The Secrets of the Golden Compass
by Gerry Malir
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Actor: Secrets of the Golden CompassDirector: Gerry Malir
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 173 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arts Magic
DVD Reviews of The Secrets of the Golden Compass
DVD Review: Close as you will get to a visual biography
Summary: 4 Stars
This presentation is the closest I have come to finding a video biography of Philip Pullman. It also includes a very comprehensive anthology of many of his other works.
Produced in 2007 this presentation is 81 minutes long.
In this presentation we get an overview of Pullman's life and a good visualization his Oxford and that of the Oxford the Lyra had her adventures in.
Some of the extras are specials on this disk are really rehashing the main points and sometimes even copying the main presentation.
The real advantage in this presentation is for people like me who don't know their shoes are untied until somebody says something, can miss a lot of the story by just reading it straight through and not realizing some of the meanings are inferences that are really being placed on the characters their actions.
This presentation makes a good supplement to the books, especially "His Dark Materials."
DVD Review: It's all right
Summary: 4 Stars
It's all right, it's mainly about Phillip Pullman and not as much about the book. Kind of lame graphics and reuses lots of the same pictures/video clips but it doesn't take away from how informative it is. I hate how people like the other "reviewer" jhteacher (if you can call him a reviewer, he's just some moron who probably hasn't even read those books to make up his own mind). The books are wonderful and this dvd gives you some interesting background information about everything. I even consider myself a Christian, yet I still love Pullman's books.DVD Review: The Secrets of the Golden Compass
Summary: 5 Stars
Having been privileged to preview this programme in a classroom environment, I can only say that I wish that the majorty of what I see came up to this standard in terms of information and entertainment value. Every aspect of the book is dealt with, including a detailed review of the narrative intercut with insights from the critic and screenwriter Nick Tucker, who I understand is a friend of Philip Pullman. Visually is held the interest using a mix of re-enactment, 3D illusions and animation, together with a great deal of location shooting that helps to place the book in its true geographic locations. What is more, given the furore that the Golden Compass trilogy, His Dark Materials, has generated, it is interesting to see the point of view of the English Church as represented by the Bishop of Oxford. (Oxford is of course the home city of Lyra, the heroine of the novel). But for me the best thing of all was the comments of Philip Pullman himself, in a detailed interview, where he makes explicit some of his own political and religious views as well as providing insights into what led him to write the books in the first place. Finally, the books themselves are placed in context in an accompanying programme, The World of Philip Pullman, a visual autobiography where the writer also discusses his other works. I strongly recommend this dvd.
Description of The Secrets of the Golden Compass
As sales of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass trilogy (His Dark Materials) pass the 12 million mark world wide, New Line Cinema (The Lord of the Rings) releasesits version, claimed to be the most expensive movie ever!
Our tribute to this extraordinary phenomenon, The Secret of the Golden Compass, includes interviews with the critic and author Nick Tucker (who also wrote our scripts) and the Bishop of Oxford, as well as an extended exclusive interview with the author himself. Pulling no punches, we find out how this famous work reflects his views on society, politics and religion, views that have earned him the hatred of fundamentalist believers. Our journey into Pullman s other worlds provides you with all the evidence you need to make up your own mind on the matter!
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