Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD] | ![Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QclYBsHcL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Shekhar Kapur
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Samantha Morton, Abbie Cornish
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 29070
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: MCAHD61102688
UPC: 025195021296
EAN: 0025195021296
ASIN: B000ZOXDG4
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 5, 2008
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Side a-high definition (r) 2hr 36min side b-standard definition (r 2hr 36min & ur 2hr 54min) Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/05/2008 Starring: Denzel Washington Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Ridley Scott
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In 1998's Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur added a layer of suds to his history lesson; the director follows the same audience-pleasing recipe in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Since the first film, Blanchett scored an Oscar for her note-perfect rendition of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, and she plays the preternaturally bemused monarch in a similar fashion. By 1585, Elizabeth I is an experienced ruler about to face two of her biggest challenges: betrayal by her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart (Control's Samantha Morton), and invasion by the Spanish Armada. It isn't so much that the Protestant Elizabeth wishes to rid England of "papists," but that she wants her country to remain free from foreign domination. Closer to her home, she enjoys a sisterly relationship with lady-in-waiting Bess (rising Aussie star Abbie Cornish). That changes when Sir Walter Raleigh (a dashing Clive Owen) hits the scene. In order to continue exploring the New World, he seeks the queen's sponsorship. She is charmed, but Raleigh only has eyes for Bess. As in the previous picture, Elizabeth enjoys better luck at affairs of state than affairs of the heart, but the conclusion is more beatific than before (and Kapur intends a third installment if Blanchett is willing). Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a rush of royal intrigue, bloody torture, fantastic headpieces, and irresistibly ripe dialogue, like "I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me!" To Kapur, victory for the Virgin Queen was a viable alternative to sex. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Rubbish! February 7, 2010
Charlie A (Wichita, KS United States)
This dreadful movie takes extraordinary artistic license with the facts of history to be polite. The Spanish Ambassador looked more like an Arab than a real Spaniard and the portrayal of King Philip was akin to an evil and ugly scheming Klingon captain of Star Trek fame. In actuality, Elizabeth I was not all she was cracked up to by the propagandistic British historical establishment. That mad woman embroiled England in a war(1585-1604) against Spain that actually bankrupted it and forced her successor, King James I, to sue for peace with Spain and sign a peace treaty that was largely on Spanish terms.
 Elizabeth the Golden Age January 9, 2010
Larry H. Drake
This movie had a good quality picture,but it was cut down from the original version.This made it very disappointing to me.
 The Golden Age is amazing! January 5, 2010
Camron Barth
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Elizabeth: The Golden Age is amazing! Before I saw it I was enraptured by the trailer and then saw it three times in theaters! I didn't learn until after the third time that it's actually a sequel to a movie, Elizabeth, released in 1998. So obviously you don't have to be familiar with 1998's Elizabeth to appreciate The Golden Age (released in October of 2007).
This movie inspired me to learn more about sixteenth century English history. It truly is an interesting and remarkable segment of human history!
For those of you who are somewhat reluctant to experience Elizabeth: The Golden Age, consider this: it's basically Star Wars if you replace the Empire with the Spanish Armada and Luke Skywalker with Queen Elizabeth. There are even familial connections between Elizabeth and the Spanish King.
Enjoy!
Beautiful and very well done January 1, 2010
A. K. Berner (Austin, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not only does this film have some of the finest cinematography I've ever seen, the way this oft-told story was detailed was a real treat. The acting was excellent, and the soundtrack was also superb.
Hard to ask more from any movie: I highly recommend it.
Eye Candy for historical morons and religious bigots. December 18, 2009
J. Michael (Now Born)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
"Elizabeth- the Golden Age" is a star-studded, well-acted, visually sumptuous cinematic hate crime. Surpassing even the Davinci Code in historical fabrication, coarse stereotypes and anti-Catholic bigotry, "Elizabeth" has set a new low in the use of film to demonize, mock and slander a group of people. One would have to go back, perhaps, to "The Jew Suss" to see a film that would equal "Elizabeth" in religious hatred. Perhaps Shekhar Kapur's next project will be to bring "Maria Monk" to the screen.
From the film's introductory assertion that "Philip II, a devout Catholic, has plunged Europe into war", educated men will guffaw at the shameless lies this movie tries to have us swallow. The cartoonish, Manichean caricatures that populate this movie are enough to condemn it: weird, cadaverous Spaniards, Jesuit assassins, treasonous Catholics, a creepy Spanish Infanta who plays with an Elizabeth voodoo doll, and a vacant-eyed Philip II who limps about gibbering insanely. On the other hand we have the thoroughly modern Gloriana, the liberated woman and good boss, who indulgently winks at her equally likable subordinates' slip-ups and looks darned saucy in a fabulous wardrobe and a big red wig.
But the sins of this movie don't stop at characterizations that would have been thought shallow in the silent film era. Most shameless of all is the portrayal of Elizabeth as an advocate for freedom and religious tolerance. She is indeed famously recorded as having said that she had "no desire to make windows into men's souls". To be sure, a Catholic under the Elizabethan regime was "free" to believe whatever he wanted, so long as his faith stayed within the confines of his mind. If he didn't publicly abjure the Pope and the old Faith, worship and live as a Protestant in all externals, and keep his Catholicism completely secret, persecution and death awaited. The fate of St. Edmund Campion discloses, in bloody microcosm, the reality of Catholic life under Elizabeth. Arrested for preaching England's ancient Gospel and administering the Sacraments to England's persecuted Catholic majority, Campion was racked, tortured, hanged to the point of death, disemboweled and castrated while alive, then beheaded and quartered. Such was the vaunted tolerance of Bloody Bess for those who resisted the ersatz, government-issued religion.
Perhaps the current decline and collapse of the practically pagan English "church" is yet another proof of the old saying that the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. The Anglican compromise was an unnatural and insupportable belief system imposed upon an unwilling people, and like all bad ideas, has produced bad fruit: Deism, indifferentism, innumerable sects, naturalism and ultimately atheism. For hundreds of years, and for some inscrutable purpose of God, this alien system was permitted to flourish in England but now seems to be approaching its end. Whither the English go now, to the Faith of their ancestors or down some other path, God only knows.
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