GREAT SCENES
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2006)

A moment that comes to mind whenever I pause and reflect on the passing of another year, and the promise of a new one. Something about Wagner’s Vorspiel humbles me so.

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What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (Four Quartets)

GREAT SCENES
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)

Heralded by Richard Wagner’s Rheingold Prelude, the Jamestown Expedition arrives at the shores of Virginia in 1607. Emmanuel Lubezki’s cinematography accentuates one of cinema’s most rapturous opening sequences.