I absolutely loved Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights with Emily, starring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson, Susan Zeigler as the famous (and famously erased) “Sue” of Dickinson’s poems, and Amy Seimetz (whom I just met last fall when we were both jurors at Indie Memphis) as Mabel Todd, Dickinson’s first publisher and editor, and the crafter of the posthumous myth of Emily as a “spinster-recluse”. It’s fantastic. Very very funny but also thought-provoking, with a gut punch of a final scene (and final sound effect). I reviewed Wild Nights with Emily for Rogerebert.com.
Hi, Sheila… One of my favorite books is My Life A Loaded Gun, a feminist analysis of the work of Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich. I think you’d like it… April
PS – Are you at Ebertfest this year?
April – hey! No, not this year. It’s my first year not going and I’m suffering from withdrawal. :)
Wild Nights with Emily is really fun and really thought-provoking. I highly recommend it!
Be sure to watch the after-show conversation with Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly. They were soooo funny…