The Killing Fields

What Bush didn't know about Cambodia.

"...vocabulary new terms like 'boat people,' 're-education camps,' and 'killing fields.'" – President George W. Bush, addressing the Veterans..."

Aug. 23, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Killing Fields, Kind Of

A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse

"...surrounded by 100 acres of cow pasture and hay fields, the place came with a big garden plot, an..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

City of Joy

"...between colonialism and going native. In his films The Killing Fields and The Missionary, he falls off on one..."

April 17, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Ghost and the Darkness

"...soldier who now spends his time traversing the globe killing big game for sport. The film is fine up..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Babylon

Four decades later, this gritty and earnest recounting of black British life keeps all its power

"...In a gritty, grimy London (exquisitely captured by The Killing Fields cinematographer Chris Menges), he's the dilemmas and challenges..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lean on Pete

Equine tale is a lot deeper than the cheesy subject suggests.

"...route, and never, ever letting the movie enter the killing fields of the corny or cliched. Aided and abetted..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Captivity

Captivity, wherein 24's Elisha Cuthbert is abducted and tortured, is the kind of film that gives torture porn a bad name; it's just soulless, hateful, and freakishly monotonous.

"...that it was directed by Oscar-nominated director Joffé (The Killing Fields) and co-written by Larry Cohen (Phone Booth, Cellular)..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Goodbye Lover

"...classic film noir conventions to modern-day whodunits, Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission) constructs an intricate house of cards..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Some Mother's Son

"...Son finds George disengaging from, and rising above, the killing fields to consider the pathology of war itself. At..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Jennifer Eight

"...love interest. Robinson, who wrote the screenplay for The Killing Fields, seems to have a knack for this, and..."

Nov. 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monster in a Box

"...shooting of his small role in the movie The Killing Fields. There, his impressive powers as a storyteller became..."

June 12, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

CrissCross

"...of affecting moments and small intimacies. Oscar-winning cinematographer (The Killing Fields, The Mission) turned director has a good eye,..."

May 29, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

Tracing horror's evolution from the camp-serious bastions of Roger Corman to the post-countercultural killing fields of The Last House on the Left and on

"...Vincent Price's gothy Poe pictures to the crimson-soaked, post-countercultural killing fields of The Last House ..., The Texas Chain..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

The Glass Shield

In this often overlooked film by Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, To Sleep With Anger), a black cop in an all-white police station confronts racism from his colleagues and incredulity from his family and community

"...circle as an outsider. Also blackballed is Deputy Deborah Fields (Petty), who is not only the first female in..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

Murder City reads like a nightmare, a recurring one, and not just because of its horrific subject matter

"...Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fieldsby Charles Bowden Nation Books, 352 pp., $27.50..."

April 2, 2010 Books Review by Cindy Widner

The Green Mile

"...wasn't until Shawshank that he returned to work the fields of the author's fertile characterizations. Say what you will..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Funan

French animation gives translucent life to a family history of surviving the Khmer Rouge

"...brutality of the seminal Western cinematic depiction, 1984's The Killing Fields, but that makes it no less impactful...."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: Billpocalypse!

Bills start dying as sine die draws near; schools get new A-F grading system; and more

"...fell on May 14. After a slow session, the killing fields were already deep, but the biggest victim was..."

May 22, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Hosts a Class of 1984 Reunion

He who controls the past controls the future of Alamo programming

"...a top-notch time for American cinema. Amadeus and The Killing Fields found mainstream success and then divided the Oscars..."

April 4, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

There Be Dragons

Roland Joffé wrote and directed this drama set during the Spanish Civil War in which one of the protagonists is Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá.

"...recently canonized saints. Writer/director Roland Joffé (The Mission, The Killing Fields), in his usual style, locates the personal dramas..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Thief

"...has shot it (with cinematographer Chris Menges of The Killing Fields), both Nice and Bob have seen better days,..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Occasionally a bit preachy with its critique of advertising or the Eighties commodity mindset, How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a still-relevant satire about an ad man who sprouts a talking zit on his shoulder.

"...the same league with Robinson's Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Killing Fields, How to Get Ahead certainly has its moments...."

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Review by Jennie Kennedy

Regret to Inform

Sonneborn has captured the horror of the Vietnam conflict from an angle as yet unexplored, that of the women left behind. Sonneborn travels to the place of her husband's death in Vietnam with a film crew to retrace his final days.

"...as an official American war, Sonneborn traveled to the killing fields with a film crew and retraced her husband's..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gray's Anatomy

"...about his experiences during his acting stint in The Killing Fields, or about more mundane, personal situations such as..."

July 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Scarlet Letter

"...Amy Wright and Robert Prosky. If Roland Joffe's (The Killing Fields, The Mission) version of The Scarlet Letter had..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

DVDanger: Crawlspace/Sightseers

This week's horror lesson: Can't stay home, don't dare risk leaving

"...the people in the caravan park are on a killing spree?..."

Dec. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...surprise, that he has a genuinely natural talent for killing. Despite this, he finds himself unable to shake a..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...surprise, that he has a genuinely natural talent for killing. Despite this, he finds himself unable to shake a..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

sxswf: Reel Crime, Real Victims

Phil Anselmo, Hart Fisher talk pain and punishment

"...depictions of true crime are inevitable. Her movie The Fields (a fictionalized history of the infamous Killing Fields body..."

March 26, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Scanlines

Antonia's Line

"...Gray relates his experiences during the filming of The Killing Fields, in which he had a minor role. Along..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Screens Feature

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