Maybe I should open my mind then, Jill. It was the actor John Flaus who put
me off it. He is a big Dickinson fan and fumed against the 2017 film at a
poetry reading in Woodend.
Bill
On Sun, 5 May 2019 at 12:21 pm, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I saw A Quiet Passion a little while ago and was rather impressed - and
> moved by it, in a good way. I felt it was the opposite of soap opera, that
> it was restrained, and reviews I read remarked on its 'slowness', which is
> a plus or minus depending on one's druthers. I had just one or two small
> reservations about the time frame of events but that's a common issue in
> biopics anyway.
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
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> On 5 May 2019, 8:07 am, at 8:07 am, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >Barry, I have heard nothing but bad things about this film, I’m afraid,
> >if
> >it’s the one made about 2-3 years ago. I watched the trailer here and
> >it
> >seemed melodramatic, soap-operatic really. Lots of swooning smooching.
> >I
> >know there was passion between Susan and Emily but I’m happy to know
> >that
> >and to run with reading accounts like Lyndall Gordon’s Lives like
> >loaded
> >guns.
> >
> >Maybe the film is better than this promo suggests but I’d need to be
> >persuaded.
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >On Sun, 5 May 2019 at 1:02 am, Barry Alpert <
> >[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Less than 3 years ago, the major British director Terence Davies' A
> >QUIET
> >> PASSION featuring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson appeared. I'd
> >been
> >> following his films since they began to surface & he may be my
> >favorite
> >> English director. While I can still link to a "filmmaker's letter"
> >from
> >> writer/director Madeleine Olnek about her WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, I
> >will:
> >>
> >>
> >https://www.landmarktheatres.com/wild-nights-with-emily-filmmaker-letter
> >>
> >> And now that I've easily located the official trailers for both
> >films,
> >> here they are:
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMa2n5_huU
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3SyPbUTEeU
> >>
> >>
> >> Barry
> >>
> >>
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