{"id":6033,"date":"2014-11-28T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T18:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2014-11-28T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T18:27:47","slug":"recommending-the-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6033","title":{"rendered":"Recommending ‘The New World’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Observant film critic Jeffrey Overstreet recommends Terrence Malick’s The New World <\/i>for our Thanksgiving viewing<\/a>. He shares his insights into the extended cut version and a personal encounter with Malick’s father. <\/p>\n

The New World is an extravagant achievement in historical recreation. It\u2019s also the most refined example of Malick\u2019s visual poetry, which he developed through Badlands, Days of Heaven<\/i> and The Thin Red Line<\/i>. He has a meditative style all his own that will aggravate many viewers who prefer straightforward narrative and conventional Hollywood flourishes. He\u2019s not an entertainer so much as he is a poet who uses pictures instead of words. Creation itself pours forth speech, as the psalmist says, and Malick invites those with eyes to see to look closer and listen carefully.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Observant film critic Jeffrey Overstreet recommends Terrence Malick’s The New World for our Thanksgiving viewing. He shares his insights into the extended cut version and a personal encounter with Malick’s father. The New World is an extravagant achievement in historical recreation. It\u2019s also the most refined example of Malick\u2019s visual poetry, which he developed through … Continue reading Recommending ‘The New World’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}