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	Lee Tamahori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lee Tamahori, born 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand, is best known as a film director although he got his start as a commercial artist and photographer in the late 1970s.
		Tamahori is of Maori ancestry, and his break as a filmmaker came with Once Were Warriors (1994), a gritty depiction of urban Maori life that was phenomenally successful in New Zealand.
		Tamahori's next film was the sequel to XXX (2002), entitled XXX: State of the Union/XXX: The Next Level (2005) starring Ice Cube and Willem Dafoe; he replaced the original director, Rob Cohen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lee_Tamahori (275 words)

	Along Came A Spider
		Lee Tamahori joined the New Zealand film industry in the late '70s as a boom operator and became an assistant director a decade later.
		Tamahori's next film was the crackerjack survival thriller The Edge (1997) and featured winning performances from Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin and even Hollywood's premiere ursine actor, Bart the Bear.
		Tamahori used the opportunity to cleverly pay tribute to the film's precursors in several visual homages and generally updated the franchise for the 21st century.
	www.tnt.tv /title/0,,343674-5141,00.html (263 words)

	Fine Line Features \| Once Were Warriors \| Synopsis and Production Notes
		This debut film by Lee Tamahori has become a tremendous success in its native New Zealand, the highest-grossing film in the country's history, surpassing The Piano and Jurassic Park.
		Brown worked intensively with producer Robin Scholes and director Lee Tamahori on restructuring the narrative, during which Beth reevaluates her life as she questions her decision to stay with Jake and reconnects with her cultural heritage.
		Both Lee Tamahori and producer Robin Scholes had Rena Owen in mind while reading the novel and felt that Owen was the only actress who had the kind of emotional intensity and power the character required.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /warriors/wasynops.htm (716 words)

	The Edge . Weekly Alibi . 10-06-97
		Director Lee Tamahori's new film The Edge may not have provided me with all the answers, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.
		Director Lee Tamahori, meanwhile, is really coming into his own as a filmmaker.
		Part of this is Tamahori's old-fashioned style, and he can't be called entirely to task for it.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/alibi/e/edgethe1.html (926 words)

	Lee Tamahori - The Weekend Australian
		In which case Tamahori’s first feature, Once Were Warriors, the intensely powerful New Zealand film which cost less than $2 million to make, was against the grain while Mulholland Falls, his new film for MGM at $US34 million ($42.7 million), is right up his alley.
		Within a year of Warriors premiere, Tamahori was directing a Hollywood cast headed by Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith and John Malkovich in a film that he says actors such as Rob Lowe and Bruce Dern were falling over themselves to play mere cameos in, and the likes of Aaron Neville were eager to sing for.
		MGM and producer Richard Zanuck chose Tamahori for Mulholland Falls after seeing Once Were Warriors partly for his being an economically efficient director, but chiefly because the overriding impression Warriors left on it’s audience was it’s depiction of violence, and Mulholland Falls is also a violent film.
	www.debbiekruger.com /writer/freelance/tamahori.html (1973 words)

	Flying Fish - Lee Tamahori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lee Tamahori joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970’s, becoming an assistant director in the early 1980’s.
		Lee’s first American feature was “Mulholland Falls.” The film is a gritty and powerful crime drama starring Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palmintieri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Jennifer Connelly, Andrew McCarthy and John Malkovich.
		Lee’s latest feature “Along Came A Spider’” has just been released by Paramount Pictures and it is another installment of the Alex Cross detective thrillers written by James Patterson.
	www.flyingfish.co.nz /the_directors202/directors_cvs/lee_tamahori_cv.php (916 words)

	Cage By Page : Next News & Previews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lee Tamahori will direct the action-thriller based on a story from sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick.
		Tamahori is now finishing up his direction of the Ice Cube starrer XXX: State of the Union.
		But we’re sure Cage and Tamahori will pull a rabbit out of the hat with their next that is Next.
	www.cagebypage.com /abouthismovies/news_previews/next.html (661 words)

	Lee Tamahori
		Born to a Maori father and a British mother, Tamahori cut his teeth in the New Zealand film-industry as a boom operator in the late '70s, moving on to assistant director on such features as Maori-themed Utu (1983) and The Quiet Earth (1985) in the early '80s.
		Tamahori would go on to become a successful director of commercials before discovering Alan Duff's raw and controversial novel Once Were Warriors, which inspired him to attempt an adaptation for his first feature.
		Following Die Another Day, Tamahori would become involved with yet another franchise when he was announced as the director of XXX2, with his name also attached to such films as The Stanford Prison Experiment, Risk Addiction (formerly Basic Instinct 2), Deathlok, and The Guide, which reunited the director with Die Another Day starlet Halle Berry.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P194015 (472 words)

