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www.epinions.com - : The Killing Fields deserved its Academy Award for Chris Menges's cinematography. You feel that are there in Phnom Penh as it falls to the insurgents, and that you are with Pran as he struggles for survival in the 'killing fields'. Filmed in Thailand, the depiction of Cambodia's rivers and forests is both beautiful and deadly. more...
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65/1
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www.filmcritic.com - : People never really got the message about Cambodia that they did about Vietnam. Thanks to movies like The Killing Fields the story can be told, and in fine form. Sam Waterston plays New York Times Sydney Schanberg, who's angrily covering the war from the front lines, but the film (and the Oscar, ultimately) belongs to Haing S. Ngor, who plays Dith Pran, Schanberg's Cambodian translator and assistant. more...
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4/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The American experience in Southeast Asia has given us a great film epic (APOCALYPSE NOW) and a great drama (THE DEER HUNTER). Here is the story told a little closer to the ground, of people who were not very important and not very powerful, who got caught up in events that were indifferent to them, but never stopped trying to do their best and their most courageous. more...
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4/4
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