Against the Dying of the Light Jewers described his approach to the film as: The title of the film comes from a villanelle written for his dying father by the twentieth century Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night". Against the Dying of the Light Against the Dying of the Light is a documentary film about the work of the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales. Consisting of interviews with Welsh directors, actors and public figures about the significance that film (particularly amateur film) has played in their lives, it achieved a limited UK cinema release in 2001. The film
Come, Gentle Night! Come, Gentle Night! "Come, Gentle Night!" is a poem by Clifton Bingham set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901. It is a song for soprano voice, the title page advertising that it was sung by Madame Clara Butt. The song was written at the same time as Elgar's "Cockaigne", and published in 1901 by Boosey & Co. in London and New York. In his book on Elgar, Thomas Dunhill criticised this and others of his songs, finding it "...almost unbelievable that a composer of such power and distinction should have been willing to attach his name