France's first big #MeToo trial: Film director found guilty of sexually assaulting 12 year-old actressA Paris court convicted filmmaker Christophe Ruggia of sexually assaulting actor Adele Haenel between ages 12 and 15. Ruggia received a two...
03 Feb, 2025, 08.31 PM IST
Gérard Depardieu’s sexual assault trial to begin in Paris; What you need to knowFrench cinema icon Gérard Depardieu faces a criminal trial in Paris for alleged sexual assaults on two women during the filming of Les Vole...
28 Oct, 2024, 12.34 PM IST
Older actresses have become hot property in Hollywood; here are the ones raking in the moolahWith several of them playing prominent roles at the Venice Film Festival, older actresses are currently enjoying great success in Hollywood...
30 Aug, 2024, 07.30 PM IST
Mad Max, Meryl and #MeToo in strong day for women at CannesStreep, who was awarded an honorary Palme d'Or at the opening ceremony, shared intimate stories from her career and spoke about the huge pr...
16 May, 2024, 11.02 AM IST
Gerard Depardieu in legal trouble: French actor set to stand trial in October for sexual assault chargesFrench actor Gerard Depardieu is set to face trial in October for alleged sexual assaults against two women during a 2021 film shoot. The P...
30 Apr, 2024, 04.15 PM IST
French literary icon Frederic Beigbeder interrogated by police over rape allegationThe interrogation of the 58-year-old writer, who lives in the French Basque country, started at 9:00 am (0800 GMT), prosecutor Rodolphe Jar...
13 Dec, 2023, 08.57 AM IST
No takers for Roman Polanski film ‘The Palace’ in FranceAfter the #MeToo movement gained global traction in 2017 following sexual abuse allegations against U.S. film producer Harvey Weinstein, a ...
02 Sep, 2023, 08.15 PM IST
Ruben Ostlund, Brie Larson & Paul Dano: The jury at Cannes Film Festival 2023The Cannes Film Festival's 2022 jury will be led by Ruben Ostlund, last year's Palme d'Or winner and director of "Triangle of Sadness". The...
16 May, 2023, 02.36 PM IST
How 'Sensitivity Readers' are dividing publishing world in two parts - censorship or evolutionAccusations of censorship began flying almost immediately from observers who fear sanitized literature could whitewash the past as well as ...
18 Mar, 2023, 04.38 PM IST
How the male gaze from behind the camera is seeping on-screen through flawed fictional charactersThe criticisms levelled at the concept of male gaze had several facets.
21 Feb, 2023, 06.28 PM IST
How one's hairstyle - and hair action - can be powerful messagingIt is certainly worth noting how keratin - fibrous proteins that are the key structural material for hair (and nails) - played a prominent ...
01 Oct, 2022, 11.42 PM IST
'Haunted': Dozens of ex-models speak out against Gerald Marie, pillar of French fashion industry, over alleged sex assaultMarie's modelling agency launched Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and more.
06 Sep, 2021, 09.14 AM IST
As #MeToo turns three, founder launches platform to fight sexual violence, hopes to reach more womenThe #MeToo movement emboldened women to recount their experiences of being sexually abused.
16 Oct, 2020, 05.50 PM IST
Kate Winslet 'regrets' over working with directors Woody Allen & Roman PolanskiThe filmmakers have been facing accusations of rape and sexual abuse for many years.
11 Sep, 2020, 04.10 PM IST
'Apropos of Nothing': Woody Allen's autobiography to finally release on April 7Allen was previously pitching his memoir to several publishers, but was rebuffed in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
04 Mar, 2020, 03.21 PM IST
Delhi courts see big names in politics, biz in 2019: P Chidambaram, Shivakumar, Vadra, Singh brothersThe year saw them dealing with several other cases involving big names like Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi; ...
29 Dec, 2019, 12.17 PM IST
Dissent: The warmest colour at Cannes this yearAt Cannes, the filmmakers who have been barred from attending it speak more of the troubled world than the movies themselves.
12 May, 2018, 11.15 PM IST