The New World - The Extended Cut (+ Digital Copy)
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Actor: Ben Mendelsohn, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer, Colin Farrell, Michael GreyeyesCinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Composer: James Horner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 172 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of The New World - The Extended Cut (+ Digital Copy)
DVD Review: The REAL Pocahontas
Summary: 4 Stars
The New World, is a great interpretation of the accounts of the famous Native American princess Pocahontas. Though the film still uses the romantized versions of Pocahontas' relationship with John Smith, the film is very dramatic and tells a great story. Though it felt like slow moments in the film, it was counter balanced by the natural beauty of the scene locations present in the majority of the film.
It's a great buy, especially for history buffs.
DVD Review: Realize In Advance It's Slow & Appreciate The Beauty
Summary: 4 Stars
Be prepared.
That's the best advice I could tell anyone who is thinking of watching this film. If you know what you are going to see, in this case, you'll be better off because if you are expecting an action-packed historical adventure story, you will be bitterly disappointed.
This is s-l-o-w moving, very slow, and fairly long at two hours and 15 minutes. If you enjoyed "The Girl With The Pearl Earring," you'll like this. Those two films are similar in beauty and pace.
If you love good visuals, which I do, then this is a DVD you want to view. Terrence Malick has directed only four movies in 33 years and all four are beautifully filmed, the best being the second: "Days Of Heaven." I would rank this second to that film in terms of beauty.
Cinematography-wise, there is a lot to like in The New World, especially the scenes on the water, which are magnificent. I wish there more of them. What we see is Jamestown, Va., in the year 1607, so this film is about as rural as you're ever going to see America.
It's the story of Pocahontas (although she's never called that in the movie) and her relationship to two men: John Smith (Colin Farrell) and John Rolfe (Christian Bale). Newcomer Q'Orianka Kilcher plays the Indian girl who is given the Christian name "Rebecca" later in the film and this woman is mesmerizing throughout. What an innocently-interesting face!
Without giving it away, the ending haunted me for a few days afterward. In the end, it is a powerful story, not just scene after scene of gorgeous photography (which it also is). There is more to this movie than the camera-work, but there is no doubt the cinematography is sitll the main attraction. This is a film crying out for a Blu-Ray presentation!
DVD Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the only movie of any substance about colonial Virginia, and as someone who is descended from the Jamestown colonists (although my folks got there in the 1620s and 1630s) I must say I am pleasantly satisfied with this films telling of John Smith and John Rolfe's encounters with Pocahantas and Powhatan. The colonial Chesapeake is something that ought to be expored more in cinema, and thank God the director didn't just use this as an excuse to demonize all things white and European.DVD Review: Cinematic Bliss
Summary: 5 Stars
After my second viewing of TNW, this time the extended version, all I wanted to do was play in the woods. I wanted to turn cartwheels and run around on the grass and get all muddy. Or stand high in a tree and gaze into the distance. I now find myself looking at trees, birds, and seeking things like beauty, a more gratifying vision, a deeper awakening. Yes, friends, there were historical liberties taken here, concessions to contemporary tastes evoked in a sappy, sentimental, silly little love storyline the historical truth of which could easily be disproven by those of a rational mind. Such discriminating folk may resent having to watch a couple of beautiful people "scuttle about" in the forest to the hauntings of Mozart's 23rd piano concerto for nigh 3 hours. But for those of us who choose not to be so rational, perhaps we like being non-rational, what a glorious cinematographic ride it was; blessed with a 37 additional magnificent minutes more than the theatrical version.
Pocahontas was played by the blissful Q'Orianka Kilcher so comely that it makes the heart ache. Her face blazes like Malick's beloved fire imagery clearer than his unrelenting blue skies. Her feverishly adorning form flows visceral through the landscape like a gazelle in slow motion, like the birds, the rippling water, and the animals in the forest, which, thanks to Mr. Malick's artistic eye, inhabit the film with her. She embodies "form and proportion" to delight the senses and radiates "wit and spirit", so astonishing was she that she "surprised" the sun whenever she came into his presence. Many torments visited upon her during the story all faced with a grace so touching and generosity so uplifting that her promise to herself to find "joy in all she sees" could be a mantra for anyone. A valid question could be how did Mr. Malick draw such a performance?
Mr. Malick definitely has something to say and he says it his own way in his own time. We can second guess his choices with every frame. His motives were no doubt artistic and anything worthy of such distinction is entitled to remove us from servile convention and to make us stretch and flex our imaginative muscles. I don't think he made any of his choices lightly but made his decisions resolutely founded upon a clear vision of the story he wanted to tell and the ideas and images he wanted to show us and affect us to think about. It is lamentable that he averages making a movie every seventeen years.
Mr. Malick's idea of a "special" effect is the natural light at dusk and dawn, God speaking through birdsong, a tear on the cheek reflected in firelight, fire itself, sunlight reflected through trees, birds in flight, deep blue skies, a water snake, a close up of the human ear. No obligatory explosions, no fake lighting or sets, no blue screens here, no over rehearsed acting but telling the story much through improvised movement and expression frequently, from what I understand, filmed when the actors didn't know he had the camera running. No excess, not a trace.
