Wild Nights with Emily

I think Emily Dickinson’s a lesbian

🌻 lindsay 🌻

There has been a bit of backlash recently against the perceived tendency of queer films to be period dramas. While this could not be further from reality--and is a result of a combination of both a recent trend and the burying of queer film that occurs under capitalism--the…

Sally Jane Black

So funny and SO gay. We haven’t had a lesbian comedy this good since But I’m a Cheerleader. Also it’s surprisingly tender, smart, revealing, and sweet.

Jennifer

Smh @ all y’all looking down through your monocles at the low budget this movie had to work with. As if lesbian films - especially independent ones, especially ones actually made by lesbians! - are so easy to get funding for. For every Carol that comes along, there’s…

friedgreengibbs

I spent the summer researching Emily Dickinson so I could write a screenplay inspired by her poetry and life. I was hesitant to watch this film, because I wanted to rely on the history and wanted to choose the Dickinson's poems I liked without being influenced by outside…

Allison M. 🌱

I am a huge lesbian and I enjoyed this - thank you for your time reading this review.

Marion Cotillard's forehead mole

The intimacy with which Olnek presents Sue washing Emily's dead body is better than most romance films and I'm kind of a mess about this movie.

Juan

Take away the explanatory text at the beginning and the end, smooth out some of the jumpier moments of editing, and ease up on the uncharacteristic hamfistedness of the Thomas Wentworth Higginson scene, and you’ve got something close to a masterpiece. I don’t care to lead…

Herb Gallow

It's hard to accept a stage-y, visually indifferent portrait of Emily Dickinson after the incredible vibrancy of Davies' A Quiet Passion, which muted my reaction to what ultimately feels like a filmed play. BUT! The film's upending of the myth that Emily Dickinson was an…

Scott Tobias