01 May 2017
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
Poet Emily Dickinson, pigeonholed as the strange recluse since her death, takes you on a journey through the seasons of her life amid 1800s New England.
Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
Hundreds of scholars and biographers have tried to explain the life and work of Emily Dickinson, but the famously reclusive poet remains an enigma. In LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson, stumped filmmaker Jim Wolpaw uses a decidedly unorthodox approach to create a documentary about the writer whose beautiful, haunting and cryptic poetry has never quite squared with her reputation as a sensitive spinster. Wolpaw's efforts to illuminate this ethereal subject - more than 150 years after her death - yield some hilariously frustrating results.
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Leslie Dill Herself
Leslie Fleming-Mitchell Emily Candidate
Nicole Jesson An Emily Dickinson
Dan Lombardo Himself
Polly Longsworth Herself
Lisa Perkins Herself
Alan Powers Himself
Michele Proude Auditioning Emily
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