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| The New World | 
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| Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  295 reviews
Sales Rank: 4999
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 150
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: N10253
UPC: 794043102530
EAN: 0794043102530
ASIN: B000ESSUL4
Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 2006
Release Date: May 9, 2006
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Condition: Media ONLY. Good Condition. This item comes with no original case, box, sleeve or artwork. 30 Day Guarantee!. Discs, tapes and games will ship in clear generic case. This item MAY have been a previous rental.
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Product Description
In this romantic epic starring Colin Farrell Christian Bale and beautiful newcomer Q'orianka Kilcher acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick brings to life the classic true tale of Pocahontas and her relationship with adventurer John Smith set during the turbulent beginnings of America.Running Time: 150 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043102530 Manufacturer No: N10253
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The 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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 Power Glove September 29, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
Had two different Power Gloves Had big trouble with both of them
Second glove they said, changes were made. Worked for a short period of time.
Than messed up. Good idea bad electronics
 Great September 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Terrence Malick is simply the greatest living American filmmaker. Only Stanley Kubrick was his equal or superior. That's not to say that Martin Scorsese nor Woody Allen have not made great films, but they've both made stinkers in their careers, and neither has had a great film in over a decade (although I've heard good things about Allen's current Match Point). Not only is Malick the best filmmaker in the nation, despite The New World being only his 4th film in the 33 years since his first, Badlands, was released, but he may be the only filmmaker in the world who truly has developed his own cinematic language- apart from a reliance on the written words of a screenplay to carry the bulk of the film's art and story. He is also the greatest American historian in the cinematic art form. It's his forte alone.
Better still, he never condescends in his films. He presents his tales sparely, with cinematography, enough dialogue to convey the scene, and occasional voiceovers that play off the visuals and imagery to leave a poetic dissonance in the viewer's mind that the mind is forced to fill in the synapse with its own meaning, thus creating narrative from symbols, visuals, and their interplay. It truly is a different and new form of screenwriting; and a great form, one wholly enmeshed in the medium that birthed it. What makes it great are not the words, but their relation to what is on the screen. Simple declarative and/or descriptive sentences, such as Smith's descriptions of Pocahontas, `She exceeded the others not only in beauty and proportion, but in wit and spirit, too,' or Rolfe's ideas about her, `When first I saw her, she was regarded as someone broken, lost,' transcend Shakespearean depth in this new medium, and in centuries hence Terrence Malick will get his due as one of the giants of the `early', first century of human cinema.
The actual meat of this film is the by now almost fabular tale of John Smith (Colin Farrell) and his `love'- Pocahontas (although that name is never used in the film)- during the settling of Jamestown by Captain Newport (Christopher Plummer) and his charges. All the familiar facts are presented- he is captured by her tribe, her father, Chief Powhatan (August Schellenberg), releases him when she saves him from death. He grows to respect the Indians, returns to Jamestown, abandons her when she is outcast by her father for supposedly betraying her people by feeding the English during the winter, then giving them seeds to grow crops, and she ends up marrying John Rolfe (Christian Bale), a kind widower whose son has also died, taking the Christian name Rebecca, giving him another son, and wowing the English court.
If film can achieve sheer apports with its art, then Terrence Malick is the lone levitator and magician around. The only minor negative point in this film, and it's very minor, is that as well-done as the voiceovers are the film might have been better off without them, for some of the poetic statements of Smith, Rolfe, and Pocahontas seem a bit over the heads of their 17th Century low born utterers- unlike those in his earlier films. Of all the films that are getting Oscar buzz- from worthy films like Capote and Shopgirl, to blatantly PC fodder like Brokeback Mountain, this is- easily- the best film that last year produced. Yet, it will only get some cinematography, editing, scoring, or other minor nods.
There is a ritualistic feel to this film that glues one's eyes to it, from its sublime opening to its choral ending shot of New World trees reaching sunward, even to its non-standard non-black screen credits at the end. This is not a film, but an experience, and that is not me trying to sound poetic, but really defining the film. See it, then get the DVDs of his earlier films and see that real, great art still exists. Then, if you want to go back to crap after that, I'm sure Spielberg will have another clunker ready in a few months. People like him always do. Yet, it'll probably be another decade before we get a Malick masterpiece. Sigh.
Paradise Lost July 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is understandable why so many underrated this great movie. It is because there are so many people in modern American society who are dead on the inside, mere spiritual space-occupying shells, unable to feel the personality of the very real Pocahontas the movie accurately captures, let alone even remotely understand the dichotomy between the more worldly English and the less materially focused natives they encountered.
Historical accounts dimly capture the persona of a vibrant, intelligent, precocious, empathetic, beautiful, as well as courageous real-life Indian Princess known to the English as "Pocahontas". Her love of life and her effect on those around her is stunningly captured by this spectacular take on the John Smith/Pocahontas real life Romeo and Juliet tragedy. John Smith's near fatal injury (his gunpowder pouch exploded against his upper thigh) is the initial reason that Smith leaves America (and Pocahontas), as accurately portrayed in the movie, but why he never returns to her is unknown (I believe that he may have been impotent after the injury), but Malik intelligently speculates that Smith tragically chose fame and fortune over the love of a magnificent woman. Their final meeting is, once again, accurately portrayed.
The stunning cinematography, a Malik mainstay, greatly contributes to this great story...a visual masterpiece welded to one of history's greatest lessons.
Many people dislike the film... July 18, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
because we are seeing a quick cut half telling of the 171 minute film- this New Edition coming should either bore us to death or be a monumental epic of poetic filmmaking.
This is NOT a Hollywood film. But isnt Bergman either.
Jonh Smith and his haggard pouting did get to be a nuisance...
Q'Orianka Kilcher is like the sun and the moon and the stars
Another Malick "love it or hate it" film. June 17, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's clear to me now that most anyone who watches a Terrence Malick film cannot remain bipartisan in their final assessment of his work. Simply put, people either love his films or they loathe them. For those of us who love symbolism, deeply meditative sequences of sound and imagery, or poetic cinematography, the New World will again act as an ample supply to fulfill your lust for films less ordinary.
PLOT:
This is the story of Pocahontas and John Smith portrayed in a style you've never seen before. Smith arrives in 17th century Jamestown upon a ship and is sentenced to die, but his sentence is revoked when Smith's importance to the survival of the new colony is acknowledged. He isn't safe from the surrounding "naturals", however, and soon finds himself on the verge of death again until young Pocahontas saves his life.
The two quickly develop a platonic friendship in which they innocently teach one another words from each other's native tongue, and roam the landscape in type of otherworldly, cherubic flight of tranquility. Smith, feeding his constant wanderlust, eventually leaves Pocahontas, who at this point has been abandoned by her tribe for placing Smith above her people. She remains at the Anglo settlement and begins adopting their customs and culture. It is here that Pocahontas meets John Rolfe and eventually marries him, adopting the Anglo name of Rebecca. But the memory, and presence, of Smith are not completely evaporated and a final reunion seems imminent.
The New World is just as much about the spiritual bond of family as it is the ideal relationship between Smith and Pocahontas. The young native woman at times questions where her dead mother has gone, and in the last hauntingly beautiful segment of the film, finally realizes that all of us live on in our children.
There are a number of breathtaking scenes in which Malick intertwines natural beauty and a series of pensively symbolic imagery. Outside a battle scene towards the middle of the film, The New World is remarkably clean and lacks any type of romantic sensuality between Smith and Pocahontas. I highly recommend this film to anyone who has interest in the story or to anyone who enjoys well-crafted films.
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