My first contact with Dylan Thomas was Rodney Dangerfield's reading of "Do Not Go Gentle," in the movie Back to School; I think it had something to do with his attempts to sleep with an English prof. Needless, I now remember the poem much more easily than the movie.
In Apocalypse Now there was that reporter who kept reciting Prufrock, & then Kurtz himself quoted from the Hollow Men, the epigraph to which is, "Mistah Kurtz, he dead." An interesting little intertextual game, I thought.
I also saw a Steven Spielberg film about a robot boy that used a poem from Yeats ("The Faery Child"?), but I can't remember the name of the film. I don't think it was very good.
Chris
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