Wild Nights with Emily

Synopsis

In recent years, many of the things we thought we knew about the great American poet Emily Dickinson have been upended by a series of new biographies – and even by forensic testing of her letters and manuscripts. This new film by Madeleine Olnek (THE FOXY MERKINS) uses humor – some of it quite biting – to point to the glaring differences between Dickinson’s life and the rather pathological official biography that has entered into the popular imagination through patriarchally inflected scholarship.

Listed at AFS

Archived on the AFS site between Mon, Nov 29 2021 and Tue, Feb 10 2026, across 6 captures. These dates are inferred from Wayback Machine captures and may not be accurate.