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The Killing Fields holds a 93% rating and an average rating of 8.30/10 at the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 40 reviews, with the consensus: "Artfully composed, powerfully acted, and fueled by a powerful blend of anger and empathy, The Killing Fields is a career-defining triumph for director Roland Joffé and a masterpiece of cinema."
Haing Somnang Ngor (Khmer: ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ; March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian-born American actor.He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Cambodian-American journalist Dith Pran in the biographical drama film The Killing Fields (1984).
Roland Joffé (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ f eɪ /; [1] born 17 November 1945) is an English film and television director, producer and screenwriter.He is known for directing the critically-acclaimed films The Killing Fields (1984) and The Mission (1986), both of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the latter winning the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
The film was mostly filmed in Medan (pictured 2009). The Act of Killing came to be when Oppenheimer and co-director Christine Cynn went to a Belgian-owned palm plantation nearby Medan, where the female workers were asked to spray the plant killer herbicide to their body; the film that came out of it, The Globalisation Tapes (2003), documents their worries on making a union against the system ...
The website's consensus reads: "Texas Killing Fields is a competent boilerplate crime thriller, brewing up characters and plots used in better films." [6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 49 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [7]
Al Rockoff (born 1946) [1] is an American photojournalist made famous by his coverage of the Vietnam War and of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital.He was portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields by actor John Malkovich, although he has never been happy with this portrayal. [2]
A flood and a landslide hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing 14 people, officials said Saturday. Torrential rain pounding the area since Thursday triggered a landslide in Luwu district in ...
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