	Die Another Day Review Movie Review Film Die Another Day: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rick Yune, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Filmmaker Lee Tamahori inherits the desired assignment to helm what appears to be the 20th installment of the Bond series in the sharp-witted and bouncy offering Die Another Day.
		Tamahori's edition may have been tweaked to present Bond more as an anti-hero/outsider but he also knows when to rely on the standby sensationalism that has catapulted Agent 007 in the pop cultural stratosphere for well over a generation now.
		Overall, Tamahori dishes out a potent mixture of traditional and fresh elements that give this bounteous Bond flick a cherished surge it needs if it's going to take on the new age of capturing the action-packed imaginations of moviegoers for the 21st century.
	www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_member_review.jsp?id=958 (1896 words)

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		Opening on what looks like a lovely landscape, the camera pulls back, revealing that it's a billboard, an advertisement for an imaginary other universe, one which is immediately contrasted with its urban setting: the buzz, trash, and traffic that fills a New Zealand city street.
		Tightly structured, to the point of (an emotionally effective) neatness, Riwia Brown's screenplay advocates a return to a traditional, tribal sense of coherence, while remaining sympathetic to the daily pressures of contemporary conditions.
		Tamahori says that the problems here are not so much based in racism, but in class oppressions.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/once-were-warriors-fuchs (904 words)

	IGN: Lee Tamahori and James Patterson Talk About Along Came a Spider
		For New Zealand native Lee Tamahori, the film's director, the challenges in adapting Along Came a Spider were completely different than Patterson's – although he approached them with a similiarly philosophical perspective.
		That left Tamahori in the position of a director-for-hire on the project, a role he seems comfortable with, even after making more personal and less-mainstream movies.
		In that spirit, Tamahori found himself in the midst of one of the most common (and controversial) elements of big-budget studio filmmaking: the test screening.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/050/050972p1.html (769 words)

	Die Another Day / Production Newsflash 06 / A Chat With The Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Warmed only by my amusement at the wildly inaccurate speculations over my identity on various web sites, I’ve been watching our director, Lee Tamahori, hard at work and thought it was time to have a chat with him.
		Lee has had to become a master of time management.
		Lee started in the film industry of his native New Zealand and perhaps it is his time as an assistant director in the 80's that has made him so efficient in his planning.
	www.jamesbond.com /bond20/newsflash/newsflash_06.php (414 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Die Another Day Movie Review
		When you add a pair of Oscar winners (Halle Berry and Judi Dench), a kinetic director (Lee Tamahori) and a recent rejuvenation of the spy genre with the likes of XXX and the TV show Alias, an entry like Die Another Day shouldn't lose.
		Tamahori refuses to linger in any one place for long and has great fun with some of the big set pieces, from a crackerjack opening scene on the North Korean border to a fencing match gone spectacularly awry.
		Tamahori's witty approach masks it for a time, but sometime during the second hour it becomes clear how much of a snow job it is.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /dieanotherday.html (798 words)

	The Lee Tamahori Picture Pages
		As a result, its director, Lee Tamahori, who is, himself of mixed Maori and European descent, was plucked by Hollywood to direct "Mulholland Falls", the 1996 feature starring Nick Nolte and focusing on the "Hat Squad," a 50s Los Angeles Police Department elite mob-busting crime unit.
		Tamahori began his film career as a boom operator in the late 70s, then, in the early 80s, was an assistant director on numerous New Zealand feature films.
		During a ten-year period, Tamahori directed more than 100 commercials, including spots for Mobius in the US, and was particularly acclaimed for his storytelling style.
	www.superiorpics.com /lee_tamahori (290 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - XXX: State of the Union -- Lee Tamahori - DVD - Special Edition / Wide Screen / ...
		Lee Tamahori, Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman
		What neither of them knows is that the mastermind behind this plot is General George Deckert (Willem Dafoe), a highly decorated officer who believes President James Sanford (Peter Strauss) too weak to deal with challenges from international enemies.
		Director Lee Tamahori steers this testosterone-fueled juggernaut with admirable skill, establishing plot points with a bare minimum of detail to allow more time for a succession of pulse-pounding action sequences.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?btob=Y&cds2Pid=3208&ean=43396102064 (637 words)

	The Edge \| Director, Mr. Lee Tamahori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		LEE TAMAHORI received worldwide acclaim for his feature film directorial debut, the powerful drama Once Were Warriors.
		Tamahori's first American feature was Mulholland Falls, starring Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Chris Penn and Chazz Palmintieri.
		Describing himself as a "classic hybrid," born to a Maori father and a European mother, Tamahori joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator, before becoming an assistant director in the early 1980s.
	www.foxmovies.com /theedge/tamahori.html (283 words)

