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Enter today to win free tickets to movie “Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day” now playing across the U.S.

Posted in films, Night and Day, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , on Saturday 5 September 2026| 1 Comment »

The film Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, a playful, visually stunning adaptation of Woolf’s second novel, is now out in the U.S. for a limited run. You can enter a drawing to win a pair of tickets for this fun film with a feminist message.

Why the giveaway?

Justine Waddell, screenwriter and producer, reached out to Blogging Woolf and put us in touch with @woolfsnightandday and @quiverdistribution, who provided six free tickets for our readers, and Blogging Woolf will give them away in pairs.

How to enter the ticket giveaway

Complete the steps below and you will be entered in a drawing for two free tickets to a U.S. showing of Night and Day, which is billed as “an unromantic comedy.”

One entry per person. Submission deadline: Sept. 8, 2026.

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The drawing will be held and winners will be notified on Sept. 8, 2026.

Screenings and tickets

Night and Day will be shown in more than 100 U.S. cinemas around the country. In Ohio, where I live, it will be screened at the following theaters, beginning on the dates noted:

Cleveland/Akron
9/4 – Regal Cobblestone Square 20
9/4 Regal Medina 16
9/25 -Nightlight Cinema in Akron

Columbus
9/4 – AMC Easton Town Center 28

Dayton
9/4 – Regal Fairfield Commons 20

Cincinnati
9/4 AMC West Chester 18

Screenings will also take place in these cities:

New York Metro area, Buffalo, Hartford/New Haven, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, D.C., Norfolk, Atlanta, Augusta, Jacksonville, Orlando/Daytona Beach, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers/Naples, Tampa/St. Pete, Huntsville/Decatur, Nashville, Memphis, Louisville, Detroit, Lansing, Indianapolis, Chicago Peoria/Bloomington, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Kansas City, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Wichita/Hutchinson, Salt Lake City, Denver, Albuquerque/Santa Fe, Phoenix/Sedona, Tucson, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, Portland, Seattle, and Spokane.

To find a theatre near you, check Fandango.

Watch the trailer below for more.

Terms and conditions of the ticket giveaway, via Fandango

Terms and Conditions: Limited time offer. Fandango Promotional Code (“Code”) is good for up to $15 off (total ticket price and associated fees and charges) the purchase of one movie ticket to see Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day at participating Fandango theaters in the US. Code must be entered at checkout. Code is void, and can no longer be used, if not redeemed by 11/30/26 or when Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day is no longer in theaters, whichever comes first. Only valid for purchase of movie tickets made at Fandango.com or via the Fandango app and cannot be redeemed directly at any theater box office. If lost or stolen, cannot be replaced. No cash value, except as required by law. Void where prohibited. Not valid with any other offer. Offer valid in U.S. and D.C., excluding U.S. territories and where prohibited by law. One-time use only. Non-transferable. Not for resale; void if sold or exchanged. If cost of movie ticket with Fandango’s associated fees and charges included is more than Code’s maximum discount, then user must pay the difference. Any price difference between movie ticket purchased and Code’s maximum discount will not be refunded. Excludes multiple admission tickets. Fandango Loyalty Solutions, LLC is not a sponsor or co-sponsor of this offer. The redemption of the Code is subject to Fandango’s Terms and Policies at www.fandango.com/terms-and-policies. FANDANGO is a registered trademark of Fandango Media, LLC.

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Film adaptation of Woolf’s Night & Day opens Sept. 4 in U.S.

Posted in 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, films, Night and Day, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , , , on Tuesday 1 September 2026| 1 Comment »

It’s Sept. 1, which means we have only three days to wait until the U.S. Sept. 4 release of the film Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, a playful and visually stunning adaptation of  Woolf’s second and longest novel that emphasizes her feminist theme.

Night & Day is an unromantic comedy about a passionate astronomer Katharine Hilbery who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. – official synopsis

Screenings and tickets

A Hilbery family portrait

The film will be shown in more than 100 U.S. cinemas in these cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC, Seattle, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, Phoenix, Austin, San Diego, Miami, Detroit, Cleveland and Nashville.

You can purchase tickets at this link.

Released in the UK on June 19, after premiering in the European market early this year, Digital Spy called it a “refreshing” period drama.

The cast and the changes

Katharine Hilbery in her lab

Set in 1910, Night and Day stars Haley Bennett playing Katharine Hilbery as a would-be astronomer who wants to study at Cambridge.

Coincidentally, Haley spent her early years split between Ohio and Florida, which included attending high school in Stow, an Ohio city adjacent to mine.

