Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James A. Armstrong, assistant curator of collections for the Semitic Museum, says that "the museum before took very seriously its responsibility to the public at large...
...March sisters navigate the passage from girlhood to womanhood with grace, spirit and infinite appeal in Gillian Armstrong's passionate realization of the 19th century children's classic. Winona Ryder leads an entrancing cast in a family film that interrupts our pious pratings about "family values" to say something truthful and unsentimental on the subject...
PRODUCTION: Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...
...deserves to. For director Gillian Armstrong and writer Robin Swicord have fashioned an entrancing film from this distinctly unfashionable classic. They do not so much dramatize the passage of the four March sisters from girlhood to womanhood as let it unfold. Over the years the sisters must cope with a father's absence (when he's not off fighting the Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older man (Gabriel Byrne); Meg (Trini...
...Armstrong and Swicord have made the girls' mother (Susan Sarandon) something more of a feminist exemplar than she originally was; still, her social activism and her insistence that her children must claim their freedom do not seem anachronistic for a Concord woman of her time and class...