Has anyone seen The New World? Though as a writer, i'm willing to cut Hollywood a lot of slack about inventing stuff for a better story, I can't imagine why Malick did some of the things he did-- from the truly bizarre emptiness of Native American rituals to the virtual absence of wild-life anywhere around the landscape to the sweet english graveyard in which Pocahontas is buried....all of it seems silly and flat and incredibly long. others? Louise Bernikow To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html