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...less justified of an approach to filmmaking? Sure, we know what's going to happen, 15 minutes into the movie and this fact, coupled with our optimistic belief that happy endings still exist, leaves us confident that Alvin Straight will be reunited with his brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton), whether incarnate or in spirit. But if the film only promised us the potential for factual knowledge, could we sit through it? Not to be a complete moral relativist, but I wonder who'd really care what happened to Alvin? Alvin Straight traveled from Iowa to Wisconsin in 1994. I didn...
...film] is focused initially on where [Stanton and Anthony] came from, their psychology and their friendship, but also on the political movement they founded," Burns said in an interview...
...producer Paul Barnes was reading a biography of Stanton and would regale us daily with her stories," he said. "I felt humiliated that I didn't know about the two most important women in American history...
suffragist art, documents, posters and other memorabilia were displayed along with Anthony's and Stanton's original manuscripts...
Susan W. Ware, editor of Notable AmericanWomen, a journal produced at Schlesinger Library, said Burns' film helps make Stanton and Anthony seem more real...