Caitlin

[TomKnightInfo]

The 'Spitfire' controversy runs on. I'm sorry it has spoiled things for some people. As writer, there is nill contol over props buyers.Pity they made this small slip-up. I just wanted to thank everyone who has watched for the beautiful, engaging and illuminating comments. Tomx

[kevinastraw]

I would have thought spitfire bitter ale just about sums up DT's marriage.

[yippitydodah]

@kevinastraw You would say that, encapsulating life into a comfortable microcosm. Dylan was not a drinker, he was just human, and an old briton, heartbroken on what he saw in WWII, glowing bombs that were used at it's end, and his worry.

[closertofiftythanyew]

Carmarthen Bay is a magical place, with its long lost city beyond the Pembrey burrows, and its closed cockle town now drowned on old St.Ishmaels point, many, many years ago, the otherside of the Gwendraeth. Land when wolves prowled dangerously inland from them. Let alone the wild boar of Twrch Trwyth.....

[manyhighhills]

Love is a barbed talon, no one can explain it, unless it catches you, and eats you, to the death....

Those that have not been chewed, still living or not, have not lived, or are just cowards.

Go for it, play the worst game possible, love.

[kotsreveb]

Sorry, but the bottle of Shepherd Neame's Spitfire ruins any of the gravitas of this clip. What a load of rubbish, Dylan will be chortlin away in his grave over this.

[TomKnightInfo]

Thanks for watching. I'm happy to believe that Dylan would rather chortle with a Filmmaker than spend time with a Critic.

[kotsreveb]

Yes, though probably with one with a greater eye for detail. Spitfire wasn't brewed for the first time until 1991.

[manyhighhills]

In their minds, they felt themselves ten years younger than they actually felt, the early denial of age creeping. Can be tragic, or in Dylans case, terminal, after the personal experience of his Dads demise and visitation to another order.

[katievhoneychurch]

Ive always adored Caitlin Macnamara even more than Thomas ,she seems to embody smthing of a classically irish fiery temperment/strength.I was suprised when she called Dylan's death an enormous liberation.

[cynthiacher]

If she wanted to be "liberated" from him, then why didn't she just divorce him? One reviewer of a book about her and Dylan Thomas said that Caitlin was "morbidly dependent". She was...on men. Their marriage was a horror story. Of course, Caitlin blamed EVERYTHING on Dylan. Caitlin Thomas has been called "the Courtney Love" of her day. She was!

[manyhighhills]

I have known Catlin MacNamaras in my life, I seem to attract them. Let me tell you, they just cannot help themselves, they are a complete nightmare to live with, every day is a challenge. It is the way they are built. I challenge you to put up with them for a month, day-in, day-out. But there is no doubt they make up for it at bed-time, that is where the venus flytrap of them is.....

[manyhighhills]

Bottle of Shepherd Neame Spitfire bitter ale on that Carmarthen Bay beach, all the way from Kent. But I will not complain about that. Maybe there is a hidden message in that.

[TomKnightInfo]

Indeed. Though filmed in Wales, so I don't know why that happened?

[manyhighhills]

That small supermarket in Pendine most probably sold Spitfire, or maybe the Springwell pub, but definitly not the beach hotel, that had only Felinfoel Double Dragon in bottles. Bet in Dylans day it would have been a bottle of Buckleys Nut Brown Ale, all the way from Llanelly, as it was spelt then.

[yippitydodah]

@TomKnightInfo

When I said, in my previous name on youtube, manyhighhills, about a hidden message, I meant it - when Dylan if ever he did see a Spitfire take off and scream into battle, he would have simply said WHY? and broke into tears. That is a poet for you. We need poets to say the abverse.

[yippitydodah]

@TomKnightInfo or is it the obverse, can't remember. OH GOD!

[SEATTLEGRL1]

I live this film!

[SEATTLEGRL1]

hehe Make that "like."

I definitely do not "live this film.

[TomKnightInfo]

Thanks for your comment. Much appreciated.

[manyhighhills]

An Irish accent? And Dylan only took to hard drink gradually after certain events in '45. He knew it was touch and go for mankind after that.

[TomKnightInfo]

Thank you for your interest.

The actress in the film is from an Irish family, as was Caitlin herself.

[manyhighhills]

Excellent film, well done. It is just that wasn't it very much more of a British RP accent, as it was for many of similar background and upbringing of the time? The fieriness is spot on though.

[TomKnightInfo]

Thanks for the comments. I do agree about the RP but that was the director's choice.

[Devpow]

Would really like to see this here in the U.S., is it possible it may be distributed abroad? Thank you for posting this and good luck.

[LIBERALTHNKR]

Was this part of a film festival or can it be obtained for viewing?

[TomKnightInfo]

Hello,

The film is held by the production company and although it has been broadcast on Channel 4 UK television it has not, as far as I'm aware, been shown in any festival.

Thank you for your interest.