Poets! Readers of Dylan Thomas. Film Buffs

[Katie-Ellen]

'The official world premiere of the new film version of Under Milk Wood takes place at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Saturday 20 June. There will be screenings at various festivals this summer before a full theatrical release in October. In the meantime here's the beautiful trailer to whet your appetite.'



https://vimeo.com/126140185

 

[Marc Joan]

Bloody hell. That was brilliant.

I love DT, and just cannot wait for this film. Come closer now. Thanks for posting.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Looks a teensy bit brill, dunnit.

 

[Karen Gray]

Awe man! Could you not have told me that this morning folks!!! I'd have stayed at mums and gone up the road to see what's what for you. I doubt Gordon will be up to the drive again.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Sorry (hug) I only saw it just before I posted it, Karen. I hope it was OK, a bit of a break, your outing with Gordon not feeling so great.

 

[Amber Zade]

hmmmm.....it looks really good.... I have a volume of his poems but the only one I remember is - I will not go quietly into that good night....

Really, it's just the one line I remember. I understand it's supposed to be about death. His fathers death if I remember correctly. It's a line of a poem that comes to me when I'm pissed off and PROBABLY about to do something not altogether WISE .... I didn't know he wrote a novel...can't wait to see the movie.

 

[Karen Gray]

Sorry (hug) I only saw it just before I posted it, Karen. I hope it was OK, a bit of a break, your outing with Gordon not feeling so great.

Och we go to the highland show every year. Stay at my mum's in Livingston the night before to break up the journey for him but it's gotten to the stage now that I will have to book him a mobility scooter to get round. We were only there 2 hours and then home. Still it only cost us £20 to get in which wasn't so bad. It makes only being there for a short time easier to stomach because at full price (2 adults + kids free) it would have been £50

 

[Marc Joan]

hmmmm.....it looks really good.... I have a volume of his poems but the only one I remember is - I will not go quietly into that good night....

Really, it's just the one line I remember. I understand it's supposed to be about death. His fathers death if I remember correctly. It's a line of a poem that comes to me when I'm pissed off and PROBABLY about to do something not altogether WISE .... I didn't know he wrote a novel...can't wait to see the movie.

Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Yes, it was about the death of his father.

 

[David Steele]

*goosebumps*
No doubt it'll get a ' limited release'. Got to make room for Michael Bay at the multiplex.

 

[Marc Joan]

And you can see the Welsh language version of the trailer here http://www.undermilkwoodthefilm.co.uk/english/trailer.html . Equally goose-bumpy, and thank goodness for subtitles.
I hope this film will be available on DVD, I can't see it getting to a cinema near me...

 

[James Marinero]

Apparently many worthwhile writing statements of style suggest alliteration always to be avoided. My mother often ranted about DT being a man of ill repute - so I avoided reading his work until later in life. Wonderful stuff, a pity he was a Swansea Jack (that's a local rugby slur). I'll shut up now.

 

[Marc Joan]

The lust and lilt and lather and emerald breeze and crackle of the bird-praise and body of Spring with its breasts full of rivering May-milk, means, to that lordly fish-head nibbler, nothing but another nearness to the tribes and navies of the Last Black Day who'll sear and pillage down Armageddon Hill to his double-locked rusty-shuttered tick-tock dust-scrabbled shack at the bottom of the town that has fallen head over bells in love.

And his poetry is pretty good as well.