As promised here are 5 clips from The Golden Age and the segment from the Making of about the relationship between Elizabeth, Bess and Raleigh. Enjoy!

VIDEO LINKS:
- Movies: The Golden Age

Yesterday, Elizabeth: The Golden Age was released on Region 1 DVD. I have gotten my copy and today I made caps of the film itself as well as all features that had our Abbie. Ms. Cornish looks so stunning in every single frame of the movie, I went a little crazy on the amount of captures, but I’m sure you won’t mind ;). Unfortunetly Abbie only spoke in The Making of featurette but had very brief shots in others. I’m disappointed with the features, I hoped for more cast interviews and some kind of feature about the lovely costumes! Still it’s another fantastic Abbie performance to add to one’s collection. I will be uploading videos tomorrow evening so check back then as well!

Warning: Captures will contain spoilers to those of you who have not seen the film!

GALLERY LINKS:
- The Golden Age: DVD Screencaptures
- The Golden Age: DVD Screencaptures - Deleted Scenes
- The Golden Age: DVD Screencaptures - Making Of
- The Golden Age: DVD Screencaptures - Inside Elizabeth’s World
- The Golden Age: DVD Screencaptures - Towers, Courts & Cathedrals
- The Golden Age: DVD Screencaptures - Menus

The Golden Age will be released on DVD (Region 1) on February 5th. It will have a anamorphic widescreen 1.85 transfer, and DVD features include:

- Audio commentary from director Shekhar Kapur
- Deleted scenes
- Featurettes: The Reign Continues: Making Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Inside Elizabeth’s World, Commanding the Winds: Creating the Armada and Towers, Couters and Catherdals.

You can pre-order a copy on Amazon. Stay tuned to Abbie Cornish Online when the big day comes for screencaps.

Rising Aussie star Abbie Cornish has advice for those who question the history of Elizabeth: The Golden Age - go and see a documentary.

Pedants and trainspotters need not apply to see Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

Abbie Cornish’s advice to those who will take inevitable issue with the facts, which have been stretched, tweaked, and in some cases just plain stomped on? Go see a documentary.

“This is a film and in order for it to work certain things have to be compacted and moved and if people want to know exact times and dates and places, they’re quite free to research that,” she says.

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Abbie Cornish finds her characters through divining the smallest of details. For 2004’s Somersault, her acclaimed breakthrough role, it was a matter of figuring out how Heidi, the haltingly hopeful teenage girl she played, would grasp a schooner of beer. But to play Elizabeth “Bess” Throckmorton, the favoured lady-in-waiting of Cate Blanchett’s Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, it was a far more difficult process of discovery.

Shekhar Kapur’s vivid melodrama was the first period piece of the 25-year-old’s short but successful career. The prospect made her nervous. Yet production staff were able to supply information, including a portrait of the real lady-in-waiting, where Cornish saw a dancer’s graceful hand and realised how gentle the character was.

The key revelation came in the first week of shooting in England this year.

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