Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood (Special Collector's Edition)
by Andrew Sinclair
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Actor: Elizabeth Taylor, Glynis Johns, Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, Vivien MerchantDirector: Andrew Sinclair
Cinematographer: Robert Huke
Writer: Andrew Sinclair
Producer: Hugh French
Producer: John Comfort
Producer: Jules Buck
Producer: Peter James
Writer: Dylan Thomas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood (Special Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Plays better As Theatre
Summary: 3 Stars
Cast and production are fine given the material which still doesnt stand up in time to the medium of film.
Having portrayed parts in same production for stage it played much better even though the dialouge for a just trained actor caused me much greif until finally by performance night it took-off and an extended season ensued. A Successful financial-run in 95'@www.darlinghursttheatre.com I feel based on the originalmaterial that was somewhat edited down was far superior albeit in theater form with cast of unknowns and expertly directed by Glenn Terry whom knew and understood the script, while I had never read nor was familiar with the lyrical and poetic dialouge just how well it has been done since.
But Film is a different medium and therfore by comparrison only still has this been done more successfully on stage and it goes without saying no big names are required to breathe life into this somewhat repressed and semi-dark daydreams of a small-village town druggery gone mad if not the dialouge is beautifully spouted if not harder to enact and speak to audiences unfamiliar with Dylan Thomas works of "Under Milkwood"
Summary of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood (Special Collector's Edition)
Based on famed writer dylan thomas masterpiece. A magical & hilarious story of a spring day in a small welsh coastal village. Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 02/26/2008 Starring: Richard Burton Peter Otoole Run time: 88 minutesUnder Milk Wood is an imaginative, cinematic rendering of Dylan Thomas's famous "play for 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 Andrew Sinclair sets the story in a real seaside community and visually complements the text's lengthy, opening narration by enlisting Richard Burton both for his brooding voiceover and a mysterious, on-screen role as a drunken gadabout soaking in the very soul of the town Thomas' words describe. Once the narration ends, the film breathes freely with a succession of lively vignettes, some funny, some dramatic, but all rooted in the peculiar circumstances of characters who either feel trapped by or ensconced in their home. Peter O'Toole plays the wizened, blind Captain Cat, haunted by memories of drowned sailors but so attuned to the sounds of village life outside his window he can identify the children screaming in a park. Elizabeth Taylor (Burton's wife at the time) makes a brief appearance as Rosie Probert, and the other players include Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant, and Victor Spinetti. --Tom Keogh
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