The New World

film by Malick [2005]

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discussed in biography

  • Terrence Malick
    In Terrence Malick

    …years would pass before Malick’s The New World (2005) hit screens. The film, which portrayed the founding of the Jamestown settlement and starred Christian Bale and Colin Farrell, was noted for its historical accuracy. Malick’s next production, The Tree of Life (2011), was an impressionistic essay on humankind’s place in…

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role of Farrell

  • Colin Farrell
    In Colin Farrell: Career

    Director Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005), in which Farrell stars as Capt. John Smith in a historical epic about the founding of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia, was better received but failed to find commercial success.

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