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| Front |
Back |
Title |
Region |
1 - NTSC -
USA
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Elizabeth
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| Studio |
Polygram |
Alt
Title |
Elizabeth |
| Distributed
by |
Polygram |
Director(s) |
Shekhar
Kapur |
| Running
Time |
124.mins |
Producer(s) |
Tim
Bevan, Eric Fellner, Alison Owen |
| Prod.
Year |
1998 |
Composer(s) |
David
Hirschfelder |
| Genre(s) |
Drama |
Writer(s) |
Michael
Hirst |
| Screen
Format |
WideScreen
1:85:1 Anamorphic |
Prod.Design |
John
Myhre |
| Sound
Format(s) |
DD
5.1 |
Sound |
Mark
Auguste |
| Layer |
DVD-9 |
Actors |
Cate
Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes,
John Gielgud, Richard Attenborough. |
| Case
Type |
Keep
Case (Amaray) |
DVD
Extras: |
Director's
Commentary, The Making of Elizabeth, Elizabeth Featurette, Trailer and
Teaser, Cast and Crew Biographies, Photo Gallery. |
| IMDB
Rating |
7.8 |
DVD-ROM |
None |
| Reviewed |
2/9-1999 |
MPAA
Rating |
R |
| Released |
|
UPC |
4400582732 |
| IMDB
Link |
0127536 |
Comments |
Added
1-Sept-1999
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Review
1 - 2/9-1999 |
BEAUTIFUL MOVIE!
Elizabeth is a beautiful movie about Queen Elizabeth the first. The acting is great, especially from Cate Blanchett who received an Golden Globe award for best actress in a leading role. The filming in this movie is very stylish and well done, and the outfits are great.
I don`t want to reveal the actual story, see it for yourselves. On the 1-6 scale, Elizabeth is well worth giving a 5.
EB.
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Review
2 - 12/10-99 |
It Looks Good, So It Must Be Good
This film is actually quite good, director Kapur and the writers have been smart enough to avoid the usual pitfalls of your average costume drama. They have decided to concentrate on things like greed, treason, sex, power and love. Things that is just as popular today as it was during Elizabeth`s reign. This makes the whole thing more interesting to the modern viewer. Young Elizabeth is cast into a world full of the before mentioned qualities and soon learns to live among these decadent plotting people. OK, the story could have been a bit better, the villain never seems to be really dangerous, he just seems to stare at Elizabeth in evil eye mode.
That doesn`t matter very much, tough. The film looks real good. Great cinematogarphy and fine costumes all the way here. Still, Kapur never lets us forget that this is just a facade, that rats, death and the plague is looming around the corner. This is very much how it was at Elizabeth`s court, I would imagine. The acting is fine. Cate Blanchett shines as Elizabeth, and was robbed of the Oscar from Gwyneth Paltrow. Geoffrey Rush does a fine job as the sinister Walsingham. Even ex-footballer Eric Cantona shows up as the French Ambasssador. He does fine I guess, but I think he should have kept his day job. The only diasppointment is Joseph Fiennes, who is rather dour and unegaging, maybe he was saving his strengths for ”Shakespeare In Love”
Cartman
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