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Set fire to the stars / The Works presents a Mad as Birds film in association with YJB Films & Masnomis and Ffilm Cymru Wales ; produced by AJ Riach & Andy Evans ; screenplay, Andy Goddard & Celyn Jones ; directed by Andy Goddard.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 3504-2 | Strand ReleasingLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Publisher: [Culver City, Calif.] : Strand Releasing, [2015]Description: 1 videodisc (93 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Music, Gruff Rhys ; costume designer, Francisco Rodriguez-Weil ; production designer, Edward Thomas ; editor, Mike Jones ; director of photography, Chris Seager ; executive producer, Steve Clark-Hall.
Cast: Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Eldon, Maimie McCoy, Steve Speirs, Richard Brake, Shirley Henderson, Kelly Reilly.Summary: Based on true events, this semi-biographical film is about aspiring American poet John M. Brinnin who 1950 arranged a series of poetry readings at the most prestigious college campuses of the United States for his hero, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and their turbulent relationship as Brinnin embarks on a week-long private retreat to his family's cabin in the woods of Connecticut in a desperate attempt to save the infamous, volatile celebrity poet who scandalized the Manhattan literati and challenged Brinnin's worship of his work.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD DRAMA Set fire Available 33111008634111
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Based on true events. Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet, tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss, who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the fifties and challenged Brinnin's hero worship of his work.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Eldon, Maimie McCoy, Steve Speirs, Richard Brake, Shirley Henderson, Kelly Reilly.

Music, Gruff Rhys ; costume designer, Francisco Rodriguez-Weil ; production designer, Edward Thomas ; editor, Mike Jones ; director of photography, Chris Seager ; executive producer, Steve Clark-Hall.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

Widescreen.

Container states incorrectly that this film is in color.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Based on true events, this semi-biographical film is about aspiring American poet John M. Brinnin who 1950 arranged a series of poetry readings at the most prestigious college campuses of the United States for his hero, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and their turbulent relationship as Brinnin embarks on a week-long private retreat to his family's cabin in the woods of Connecticut in a desperate attempt to save the infamous, volatile celebrity poet who scandalized the Manhattan literati and challenged Brinnin's worship of his work.

Special features: Deleted and extended scenes; Dylan Thomas poems - 'And death shall have no dominion', 'If I were tickled by the rub of love', and 'In my craft or sullen art' read by Celyn Jones, 'Love in the asylum' read by the cast; Gruff in Metropolis.

Filmed on location in Swansea Bay, Wales.

"A week with Dylan Thomas"--cover.

"This story is based upon actual events"--End credits.

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