The fine cast includes Emily Woof as Dorothy Wordsworth, Samantha Morton as Coleridge's patient wife, Sara Emma Fielding as Wordsworth's chilly spouse, Mary Andy Serkis as John Thelwell, tortured in the Tower of London as Coleridge's partner in political activism and Samuel West as Robert Southey, Coleridge's compassionate friend and the author of ''The Three Bears.''Īs they have for centuries, writers like these make rewarding company. Linus Roache (''The Wings of the Dove'') plays the anguished, hot-blooded Coleridge and John Hannah (''Four Weddings and a Funeral'') is the comparably repressed Wordsworth. The two poets in the film, which opens today at the Village East (Second Avenue at 12th Street, East Village), are admirably portrayed. Boyce bring subtle ridicule to Wordsworth's peripatetic dictation to Dorothy, and they ably transmit the hellish torture and triumph of Coleridge's nightmare journeys into creativity. Temple from time to time slashes the pale blue sky over his England with the diagonal white contrail of a jet aircraft.įilms like ''Pandaemonium,'' in which a visual medium grapples with literary art, often founder in their depiction of creation, but Mr. For the first time since February 2000, Pandemonium Cartoon Circus is available to the public to watch IN ITS ENTIRETY I'm very grateful to the person who h. A nasty, uncompromising film, Aja takes pains to present a shockingly vivid and highly stylized. distribution only co-production with Imagine Entertainment and Eddie Murphy Productions. High Tension (2003) Mawenn Le Besco and Ccile de France are subject to all manner of perverse nastiness and outright exploitation in Alexandre Aja’s breakthrough horror film and linchpin of the New French Extremity movement, High Tension. In graceful underscoring as he makes telling visual and narrative use of the beauteous landscape of lakes and shores and hills and fields and villages that nourished the imagination of these poets, Mr. During his tenure at Fox, the company significantly expanded its production capacity by creating four film divisions-Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox. co-production with Capella International / KC Medien / TriBeca Productions / Jay Ward Productions. So, working from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce (''Hilary and Jackie''), the director, Julien Temple (''Absolute Beginners''), infuses his film with elements of political rebelliousness colored by the French Revolution, government surveillance and repression, utopianism, scientific innovation, respect for nature, drug use and popular stardom of the sort that prompts the press to clamor and young women to swoon.
Literate and handsome, ''Pandaemonium'' examines the relationship between the English romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850) as a drama of friendship, rivalry, ambition, betrayal and political intrigue in an era of recognizable parallels to recent decades.
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