The dialogue is spare and poetic where thoughts sotto voce mingle with what is spoken aloud. When Pocahontas spoke the last time with her uncle in the English gardens, we have the rare privilege of experiencing a conversation in the Algonquin language which articulated a surreal, musical atmosphere. Her last words to Smith, this time in English, fell touchingly like loving teardrops: "Did you find your Indie's, John?" Smith's Reply: "I may have sailed right past them." Their time together in the Virginia woodlands was dreamlike and when recalled in those last few moments they spent together, language wasn't enough to give expression to their memories, across the expanse of time. To recreate such moments, and achieve such an affect through some indescribable medium, where all of the elements of film converge, is why we need people like Terrence Malick.
This work is an elegy, one for Pocahontas and the way of life that that for her was decimated. The final few images gently reveal what was lost in her passing; an empty family bed, an Indian spirit guide, a gravestone, a joyous final cartwheel across the grass(in dreams, in death, or real?) accompanied by a soundtrack laced with Wagnerian flourishes. The final image is a visual symphony of river rapids wherein suddenly the music ends and we are left with pure sound; water rolling over rocks for a few suspended moments. This is the music that we lost, the natural music that symbolically died; Pocahontas, our "little wanton," our "playful one" and the way of life she lost, her vanished wildness. "All things die".
Poetry is not for everyone nor is classical music. If modern film making had a parallel to the more elevated, less commercial, art forms that aren't as accessible to the modern, for profit tastes, this would be it or at least its beginnings. All honor to you.
DVD Review: A meaningful work filled with tastefully touches...
Summary: 3 Stars
Terrence Malick is a director who really does want to be anonymous... He is a professor from some distant university who is stumbled into the world of show business and refused to be seduced by it in any way... He does it his way, and only his way...
To him "The New World" is a dream and he presents it in a wonderful way, avoiding the reality of history and avoiding the authenticity of it... It's one man's vision and he sees it with visuals and with sounds of nature... Smith and the little Indian teenager were very in love with each other and Malick show it very gently and beautifully in his film...
Colin Farrell embodied the character of Smith, his age, his right spirit... He is an adventurer with energetic power...He gives a solid, believable performance playing Captain John Smith, the mutinous explorer whose mastery of experience and his inability to stay in one place, increases his desire to look ahead and explore new horizons, always wondering where he will be next...
Q'Orianka Kilcher stands as Mataoka or Pocahontas, the incredibly strong young woman, obviously incredibly smart and lightning... She is her father's favor, very innocent, very playful, in touch with everything, in touch with the earth, with the sun, with the sky, worshipping the beauty of the nature... Smith was vividly drawn to her because of her ability to represent the beauty that's he never experienced before...
Pocahontas was really looking for bringing two totally different worlds together and collaborating for peace... She was a big dreamer with wildly unrealistic expectations... Malick taught her how to act through silence, and she conveys what she was saying in words through her silence...
Malick is an interesting director, and a great philosopher... He's just all heart, all instinct... His work speaks to the heart of the humanity... He's not interested in recording history but moving far beyond a simplistic love story...
Description of The New World - The Extended Cut (+ Digital Copy)
Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 10/14/2008 Run time: 171 minutes Rating: NrThe legend of Pocahontas and John Smith receives a luminous and essential retelling by maverick filmmaker Terrence Malick. The facts of Virginia's first white settlers, circa 1607, have been told for eons and fortified by Disney's animated films: explorer Smith (Colin Farrell) and the Native American princess (newcomer Q'orianka Kilcher) bond when the two cultures meet, a flashpoint of curiosity and war lapping interchangeably at the shores of the new continent. Malick, who took a twenty year break between his second and third films (Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line), is a master of film poetry; the film washes over you, with minimal dialogue (you see characters speak on camera for less than a quarter of the film). The rest of the words are a stream-of-consciousness narration--a technique Malick has used before but never to such degree, creating a movie you feel more than watch. The film's beauty (shot in Virginia by Emmanuel Lubezki) and production design (by Jack Fisk) seems very organic, and in fact, organic is a great label for the movie as a whole, from the dreadful conditions of early Jamestown (it makes you wonder why Englishman would want to live there) to the luminescent love story. Malick is blessed with a cast that includes Wes Studi, August Schellenberg, Christopher Plummer, and Christian Bale (who, curiously, was also in the Disney production). Fourteen-year-old Kilcher, the soul of the film, is an amazing find, and Farrell, so often tagged as the next big thing, delivers his first exceptional performance since his stunning debut in Tigerland. James Horner provides a fine score, but is overshadowed by a Mozart concerto and a recurring prelude from Wagner's Das Rheingold, a scrumptious weaving of horns fit to fuel the gentle intoxication of this film. Note: the film was initially 150 minutes, and then trimmed to 135 by Malick before the regular theatrical run. It was also the first film shot in 65mm since Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. --Doug Thomas
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