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Terrence Malick: New World
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"THE New World," Terrence Malick's poetic film about John Smith, Pocahontas and the Jamestown settlement, played for a week last month in New York and Los Angeles, but that version is already obsolete. "The New World" that will open around the country next Friday runs two-and-a-quarter hours, 15 minutes shorter than its earlier incarnation (whose brief run qualified it for Academy Awards) and a lot shorter than the three-hour cut Mr. Malick is preparing for the DVD release. The original is now something like "The New World 1.0," and you might wonder if these multiplying versions are part of some Microsoft-inspired marketing ploy, the film equivalent of the endless tinkering that makes you keep updating Windows.
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When making a film, Terrence Malick speaks to his collaborators in poetic images. To Martin Sheen in Badlands (1973), he said: ‘Think of the gun in your hand as a magic wand.’ To the post-production team (editors and sound mixers) on The Thin Red Line (1998), he advised: ‘It’s like moving down a river, and the picture should have the same kind of flow.’ And to Jörg Widmer, his Steadicam operator for The New World (2005), he whispered: ‘You have the quail at the wing when it’s about to fly.’ What kind of directions are these to give your actors and technicians? Malick does not talk to them about the usual, conventional things: the inner psychological or emotional states of characters; the themes or intentions of the story. He does not even talk about the composition of the shots or the editing pattern he envisages for them. Rather, in every case, he asks those who work with him to inhabit a state, a mood, a feeling that is captured in a precise physical image: the wand in the hand, the water in the stream, the bird at the wing.
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As enigmatic as he is talented, Terrence Malick values quality over quantity and proves that less is more. The Waco-born director attended Harvard and Oxford and earned his MFA from the American Film Institute. His directorial debut was with 1969's LANTON MILLS and he was uncredited as a writer in 1971 for Jack Nicholson's DRIVE, HE SAID but noted for his writing in 1972's POCKET MONEY with Paul Newman and the cultish Deadhead Miles. 1973 was the year of BADLANDS, casting the spotlight on producer-writer-director Malick and his then-unknown stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. 1978's DAYS OF HEAVEN was as critically hailed as BADLANDS and won Malick a Best Director award at Cannes. Malick's recent projects include directing the Oscar-nominated THE THIN RED LINE (1998), producing THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY (2001), and executive producing THE ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION (2000).
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Terrence "Terry" Malick (born November 30, 1943 in Waco, Texas) is an American film director. Introduction In a career spanning decades, Malick has only directed one short film and four feature-length films. He is ... slated to direct a new film due out in 2008 called The Tree of Life.[1] Lanton Mills (short film, 1969); Badlands (1973); Days of Heaven (1978); The Thin Red Line (1998); The New World (2005) The Tree of Life (2008) Badlands and Days of Heaven are often considered masterpieces. [2] [3] Malick was nominated for an Academy Award for both Best Adapted Screenplay and Best
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For The New World, TERRENCE MALICK has assembled a distinguished cast led by COLIN FARRELL. One of film's most dynamic and versatile young actors, Farrell stars as John Smith. In addition to introducing newcomer Q'orianka Kilcher, the remarkable international ensemble ... includes CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER (National Treasure, A Beautiful Mind, The Insider); CHRISTIAN BALE (Batman Begins, American Psycho, Empire of the Sun); AUGUST SCHELLENBERG (Black Robe, Iron Will, the Free Willy movies); WES STUDI (Dances With Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans); DAVID THEWLIS (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Seven Years in Tibet); YORICK van WAGENINGEN (The Chronicles of Riddick, Beyond Borders); actor/choreographer RAOUL TRUJILLO (Black Robe, Hallmark TV's The Song of Hiawatha); MICHAEL GREYEYES (Smoke Signals, the title role of TNT's Crazy Horse); KALANI QUEYPO (The Royal Tenenbaums); BEN MENDELSOHN (Vertical Limit, The Year My Voice Broke); NOAH TAYLOR (Almost Famous, Shine); BRIAN F. O'BYRNE (Tony Award winner for Frozen, Million Dollar Baby); JAMIE HARRIS (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Made); JANINE DUVITSKI (About a Boy, The Madness of King George); JOE INSCOE (Kiss the Girls, HBO's From the Earth to the Moon); BEN CHAPLIN (The Thin Red Line, Washington Square); JOHN SAVAGE (The Thin Red Line, The Deer Hunter); ALEX RICE (PBS' Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits and Thief of Time); IRENE BEDARD (Smoke Signals, Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee); EDDIE MARSAN (2004 British Independent Film Award winner for Mike Leigh's Vera Drake); ROGER REES (Frida, The Pink Panther); BILLY MERASTY (Legends of the North, The Broken Cord); MYRTON RUNNING WOLF (Skins); JONATHAN PRYCE (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Brazil); JASPER BRITTON (distinguished British stage actor who most recently portrayed King Henry II in Becket on London's West End); and JESSE BORREGO (the title role of TV's Tecumseh: The Last Warrior, Taylor Hackford's Blood In, Blood Out).
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Synopsis: One of Terrence Malick's early screenwriting efforts, this loosely-structured road movie finds a questionably sane long-distance trucker named Cooper (Alan Arkin) winding his way through the heart of America. An employee of a questionable hauling outfit who has been assigned to drive a newlyRead More
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