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Jun 14, 2024 · Thirty years after breaking through with his debut feature Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori has made The Convert, a film that completes a trilogy he always intended to make – without knowing exactly what it would be about. Warriors catapulted him into Hollywood, a step that, then aged in his mid-40s, he was more than ready to take.
18 hours ago · Arriving shortly on the 2024 movie schedule, director Lee Tamahori’s The Convert allowed him to finally achieve something he’s been working toward for 25 years. This achievement was the New ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Mark down this modest, yet engrossing historical drama as a welcome return to form for Lee Tamahori, a New Zealand filmmaker who has often lost his way since bursting on the world stage with the classic Once Were Warriors in the 1990s.
Jun 29, 2024 · Matariki has been made all the more special with the release of a potent new local film called Ka Whawhai Tonu or 'Struggle Without End'. Set in Waikato...
Jun 19, 2024 · The film is the latest chapter in the Maori chronicles director Lee Tamahori began 30 years ago with the brutal domestic drama Once Were Warriors. Mahana (also known as The Patriarch), a story about a family feud in the 1950s, came along in 2016.
Jun 20, 2024 · Guy Pearce stars as a British preacher caught up in 1830s Māori wars in The Convert, a sweeping historical drama. Pioneering, legendary New Zealand director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors ...
Jun 21, 2024 · The Māoris is a complex society with intricate geopolitical problems an idealist priest cannot solve. And that’s the wonder of the script, co-written by Tamahori with Michael Bennett and Shane Danielsen – it tries to reverse the role of the white saviour into a completely irrelevant one.