	Lee Tamahori
		Born to a Maori father and a European mother in New Zealand, Tamahori started his career as a commercial artist and photographer.
		In 1994, Tamahori received worldwide acclaim for the powerful drama Once Were Warriors.
		Following work on the hit television drama series, The Sopranos, Tamahori returned to features with the thriller Along Came a Spider (2001) starring Morgan Freeman, followed by the highly successful James Bond flick Die Another Day (2002) starring Pierce Brosnan, and the action thriller XXX: State of the Union (2005) starring Ice Cube.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=5208 (305 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Lee Tamahori - 1996 - Mulholland Falls Movies Review
		I’ll go into Tamahori’s plethora of blunders in a minute, but first I want to point my guns at the film’s scribes, Peter Dexter and Floyd Mutrux.
		In addition to all its own faults, Mulholland Falls is the victim of three factors beyond its control: Chinatown, LA Confidential, and Mulholland Drive.
		Tamahori’s film is unfortunate enough to share a similar (though far more tedious and dull) plot with the first movie, a similar release-date with the second, and a similar title to the third.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10003343 (1001 words)

	Amazon.com: Once Were Warriors: DVD: Kerr Bell,Temura Morison,Rena Owen,Lee Tamahori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The director of Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori presents a raw, compelling portrait of how the colonization and disruption of indigenous cultures really destabilizes and destroys communities of native peoples.
		Tamahori does this without pointing fingers or even mentioning colonizers; rather, he focuses on the victims of the tragedy of displacement and subjugation.
		Tamahori made no attempt to make a feel-good movie.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002CZJPM?v=glance (899 words)

	Salon \| "The Edge"
		Director Lee Tamahori ("Once Were Warriors," "Mulholland Falls") shoots action well, and the chaotic, obscenity-filled moments when the plane falls out of the sky and crashes into a lake are harrowing.
		The pilot is killed; Morse, Green and Green's assistant, Stephen (Harold Perrineau) manage to survive, but they're lost in forbidding country and no one back in civilization knows where they are.
		Tamahori and Mamet's aim is to transcend the action genre by setting up a tense, ambiguous relationship between Morse and Green, in which Green's intentions (does he want to kill Morse or not?) remain nerve-wrackingly obscure while the men struggle to get out alive.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/1997/10/00edge.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 (856 words)

	Lee Tamahori @ Filmbug
		Lee Tamahori received worldwide critical acclaim for his feature film directorial debut, the powerful New Zealand drama Once Were Warriors.
		His first American feature was Mulholland Falls, starring Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri and John Malkovich, followed by The Edge star ring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.
		Tell us what you think of Lee Tamahori in the Filmbug forum...
	www.filmbug.com /db/36624 (158 words)

	The Edge . Newcity Chicago . 10-27-97
		Tamahori recovers nicely from the shambles of "Mulholland Falls" with this David Mamet-written boy's-own adventure in the wilds of Canada.
		After a plane crash, Rupert Murdoch-like billionaire Anthony Hopkins is pitted against the wilds and Alec Baldwin, a fashion photographer and competitor for trophy wife Elle Macpherson's affections.
		Hopkins' billionaire works with a writer's mind, dredging up anecdotes and untested theories to figure out the next step that may get them out of the forests before starving or being eaten by grizzlies.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/e/edgethe1.html (205 words)

	FilmStew.com • Paramount Has Deathlok on Lee Tamahori
		Die Another Day helmer Lee Tamahori has signed on to direct a film about a super hero rather than a super spy.
		Tamahori is represented by International Creative Management and the law firm Armstrong Hirsch Jackoway Tyerman and Wertheimer.
		In the past he did Along Came a Spider for Paramount and is currently working with the studio on The Guide.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6364 (215 words)

	Lee Tamahori Forum @ Filmbug
		Lee Tamahori (Sun Sep 5, 2004 7:49pm ET)
		Tamahori did a great job when directing Once Were Warriors.
		Tamahori could have made a great classic Bond film if the story wasn't that much over the top.
	www.filmbug.com /db/36624-8 (198 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Die Another Day [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Berry may be the first Bond girl with an Oscar on her shelf, but she's still stuck with a bad hairdo as well as having to endure 007's worst chat-up lines.
		The first disc includes two separate commentaries: an interesting, enthusiastic technical one with Tamahori and producer Michael Wilson, and a blander drone from Brosnan with input from "bad girl" actress Rosamund Pike.
		Lee Tamahouri is a maddeningly variable director, and too often its his weaknesses on display here.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JLBE (1608 words)

	Halle Berry \| Lee Tamahori \| Martha Coolidge \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		According to the Hollywood Reporter, Coolidge is negotiating to direct Berry in ''Brown Eyed Girl,'' a contemporary romantic drama for MGM.
		Coolidge directed the actress in 1999's HBO film ''Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,'' which won Berry an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her role as Dandridge, the first fl actress nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, the award that Berry became the first fl actress to win earlier this year.
		Tamahori, who directed Berry as Bond girl Jinx in ''Die Another Day'' (due Nov. 22), has signed on to direct her in ''The Guide,'' according to the Reporter.
	www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,361825~1~0~,00.html (357 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Lee Tamahori: MAIN
		Shattering international audiences with Once Were Warriors (1994), his intensely scrutinizing study in urban alienation among the indigenous Maori...
		Lee Tamahori - movies, photos, video, biography, interviews, awards, news, filmography, credits.
		Director Lee Tamahori An Interview with Warriors Director Lee Tamahori.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=194015 (190 words)

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