In the days leading up until the
Oscars, I'll be featuring the nominees in the various visual categories. This week, I'll be looking at the nominees for
Best Costume Design. We've already taken a look at
the costumes in Across the Universe,
Atonement,
La Vie en Rose, and
Sweeney Todd.
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and
Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below you can view Cate Blanchett's
award-nominated performance in
Elizabeth: The Golden Age and
The Jane Austen Book Club, which I featured as one of my
February Must Haves.
Cate Blanchett, in some of the most sumptuous costumes and outrageous hairpieces, can do her best to growl and roar through this follow-up to the 1998 soapy historical piece
Elizabeth, but unfortunately she can't save the faulty script and sloppy pacing that is
The Golden Age. This is a shame because the more Blanchett and her equally amazing costars (Clive Owen, Geoffry Rush, Abbie Cornish) plunge into this material with all they've got, trying to compensate for the film's many flaws, the more the movie veers into camp. Thus, the mediocrity of this Elizabeth sequel is not Elizabeth's fault.
Well it's September, folks, and the summertime movie season is officially over. Now we have a whole new crop of films to check out in the coming chillier months, so in preparation for that, I'm giving you little glimpses of this fall and winter's must-see movies with my
Fall Movie Preview series. Today's roundup: films for and about the ladies.
Why you should watch this trailer for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Cate Blanchett
- Clive Owen
- It looks gorgeous
This long-awaited
sequel to the 1998
Elizabeth, which was also led by Blanchett's forceful presence, will
premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September as their Gala presentation, which is the festival's highest-profile slot. This chapter of Elizabeth's story follows the queen's relationship with Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen), among other highly dramatic things. The movie is in wide release October 12, but to experience this just-released trailer in the meantime, read more
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