Suffragette Directed by Sarah Gavron Written by Abi Morgan United Kingdom, 2015 Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane) directs the story of the British suffragette movement from the ground up. Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) is a poor, working-class woman who has labored all her life for men at work and home. She toils for the survival of …
Every time it feels like Hollywood has decided to remake a property that couldn’t be more sacred, they one up the ante. Michael Bay has been prepping a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense/horror classic The Birds, and Variety reports that the project has now found its director: Dutch filmmaker Diederik Van Rooijen. Van Rooijen has …
The Iron Lady Written by Abi Morgan Directed by Phyllida Lloyd UK/France, 2011 Very early on in The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher’s father, in a flashback sequence, tells her to “never run with the crowd” and to go her own way. These words are typical of the “inspirational” biopic formula, and Phyllida Lloyd’s film embodies …
The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd Written by Abi Morgan UK / France, 2012 Margaret Thatcher was one of the most reviled figures in British political history. A globally recognized woman, she was Britain’s first and only (to date) female prime minister and had the longest term of office of any UK politician in …