Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle in A Quiet Passion (all images © A Quiet Passion/Hurricane Films/Courtesy of Music Box Films) A Quiet Passion begins with a young ...

Nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson might be well known now for her classic catalogue of work, but when she was alive she was elusive to most. As much as she was always a bright, ...

As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. How do you make a movie about Emily Dickinson? How do you capture the inner flame of a woman whose outward life ...

There’s something uniquely sorrowful about any great artist who doesn’t find recognition during her lifetime. Then there’s Emily Dickinson, who ranks among the greatest American poets but lived to see ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Perfection and cinema rarely intersect. While a handful of recent films have included superb performances or eye-popping effects, there have been precious few moments of take-your-breath-away ...

There is something deeply funny and also beautiful about the idea that it would take a British man in his 70s to make the definitive film about one of America’s greatest female poets. But that’s what ...

LAKE PLACID — The next installment of the Adirondack Film Society Screening Series at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts brings “A Quiet Passion,” in which Cynthia Nixon, who is probably best known ...

Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion reconstructs the personhood and artistry of the poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) to observe how the writer might have sharpened her piercing voice on the page in ...