Under Milk Woodn is an imaginative, cinematic rendering of Dylan Thomas's famous "play for ... more
voices," typically read on stage by a handful of actors expressing the dialogue of more than 50 characters living in a small, Welsh fishing village. Filmmaker An...
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Legendary Hollywood icons Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole star in this ... more
screen adaptation of Dylan Thomas's classic play.A celebration of life and death, the film follows the people and events in a small Welsh harbour village, on one ...
Hollywood icons Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole star in the screen ... more
adaptation of Dylan Thomas's classic play. A celebration of life and death the film follows the people and events in a small Welsh harbour village from one spring t...
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Richard Burton narrates this superb animation as we visit the inhabitants of Llareggub ... more
while they sleep. There is Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly bossing her two dead husbands; Captain Cat reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs. Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; Polly Garter pining her dead lover. Later, the town wakes and we see them go about their daily business, aware of how their feelings affect whatever they do.
A 'play for voices' "Under Milk Wood" is a delightful modern pastoral set in an imagined ... more
seaside town. The 'dismays and rainbows' of its inhabitants are played out within the cycle of one day. The larger-than-life characters - Captain Cat Mog Edwards and Miss Price to name but a handful - are extraordinary creations to be enjoyed in all their spontaneous eccentricity!
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In 1951 two years before his death Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio ... more
play 'an impression for voices an entertainment out of the darkness of the town I live in and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods so that at many levels...you come to know the town as an inhabitant of it'. The work was UNDER MILK WOOD - an orchestration of voices sights and sounds that conjure up the dreams and waking hours of an imagined Welsh seaside village within the cycle of one day. Includes an introduction notes selected criticism and chronology of Thomas's life and times.
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Advantages: Fantastic words that are wonderful read or listened to. Disadvantages: None for me
While clearing out some stuff I came across an old audio cassette of Dylan Thomas's 'UnderMilkWood' from when I did my English A Level. Sadly the cassettes are no use to me anymore, cassettes being a victim of the technology revolution. But just seeing the cassettes sent me out to get a new copy of the book, I just had to read it again. Sadly no hypnotic Welsh voice of Richard Burton, but still the wonderful words sounded Welsh in my brain as I read the words in front of me. As I read about 'the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea', I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck tingling - God I love that book!!
For those of you who do not know the book, it is actually a 'play for radio' written in in 1953 by the wonderful Dylan Thomas. It actually started out with the title 'Quite Early One Morning ...
Advantages: An unusual but highly interesting play for radio Disadvantages: None
for the South Wales Evening Post.
It was at some point during 1933 that his poetry was gaining recognition but by then Dylan had moved to London and was fast gaining a reputation as being a drunkard.
Like many accomplished poets Dylan based his work on what he `knew` and that included his beloved Wales, childhood, lost innocence, life and death and a huge helping of nostalgia.
Dylan wrote his most famous radio play `UnderMilkWood` over a number of years. Some say that a visit to Newquay was the inspiration for the tale, others report that Dylan wrote the play as his stance against the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, it was his way of saying to the world that there was still much beauty in our troubled world.
UnderMilkWood beckons us to tune in to the ramblings of the Llareggub village ( a seaside village ) folk going about ...
Advantages: A good film well-written and superb;y acted. Disadvantages: Only one minor flaw.
In 1971 a film crew descended on the small coastal town of Fishguard in Wales, to make a film of Dylan Thomas? 1953 play for voices, UnderMilkWood, directed by Andrew Sinclair.
The story centres on the inhabitants of a small Welsh village, whose lives are shown over a period of one day in Spring.
?It is difficult to make a film that was essentially written for voices? Andrew Sinclair said in an interview during the making of the film. Difficult it may be, but Sinclair handles the filming with skill, sticking closely to Dylan?s original storyline.
The film opens as Richard Burton, (the 1st Voice) and Welsh TV star Ryan Davies (the 2nd Voice) stroll into the fictional village of Llareggub, (read it backwards and you will get a hint of the humour of Dylan Thomas), while its occupants are asleep.
The only fault that I ...
Dylan Thomas's immortal classic about a day in the life of a Welsh village.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS
Release date
20/10/2003
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
821 102 2
Barcode
5050582110227
Author
Dylan Thomas
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Commentary - 1. Andrew Sinclair - Director, Introduction by Andrew Sinclair, Documentary - 1. DYLAN ON DYLAN, Trailer, Interview - 1. Richard Burton, 2. Andrew Sinclair, Stills Gallery
Sound
Stereo
Dubbing Sound
Stereo
DVD Description
This ambitious film, based on a radio play by poet Dylan Thomas, tells of the lives of a number of colourful characters living in the small Welsh village of Llareggub (try saying it backwards). Throughout the movie, a background voice (that of native Welshman Richard Burton) narrates the day-in-the-life action.
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