Diane Robinson

Emily Dickinson, poet. Emily Dickinson, lesbian?

Emily Dickinson, poet. Emily Dickinson, lesbian?

‘Wild Nights with Emily’ shows the poet not as a recluse but as a passionate woman devoted to the love of her life

Give a big hand to Molly Shannon, whose just-below-the-surface comedic style puts a face to Emily Dickinson not yet seen on the big screen in Wild Nights with Emily. Seasoned to a tee, she steals this show.

Better yet, give a shout out to filmmaker and director Madeleine Olnek, who has fleshed out a credible romantic-friendship narrative for Emily Dickinson and her dearest confidant and sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson, strategically married to brother Austin.

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An honest, compassionate photographic road trip

Two photographers — one young, the other old — roam the countryside of France and chronicle the country’s people, its stories, its pains and joys

C'est incroyable! Agnès Varda is either a genius with heart or a heartfelt genius - or both. Faces Places - Belgian-born Varda's collaboration with French/worldwide visual/photo-performance artist JR - is an artist's art film. It is a tribute to her commitment to the essential honoring of life itself. Although...

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