#Madeleine Olnek

[yourdailyqueer]

Madeleine Olnek

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1965   

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Producer, director, screenwriter, playwright

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Madeleine Olnek

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90 Movies in 90 Days: Wild Nights With Emily (2019)

I’m kicking off 2023 by trying to watch and review one movie every day for the first 90 days, all of which will be 90 minutes or less. Title: Wild Nights With Emily Release Date: April 12, 2019 Director: Madeleine Olnek Production Company:P2 Films | UnLTD Productions | Salem Street Entertainment | Embrem Entertainment Summary/Review: Debunking the myths of Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights with Emily…

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Wild Nights with Emily dir. Madeleine Olnek (2018)

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Sweet Sue, 

there is no first, or last, in Forever - 

It is Centre, there all the time -

Wild Nights With Emily (2018) dir. Madeleine Olnek

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Poet's Delight

Poet’s Delight

Wild Nights with Emily (2018) by Madeleine Olnek I’m currently a little obsessed with Emily Dickinson. I blame Hailee Steinfeld and the people behind the Apple TV+ show but also her fabulous writing. I’ve challenged myself to read her poems this year, ten each day, in the order they appear in The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson – well, I’ve read 50 so far. The real…

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This movie is about Emily Dickinson having a passionate lifelong affair with her brother’s wife.

In Wild Nights with Emily (2018), Molly Shannon plays Emily Dickinson as a poet ahead of her time. People don’t understand her writing, and they’re even farther from understanding her love of women. She’s not a recluse, she’s actually quite the partier. It’s just that there’s only one person who really gets her. 

This is not a stuffy period piece, it’s a romantic-comedy. It’s hilarious and a little bit steamy. It’s also about how exactly history erased Dickinson’s queerness and remembered her as a recluse. This film reclaims a queer historical figure in a way that honors her and shows all the gay joy she must have experienced.

Excellent film, highly recommended for all your comedic lesbian historical needs.

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Wild Nights with Emily | 2018 | Madeleine Olnek

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PRIDE MONTH: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same - Experimental 90s Theatre 

This week brings us the film debut of Madeline Olnek, who longtime listeners might’ve heard us praising before for WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY. While this is definitely a 90s time capsule even if it was filmed in 2011, it’s also adorable to the nth degree. Not to mention how lovely it is to see a fat woman cast as the romantic lead.

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of queerphobia, transphobia, misogyny

The Okra Project

LGBTQ Freedom Fund

That BS Passive-Aggressive NYT Obituary of Activist Larry Kramer

Interview with Holly Hughes

Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Cafe Theater

1:00 Lesbian Activist Theatre: The WOW Café 6:00 Stage to Screen Growing Pains 11:00 The Cheesecake Symbolizes Despair 17:00 Accidental Autistic-Coded Love Story 23:00 Queer Commentary Corner 34:00 Race to the Spaceship 40:00 Preserving Olnek’s Work

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Happy Pride Month // set 18 (x)

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Lots of films directed by women in theaters/streaming this week:

Madeleine Olnek's WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY

Nia DaCosta's LITTLE WOODS

Wanuri Kahiu's RAFIKI

Julia Hart's FAST COLOR

Laura Steinel's FAMILY

Pamela B. Green's BE NATURAL

Beyoncé's HOMECOMING 

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's SOMEONE GREAT 

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Wild Nights with Emily FB page:

To people who enjoyed "Wild Nights With Emily," The filmmaker Madeleine Olnek is making her other film, the Sundance comedy and Independent Spirit award nominee "The Foxy Merkins" -- free to watch through the next couple of weeks of quarantine, for those who need some comedy.

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(from Omissions Are Not Accidents: Erasures & Cancellations in Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts by Martha Nell Smith)

In some instances the acts are almost ludicrous and provoke laughter. An April 1853 letter from Emily to her brother Austin, inked on exquisite gilt stationery while he was in law school in Cambridge (A 601; L116), tells him

“I dont love to read your letters all out loud to father - it would be like opening the kitchen door when we get home from meeting Sunday, and are sitting down by the stove saying just what we're a mind to, and having father hear. I dont know why it is, but it gives me a dreadful feeling, and I skipped about the wild flowers, and one or two little things I loved the best, for I could'nt read them loud to anybody several words erased.”

Then in the sentences immediately following, "er" is removed and overwritten with "im" and the "s" is erased from the feminine pronoun "she" to masculinize agency:

“I shant see him this morning, because [s]he has to bake saturday, but [s]he'll come this afternoon, and we shall read your letter together, and talk of how soon you'll be here seven lines erased.”

The removals are of Susan's name and commentary about her. What we have been able to read shows that the erasures are at least in part discourses of desire. And, enacting absence creates a presence unknown to the writer Emily Dickinson but long affixed to the author "Emily Dickinson." The revision imposed by another on "Emily Dickinson" simultaneously removes her name as addressee and gives Susan a beard, leaving ample evidence of its stridently imposed transvestism. The illusion of a man haunts this letter just as a phantom man haunts the legacy of Emily Dickinson.

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Wild Nights with Emily dir. Madeleine Olnek (2018)

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I've gone on record saying it's immoral to make a drama if you can make a comedy.

Madeleine Olnek