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Set Fire to the Stars is a 2014 Welsh semi-biographical drama film directed by Andy Goddard in his directorial debut. Co-written by Goddard and Celyn Jones, the film stars Elijah Wood as poet John M. Brinnin and Jones as Dylan Thomas with supporting roles by Kelly Reilly, Steven Mackintosh, Shirley Henderson, and Kevin Eldon. The film was ...
Jun 12, 2015 · Set Fire to the Stars: Directed by Andy Goddard. With Elijah Wood, Steven Mackintosh, Andrew Bicknell, Celyn Jones. An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell-raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
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- Biography, Drama
- Andy Goddard
- 2015-06-12
Jun 12, 2015 · Set Fire to the Stars. Directed by Andy Goddard. Biography, Drama. Not Rated. 1h 37m. By Stephen Holden. June 11, 2015. Time was when the lilting incantations of the Welsh poet Dylan...
- Stephen Holden
- Andy Goddard
May 6, 2015 · Opening Select Theaters Jun 12th.Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. ...
Jun 12, 2015 · “Set Fire to the Stars” takes its title from a Dylan Thomas poem and its plot from “Dylan Thomas in America,” the 1956 memoir by poetry scholar John Malcolm Brinnin. In 1950, Brinnin brought Thomas to New York to kick off a multi-city tour of general audience poetry readings and meet-and-greets with the heads of Ivy League universities.
Jun 19, 2015 · Gorgeous, evocative and well performed, “Set Fire to the Stars” recounts the week in 1950 when New York poetry professor John Brinnin (Elijah Wood) brought famed Welsh poet — and Brinnin’s...
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Jun 12, 2015 · Set Fire to the Stars. In 1950, poet John Brinnin (Elijah Wood) invites Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones) to New York and Connecticut, where he tries to detoxify the heavy-drinking writer...
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