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Wild Nights With Emily - Feature Film
With a Rebel Yell, Molly Shannon Claims Collusion - The New York Times
How Molly Shannon Brought Emily Dickinson Out of the Closet as a ‘Lesbian Feminist Hero’ - Variety
Molly Shannon Talks Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights, Ambition and Becoming a Role Model - Parade
‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Review: Emily Dickinson as Romantic Comedy Heroine - The New York Times
‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Understands Queer Desire…one of several movies this year that get intimacy between women right. - Opinion Page; The New York Times
Behind the New, Gloriously Queer Emily Dickinson Movie - Vulture
‘Wild Nights with Emily’ Film Review: Molly Shannon Brilliantly Reimagines Emily Dickinson - The Wrap
Review: Wild Nights with Emily Playfully and Necessarily Reimagines Dickinson’s Story - Slant Magazine
Indie Focus: Going big with 'Little' - Los Angeles Times
Wild Nights with Emily: A funny, sexy look at a great literary injustice - SF Weekly
‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Review: Molly Shannon Is Emily Dickinson in the Best Lesbian Comedy in Years - IndieWire
‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Might Be The Best Lesbian Comedy Ever -Autostraddle
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The Foxy Merkins - Feature Film
10 Great LGBT Films From This Year's Sundance Film Festival - IndieWIRE
Sundance Next Weekend Review: The Foxy Merkins “a reminder of how much fun Sundance movies can be”- CraveOnline
The Foxy Merkins “This engagingly left-field lesbian comedy is a self-aware low-budget blend of more posturing male hustler films such as Midnight Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, but made with a real sense of warmth and indie humour… a gentle charmer” - Screen Daily
On The 6th BAMcinemaFest - ARTFORUM
Midnight Cowgirls “odd, poignant, both profane and strangely innocent, and above all, shockingly funny” - The Huffington Post
American Gigola: Olnek’s Hilarious Sophomore Film Reinvents the Masculine Realm of Hustler Bonding - IONCINEMA
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Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same - Feature Film
SUNDANCE REVIEW: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same “A hilarious date movie for couples of all orientations.” - The Hollywood Reporter
Lesbian Alien Looks For Love Light Years Away - The New York Times
Codependent Lesbian Alien Seeks Same — A Hammer to Nail Review - Filmmaker Magazine
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same “Olnek’s sensibility is singular, and the work of the cast — notably the sweetfaced Haas and the hilariously robotic Ziegler — make for a movie that seeks, and earns, affection” - Variety
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same “Madeleine Olnek gets laughs and style out of interplanetary love” - Screen Daily
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same “Her deadpan style and sympathy with life’s losers and outsiders brings to mind Jim Jarmusch’s landmark indie film ‘Stranger in Paradise.’ ‘Space Aliens’ is not only a worthy successor to that film, but it plants Olnek in the very best tradition of Downtown Manhattan indie filmmaking” - EDGE Media Network
The 14 Most Heterophobic Movies of All Time - Autostraddle
What Critics Have Said
Countertransference - A Short Film
"Unforgettable...a comedic goldmine." Filmmaker Magazine
"Madeleine Olnekʼs latest short made me laugh by the fifteen second mark and kept getting funnier from there." - Hammer to Nail.
“Twisted laughs” - BlogLive - Sundance Film Festival.
"[Countertransference] is a funny, psychologically loaded film that's well crafted and skillfully acted." - The Bottom Line Magazine, Palm Springs, CA
"Iʼve yet to see Madeleine Olnekʼs first Sundance kissed short Hold Up, but if itʼs even a shadow of the comedy Countertransference is, then no explanations are necessary as to why Olnek is racking up festival awards and screening selections like theyʼre going out of style." - Short of the Week.com
“A really unusual little gem of a film. It was brilliant ...nicely shot and nicely written--very, very nicely written. I thoroughly enjoyed “Countertransference.” - Iris TV review, Wales, UK
"The funniest short film made in the year 2008." - Jenni Olson, Planet Out
Hold Up - A Short Film