Movies Directed by Madeleine Olnek (in alphabetical order)

Wild Nights with Emily

Wild Nights with Emily

This dramatization of Emily Dickinson's life is made with the express purpose of debunking all the tired myths that the 19th century Massachusetts poet was a joyless recluse, not interested in being published, and heterosexual. Indeed, the film asserts, over and over, that Dickinson's 40-year relationship with her sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson was fully loving and sexual, all the… read more!