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Apr 10, 2019 · There are so many reasons to adore “Wild Nights With Emily,” but the top may be Olnek’s refusal to adhere to the accepted history. It is as though our culture cannot imagine that queer ...
Apr 11, 2019 · ‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Rated: PG-13, for sexual content Running time: 1 hour, 24 minutes Playing: Starts April 12, The Landmark, West L.A. calendar@latimes.com @LATimesMovies
"Wild Nights with Emily" is a biopic of the poet Emily Dickinson, based around what might be called a revisionist account of her life. The film starts from the assumption that traditional literary scholarship has tended to portray Dickinson, wrongly, as a shy, reclusive, virginal spinster whose poems were inspired by unrequited love for men.
Sharp, nimble, and with a wonderful lead in Molly Shannon, Wild Nights with Emily raucously disinherits the dusty traditions of the biopic. While seeking publication of her poems, Emily Dickinson finds herself facing male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously.
Wild Nights with Emily (2018) Madeleine Olnek's witty romance about 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson and her passionate relationship with sister-in-law and muse Susan No episode ...
Wild Nights with Emily reclaims Emily Dickinson from the hands that erased her story and her identity, that turned her into a false myth. And it does so with humour and heart. There are and will be inevitable comparisons with Terrence Davies’ A Quiet Passion. But that’s unfair to both films; they both have two very different approaches and ...
Apr 14, 2019 · Wild Nights with Emily, 2019. Written and Directed by Madeleine Olnek. Starring Molly Shannon, Amy Seimetz, Susan Ziegler, Brett Gelman, Jackie Monahan, Kevin Seal, Dana Melanie, Sasha Frolova ...
