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Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, who served as a film critic for The New York Times from 1977 to 1999, serving as chief critic for the last six years, and then a literary critic from 2000 to 2015. In 2000, Maslin helped found the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. She is president of its board ...
Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013.
Film critic Richard Roeper gave the film a positive review, writing, "Iron Jawed Angels is an important history lesson told in a fresh, and blazing fashion." [ 8 ] Scott Faundas of Variety gave the film a negative review, writing, " HBO 's starry suffragette drama, Iron Jawed Angels , latches on to a worthy historical subject and then hopes ...
Tyler Perry has dedicated the past quarter-century of his career to giving voice to Black women on stage and screen. With “The Six Triple Eight,” the self-made mogul — who leveraged his ...
Steve York: Documentary: Otpor! 2003 To Kill a King: Mike Barker: Historical drama: Revolution, England: 2004 In My Country: John Boorman: Historical drama: Anti-Apartheid Movement: 2005 V for Vendetta: James McTeigue: Political action film: Revolution: 2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Ken Loach: Historical drama: Irish War of Independence ...
A New York Times article stated that only 15% of the top films in 2013 had women for a lead acting role. [7] The author of the study noted that, "The percentage of female speaking roles has not increased much since the 1940s, when they hovered around 25 percent to 28 percent."
Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US. US News. Susan Milligan. January 21, 2017 at 1:00 AM ... 1848 – At Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men sign the Declaration of Sentiments, ...
Actress Fan Bourke opened The Princess, a 500-seat "votes for women" movie theatre, in New Rochelle, New York in late 1915. [ 11 ] In the 21st century, PBS American Experience's 2023 documentary The Vote was released to commemorate the campaign waged by American women for the right to vote and the passage of the 19th Amendment .