Justine Waddel wrote the screenplay and produced the film. Simon Goff wrote the energetic score. Both were part of an interesting post-screening discussion at the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Sound in Istanbul in June, which was moderated by Woolf scholar Anne Fernald.

Here are some of the changes to Woolf’s novel that the film includes:

  • Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall play Mrs. and Mr. Hilbery, who are rather different from their novelistic originals,

    Katharine

  • Elyas M’Barek is “working-class editor” Ralph Denham,
  • Jack Whitehall is an effectual William Rodney, who confuses ‘astrologer’ with ‘astronomer’; and
  • singer Lily Allen is forthright suffragette Mary Datchet.

Filming locations

Filming took place last year at sites in in the north-east of England:

  • Literary and Philosophical Society (Newcastle upon Tyne)
  • Common Room of the Great North (The Mining Institute, also in Newcastle)
  • Ryhope Engines Museum (Sunderland)
  • Tanfield Railway (Gateshead/Durham) and
  • Beamish Museum (County Durham); as well as in Cologne.

Woolf’s novel and the film

Mary Datchet and Katharine

Woolf published Night and Day in 1919 and dedicated it to her artist sister Vanessa Bell, who readers — and Woolf herself — identify as Katharine Hilbery.

In writing the novel, Woolf noted in one of her letters that she was concerned with “the whole question . . . of the things one doesn’t say; what effect does that have?” (L2 400).

So does the film.

Mark Hussey, author of Virginia Woolf A To Z (1995), describes the novel as

“a comic novel of manners concerning five young people struggling with issue of love and work, engagement and marriage, in London in the early years of the twentieth century as the Edwardian generation Woolf herself belonged to sought to escape the social and moral strictures of their parents’ Victorian world. (183).

So does the film.

Fun and contemporary in tone, this refreshing film showcases an ensemble of humourous performances against the ravishing backdrop of London in 1910, advances in science and technology and crumbling Edwardian patriarchy. – official synopsis

Watch the trailer below for more.

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Mrs. Dalloway, renamed Clarissa, moves to Nigeria

Posted in films, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , , on Sunday 24 May 2026| Leave a Comment »

Clarissa, a film adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway, was featured at the Cannes film festival and is expected to be released in the U.S. later this year.

The film transposes the story from London to a modern Nigeria. The Guardian’s film reviewer gives it four stars and describes it as:

a seductively mysterious, languorous, melancholy drama with commanding performances and a great musical score […] set partly in modern-day Lagos, whose ambient streetscapes are conjured up with style, and partly in the more bucolic Abraka in southern Nigeria, 30 years in the past.

Starring Sophie Okonedo as an older Clarissa and David Oyelowo as an older Peter, the film premiered in Cannes earlier this month. Nigerian film-making brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri directed the film.

 

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Today’s online world calls for videos on Virginia Woolf

Posted in coronavirus, films, Mrs. Dalloway, You Tube, tagged , , , , on Thursday 27 August 2020| Leave a Comment »

Teaching Virginia Woolf online this fall? If so, these YouTube videos focused on her life and her work may help. Take a look.

Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway

This is a nearly one-hour 1987 dramatized documentary on the novel, with an introduction by Woolf biographer Hermione Lee.

The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf

This is an approximately 25-minute triptych featuring (among others) Hermione Lee, Eileen Atkins, Nigel Nicolson and Frances Spalding.



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The 1920 German film that inspired Virginia Woolf

Posted in films, tagged , , , , on Wednesday 26 February 2020| Leave a Comment »

It’s the 100th anniversary of the 1920 German expressionist film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” and Virginia Woolf is mentioned in the headline of the story on The Conversation website that celebrates that fact.

Virginia Woolf screensaver on an old keyboard-style Kindle

Woolf, the article says, “marvelled at how the set design mirrored the emotions felt by the characters and the audience: ‘it seemed as if thought could be conveyed by shape more effectively than words.'”

“The Cinema”

Woolf shared her thoughts in “The Cinema,” an article published in the July 3, 1926, issue of The Nation and Athenaeum. In it, she articulates her fascination with and fear of this newly evolving art form that at the time was strictly a black-and-white, silent medium that she believed was both parasitic and ripe with potential.

It is an art form that starts with the eyes, but the eyes are soon forced to engage the brain, she argues.

We behold them as they are when we are not there. We see life as it is when we have no part in it. As we gaze we seem to be removed from the pettiness of actual existence. The horse will not knock us down. The king will not grasp our hands. The wave will not wet our feet. … Further, all this happened ten years ago, we are told. We are beholding a world which has gone beneath the waves. – Virginia Woolf, “The Cinema”

 

 

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