Meryl Streep Intros 'Suffragette' at Telluride

Opening night at Telluride featured dueling world premieres as A24's "Room" and Focus Features' "Suffragette" were programmed opposite each other. Meryl Streep and Rooney Mara ("Carol") both attended the first showings of documentary "He Named Me Malala" (review here) and "Suffragette," in which Streep delivers a brief but potent cameo as wealthy Emmeline Parkhurst, who led scores of turn-of-the-century British women to fight for the right to vote. "We have been ridiculed and ignored," Parkhurst cries. "Deeds and sacrifice must be the order of the day."  Carey Mulligan carries this movie as ably as she did "Far...

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