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Sounds interesting. According to IMDB it will be out sometime in 2008.
The Young Victoria (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin Scorsese to Produce The Young Victoria
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Looks really promising! The cast looks great! Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson and Paul Bettany. I don't know who Emily Blunt is, but hopefully she lives up to the standards of Victoria Hamilton in the 2001 miniseries. I'm kind of disappointed that Rupert Friend is playing Prince Albert; I don't care for him very much. I'd rather Jonathan Firth reprise his role
I find it kind of neat that Princess Beatrice, a real descendant of Victoria, will be making a cameo appearance.
US critics have savaged Cate Blanchett's new Oscar hope, Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age is an unholy mixture of the banal and the bombastic," New York magazine told its readers.
Then surely those that do, musn't be able to think for themselves...haha...j/k
TRF has nothing to do with it as far as I'm aware. I am talking as an every day world citizen.
I agree that the trailor looks really good and having met Cate at the races (was in the same marquee at The Melbourne Cup. For those who don't know what the Melbourne Cup is, it's the biggest horse racing event in the Southern Hemipshere), and being quite the 'fan' of her's myself, I'm looking forward to this anticipated sequel, whatever the "appraisal".
Gee, you met her? Fascinating.
I hope Elizabeth:The Golden Age will be historically accurate unlike other biopics that shall remain nameless.
I hope Elizabeth:The Golden Age will be historically accurate unlike other biopics that shall remain nameless.
The reviews I read complain that the movie is pretty careless with the truth so in a word, I don't think its too historically accurate.
For those of you in the US PBS is running a documentary series called
Monarch with David Starkey. It covers European monarchy through the centuries. I caught only the tail end last night (10pm on PBS chanel 13 in NYC) of the episode on King James during the 1600s. His devotion to catholism and the strife it brought to England. It seems pretty extensive (covering some of the castle built by monarchs etc) and I'd like to see other episodes if anyone has it. I checked the PBC station on Youtube this morning but it is not uploaded there as of today.
David Starkey is a British historian who has a hardcover book called Monarchy for sale at Amazon. I wonder if this series only covers British monarchy? The description caption talked about the Dutch monarchy but the show was actually on King James so I cant be certain how encompassing the series will be. I'll
check out the next episode at report here.
I recieved the DVD Monarchy for Chistmas.
The series only covers the British monarchy starting from the fall of the Roman Empire through Queen Victoria.