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Terrence Malick’s fourth feature (made between The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life) looks better and better with each passing year. Now it can be seen in a new 4K digital restoration of an extended cut (never released to theaters) that is 37 minutes longer than the general-release version. This poetic, meditative look at the creation of the Jamestown settlement in 17^th-century Virginia stars Colin Farrell as Captain John Smith, Q'orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas, and Christian Bale as settler John Rolfe. Like Malick’s previous clash-of-cultures sagas, The New World is understated, elliptical, and suffused with the sublime beauty of the natural world. With Christopher Plummer; cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki. Blu-ray. 172 min.