(Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Weinstein has repeatedly denied “any allegations of nonconsensual sex.”) But Mr. Cooper also said that the fallen mogul’s impact on Sundance had long been overstated. “Nobody on the ground here ever gave him a crown,” Mr. Cooper said. (Mr. Cooper, Sundance’s director, called it “fun, to the point of being sassy” as he introduced it. Mr. Cooper drew a connection between filmmakers wrestling with race and the #OscarsSoWhite outcry in 2015 and 2016. “It’s a really plentiful year for women,” Mr. Groth said, “which makes us enormously excited.”All the better to vanquish memories of Mr. Weinstein.

Source: New York Times January 21, 2018 20:53 UTC