Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson (2002)
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.
Director: Jim Wolpaw
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Billy Collins as Himself |
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Leslie Dill as Herself |
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Leslie Fleming-Mitchell as Emily Candidate |
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Julie Harris as Herself |
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Nicole Jesson as An Emily Dickinson |
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Dan Lombardo as Himself |
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Polly Longsworth as Herself |
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Lisa Perkins as Herself |
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Alan Powers as Himself |
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Michele Proude as Auditioning Emily |
| Production | Steve Gentile | Producer |
| Production | Lisa Perkins | Associate Producer |
| Production | Jim Wolpaw | Producer |
| Editing | Steve Gentile | Editor |
| Camera | Claire Folger | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Klem Klimek | Musician |
| Sound | Sarah McGurkin | Musician |
| Sound | Mark Ruter | Musician |
| Sound | Jonathan Stark | Musician |
| Sound | Matt Stark | Musician |
| Directing | Jim Wolpaw | Director |