The New World is an epic adventure set amid the encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown settlement in 1607. Inspired by the legend of John Smith and Pocahontas, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick transforms this classic story into a sweeping exploration of love, loss and .. Read more
| Starring | Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, August Schellenberg |
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| Director | Terrence Malick |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance |
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Released as 'Nuovomundo' in its native Italy - 'The New World' is taken, right? - Golden Door is the second film to reach these shores by Emanuele Crialese, the writer-director of Respiro. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, it's a film about a family of illiterate Sicilian peasants coming to America, spurred on by doctored photographs of money growing on trees and chickens the size of donkeys. They find passage on a great steam ship. Men and women are immediately separated, and such is... Read more
Two new films featuring George Clooney and Colin Farrell are to be screened at the Berlin Film Festival. Colin Farrell stars alongside Christian Bale, Jason Aaron Baca and Irene Bedard in Terrance Malik's period drama The New World. The film looks at the lives of the first English settlers in North America and their conflict with the Native Americans. Berlin will also play host to Syriana, a film featuring Kayvan Novak, George Clooney, Matt Damon and Chris Cooper. Clooney plays a CIA operative... Read more
No one goes for the jugular quite like Mad Mel. I doubt there is another filmmaker in Hollywood who could have made a movie about the ancient Mayan civilization in the Yucatec language, with no stars, and then having got the greenlight (owning your own studio has its perks) proceeded to trample that civilization under foot, metaphorically speaking. A bloodbath virtually from start to finish, Gibson's 'Apocalypse Then' is not exactly Dances with Wolves in the pc department, although he does... Read more