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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043102530
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 09, 2006
Running Time: 150 minutes
Sales Rank: 4155
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 2006
Editorial Review:
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
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Paradise Lost
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, ... Read More
Rating: - Many people dislike the film...
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
Rating: - Another Malick "love it or hate it" film.
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.
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This is the story of Pocahontas and John Smith portrayed in a style you've never ... Read More
Rating: - This movie is in itself a different world
I'm not surprised this movie only averages (at current) 3 stars. It is a very different kind of movie and you have to be prepared for a different experience. Clearly many reviewers here were not, so I wanted to review it just to make some points about this film. (I should add that it is one of my 2 or 3 favorite films of all time.)
There are really two different stories at work here. One is about culture and the other is about romantic love. The pace of the movie, which is slow, is necessary for ... Read More
Rating:  - poetic
if you like Terrence Malick, this will suit you. deeply romantic, long and poetic
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