A Poet in New York

A Poet in New York is a British drama television film that was first broadcast, in a 60minute version, by BBC One Wales onApril 2014. A longer 75minute version was later broadcast by BBC Two onMay 2014. The film, written by Andrew Davies and directed by Aisling Walsh, explores how Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at the age of 39. The drama was made to mark the centenary of Thomas birth onOctober 1914.

Thomas expert George Tremlett did not understand why the BBC had chosen to commemorate the centenary the poets birth by making a film about his death.In The Guardian Stuart Jeffries wrote Hollander and Essie Davis as Caitlin performed well youthful concupiscence gone sour. Ceri Radford, in The Daily Telegraph said Hollander made a startlingly good Thomas, while the script came from one of the few writers who could hope to do the poet justice. and This was tragedy in the Shakespearean sense a great man undone by one fatal weakness. ... The production was lush, lyrical and very, very funny. In Financial Times, Antonia Quirke wrote We see so many performances based on real people ... actors faced with the gnarled question of whether to impersonate or interpret. ... Tom Hollander gives a performance finely balanced between the two approaches terrific mimicry, but unpredictable and subtle.. ........

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