is terrific. Dennis Hopper… Changed the face of independent filmmaking for generations to come with his groundbreaking and wildly successful film, Easy Rider, and gave fearless performances. He was always convincing and unforgettable. Jackie Bisset is one of our best actresses ever. It’s well worth it!” - Roger Friedman, Showbiz411
“Hugely amusing indie. This is a farce, taken to a surreal level, both broad and intimate. Without a doubt the movie belongs to its two most famous actors, Hopper and Bisset. Hopper rarely played comedy… but there’s something else in his performance, a humor and self-awareness that is both endearing and very attractive. As for Jackie, she revamps herself here as an Italian bombshell. She is a scream. In some ways it comes off like a smaller version of Robert Altman’s acclaimed The Player.” - Liz Smith
NORTHERN LIGHTS
“Director Yellen and writers Hoffman and Kane have turned Hoffman’s play into a whimsical exploration of a self-contained woman, a divorced man, and a winning boy. Yacoe’s camerawork is smart and surefire, and Northrop’s editing helps set Yellen’s smart pace.” - Daily Variety
“First and foremost of Northern Lights’ delights is Keaton’s over-the-top attitude. Linda Yellen’s direction nicely juggles the whimsical and the sentimental with broad humor.” - Hollywood Reporter
MAYFLOWER: THE PILGRIMS’ ADVENTURE
“An exhilerating, inspiring, informative and beautifully produced TV-movie… all earlier Hollywood versions pale before the literacy of this once.” - TV Guide
“Superior acting and production… an aura of quality seldom seen in made for television films.” - NY Times
HARDHAT & LEGS
“Named one of the ten best TV movies ever made!” - Washington Post
“A really good movie, funny and romantic and sentimental, the kind of movie they made 25 years ago… The film beats with the music of Manhattan.” - LA Times
LOOKING UP
“As the first feature film production effort of Linda Yellen and Karen Rosenberg, Looking Up bears a stamp of maturity normally associated with a pair of 27 year olds. Looking Up projects its sincerity with heartfelt emotion and a seemingly autobiographical remembrance of things present and past… Marilyn Chris is a truly impressive and poignant figure as the undaunted Rose.” - NY Times
“…represents a fine directorial debut for young Linda Yellen. Looking Up marks a return to slice-of-life moviemaking and is a welcome change from the shoot-em-up unreal films we’ve been seeing lately. It’s good, for a change, to see a picture that deals with real people and real problems. Maybe things are indeed looking up.” - Family Circle
