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- 2016
- Not Rated
- Arc Entertainment
- 1 h 54 m
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Arc Entertainment
- 1 h 54 m
Summary The first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou.
Directed By: Rita Coburn, Bob Hercules
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Arc Entertainment
- 1 h 54 m
- 2016
- Not Rated
- Arc Entertainment
- 1 h 54 m
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
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Summary The first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou.
Directed By: Rita Coburn, Bob Hercules
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise covers so much ground that it’s usually easy to forgive the filmmakers for not digging deeper. This is a documentary interested in breadth rather than depth, and on those terms it succeeds.
If this adulatory “American Masters” production elides certain chapters of Angelou’s biography, it nonetheless offers ample evidence of her commanding intensity and of her importance as an unwavering voice of the black experience.
Angelou’s life and work was rich, significant, influential and hugely varied, and yet “And Still I Rise” is hobbled by unimaginative delivery and direction. In short, it’s limited, and Angelou’s own history proves that limitations must be fought against at every turn.
At least with its wide scope, Maya Angelou and Still I Rise shows that her time on Earth was about more than being an author, poet, civil rights activist, a mother, a dancer, a singer, a film director, producer, journalist and much more. Her life was poetry itself.
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Release Date Oct 14, 2016
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website
http://mayaangeloufilm.com/
Awards
Milwaukee Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Mill Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Black Film Festival Montreal
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
