- Actors: John Hannah, Linus Roache, Emily Woof, Samantha Morton
- Format: NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Sound
- Language: English, French
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
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- Studio: Warner/Seville
- Release Date: Aug 12 2003
- Run Time: 124 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00006RG9J
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #34,431 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth goes off to fight against the French while Coleridge stays at home and promotes utopianism. After the war, the poets live and work together with Coleridge's wife, Sara (Samantha Morton), and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy (Emily Woof). At first this communal arrangement works to the advantage of Coleridge--who does some of his best writing while Wordsworth stagnates--until Coleridge becomes addicted to opium. Wordsworth, meanwhile, doesn't find his voice until he abandons his friend. In 20th-century vernacular, Wordsworth is the yuppie, Coleridge the hippie. Director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners) even evokes 1960s cinema with this occasionally overwrought--but often visually stunning--essay on the mysteries of creativity. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Synopsis and features for Warner/Seville 2000 dvd release.
May 27 2008
Format:DVD
Actors: Dexter Fletcher, Clive Merrison, John Hannah, Michael Harbour, Linus Roache
Directors: Julien Temple
Format: Region 1
From Amazon.com
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Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth goes off to fight against the French while Coleridge stays at home and promotes utopianism. After the war, the poets live and work together with Coleridge's wife, Sara (Samantha Morton), and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy (Emily Woof). At first this communal arrangement works to the advantage of Coleridge--who does some of his best writing while Wordsworth stagnates--until Coleridge becomes addicted to opium. Wordsworth, meanwhile, doesn't find his voice until he abandons his friend. In 20th-century vernacular, Wordsworth is the yuppie, Coleridge the hippie. Director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners) even evokes 1960s cinema with this occasionally overwrought--but often visually stunning--essay on the mysteries of creativity. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
On the DVD
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Trailer
Widescreen 1.85:1
Optional French Track
Featurette
Scene Selection
Theatrical Trailer
Trailer Gallery
Directors: Julien Temple
Format: Region 1
From Amazon.com
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Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth goes off to fight against the French while Coleridge stays at home and promotes utopianism. After the war, the poets live and work together with Coleridge's wife, Sara (Samantha Morton), and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy (Emily Woof). At first this communal arrangement works to the advantage of Coleridge--who does some of his best writing while Wordsworth stagnates--until Coleridge becomes addicted to opium. Wordsworth, meanwhile, doesn't find his voice until he abandons his friend. In 20th-century vernacular, Wordsworth is the yuppie, Coleridge the hippie. Director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners) even evokes 1960s cinema with this occasionally overwrought--but often visually stunning--essay on the mysteries of creativity. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
On the DVD
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Trailer
Widescreen 1.85:1
Optional French Track
Featurette
Scene Selection
Theatrical Trailer
Trailer Gallery
A Great Movie about Great Poets
Mar 6 2004
Format:VHS Tape
"Pandaemonium" just might be one of the greatest movies ever made about poets. There are very few that I've seen that haven't been superficial, over the top or boring. This movie is sublime. The story of Samuuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordworth makes grand entertainment and exciting drama. Linus Roche is a bundle of wild energy as Coleridge, with his addiction to opium (laudanum) taking center stage as a symbol of his ups and downs in his creative energy and mental health. John Hannah is very good as Worthsworh, a poet totally different than Coleridge but bound together at first for the common cause of writing great poetry. The cast is uniformly excellent and the story is exciting with great location photography and visionary scenes on how Coleridge composed and got the ideas for his masterpieces, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan," and the moving "Frost at Midnight." It is a great movie and great sadness, showing the arc of the two poet's careers. It avoids the stilted language and imagery of former historical epics and is as fresh as if these poets come alive now in the 21st century. A movie to treasure and share. Highly recommended. May it lead its viewers to appreciate poetry and poets more and elavate them to a high place where great words and visions are created and cherished.
Pandaemonium--Dumb and Dumber
Jan 31 2004
Format:VHS Tape
This movie is stunning in its stupidity. The writers are obviously incapable of even the dimmest understanding of the work of either Wordsworth or Coleridge. In their ignorance they must fall back upon a stereotypical pastiche bearing virtually no resemblance to the history or character of either poet. The legacy of these two literary giants offers a rich tapestry to exploit. Yet here we have an offering which might be summed up in one sentence as follows. "Drugs--wow, man cool, no drugs?--bummer."
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A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
Pandaemonium is one of the better films I've seen in a long time. Some of its themes are much like the ideas (ala Hassan i Sabbah & assassins & hunger for paradise) that... Read more
Published on Oct 30 2002 by Jody Schiesser
Brilliant all around masterpiece
"Pandaemonium" is truly a tribute to two of the great geniuses of English Literature--Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Read more
Published on Aug 21 2002 by Molly Zenk
Film with 2 Great Attributes....Temple & Roache
Attribute #1 is that director Julien Temple shows us rather than tells us his vision of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his creative process, especially given that STC was an... Read more
Published on May 8 2002 by carol irvin
Very Enjoyable Film--Definitely Not Boring or Stodgy
I saw the movie on DVD and really enjoyed it. I was reminded of a similar film, _Haunted Summer_, which portrays the meeting of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. Read more
Published on April 5 2002 by Craig Larson
Recommended for poetry fans... if not poet fans
Like the last reviewer, I don't know a lot about the personal lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge. But history aside, the film is beautiful. Read more
Published on Mar 27 2002 by Sarah
Pandaemonium is not what it seems
Pandaemonium purports to show us the relationship between the early English Romantic poets Wordsworth and Coleridge, and, as one might expect, it is full of historical... Read more
Published on Mar 24 2002 by Fred Holzknecht
This is a poem, not a documentary!
I am not a historian, and have not read either William Wordsworth's accounts of his relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or visa versa. Read more
Published on Feb 27 2002 by T. Halkin
Simplistic approach spoils engaging movie
Loving the poetry of Wordsworth AND Coleridge (why is it always assumed that loving one implies hating the other? Read more
Published on Feb 24 2002
I AM NOT A SNOB....
but this was brutal. I have been looking forward to seeing this from the minute I heard it was being made. Right up front I will say I am a Coleridge fantatic. Read more
Published on Feb 15 2002
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